“The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.”
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
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Gabriel García Márquez 218
Colombian writer 1927–2014Related quotes
“Nostalgia is an illness
for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia.”
“Let your dreams be the reality of your tomorrow.”
Original: (it) Lascia che siano i sogni che hai ad essere la realtà del tuo domani.
Source: prevale.net
Letter to Gerald "Ching" Tyrrell, (11 November 1956), p. 28
1990s, The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)
Context: Hopes rise and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. The sound of music floats down a dark street.
A Short History of Decay (1949)
Variant: By capitulating to life, this world has betrayed nothingness... I resign from movement, and from my dreams. Absence! You shall be my sole glory... Let “desire” be forever stricken from the dictionary, and from the soul! I retreat before the dizzying farce of tomorrows. And if I still cling to a few hopes, I have lost forever the faculty of hoping.
