Old Days Quotes

“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction.”
― Clark Zlotchew

“When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was even blacker. It was a slick, oily blackness that glowed and reflected the moonlight like a black jewel. Ed saw the tiny specks of light around the edges of the bay where he knew ships must be docked, and at different points within the bay where vessels would be anchored. The lights were pale and sickly yellow when compared with the bright blue-white sparkle of the stars overhead, but the stars glinted hard as diamonds, cold as ice. Pg. 26.”
― Clark Zlotchew, Once upon a Decade: Tales of the Fifties

“Everyone thinks that the old days were better, or that they were harder, and the modern times are chaotic and complex, or easier all around, but I think people's hearts have always been the same, happy and sad, and that hasn't changed at all. It's just the shapes of lives that change, not the lives themselves.”
― Brian Doyle, Mink River

“So don't let nobody tell you any different about the old days. Life is hard now, nothing but suffering, but some kinds of suffering is easier to bear than others.”
― Justina Ireland, Dread Nation

“Emil was already familiar with those people who always say, “Goodness, everything was better in the old days.” And he no longer listened when people told him that in the old days the air was cleaner or that cows had bigger heads. Because it usually wasn’t true. Those people simply wanted to be dissatisfied, because otherwise they would have to be satisfied.”
― Erich Kästner

“In those days, at least in my small town, parents didn't seem to worry so much about what their kids were doing as long as they made it home in time for dinner.”
― K. Martin Beckner, Chips of Red Paint

“A little later, as we talked of the Maniot dirges by which I was obsessed, I was surprised to hear this bloodshot-eyed and barefoot old man say: “Yes, it’s the old iambic tetrameter acalectic.” It was the equivalent of a Cornish fisherman pointing out the difference, in practicality incomprehensible dialect, between the Petrachian and the Spenserian sonnet. It was quite correct. Where on earth had he learnt it? His last bit of information was that, in the old days (that wonderful cupboard!) the Arabs used to come to this coast to dive for the murex.”
― Patrick Leigh Fermor, Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese

“As strange as the new days seemed to us at first, the old days would come to feel very quickly the stranger.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles

“Sometimes people think the old days were better than today. Even though life was simpler and slower, it was not necessarily easier.”
― Eraldo Banovac

“The ring of the old telephones, the clacking of typewriters, milk in bottles, baseball without designated hitters, vinyl records, galoshes, stockings and garter belts, black-and-white movies, heavyweight champions, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants, paperback books for thirty-five cents, the political left, Jewish dairy restaurants, double features, basketball before the three-point shot, palatial movie houses, nondigital cameras, toaster that lasted for thirty years, contempt for authority, Nash Ramblers, and wood-paneled station wagons. But there is nothing you miss more than the world as it was before smoking was banned in public places.”
― Paul Auster, Winter Journal

“In the old days, even the most inconsequential people were impressive. You don't hear such stories these days, do you?”
― Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book

“When I was a kid…We believed it was butter, and we drank whole milk.
Now, coffee, cheese, flour, oil, sugar, salt, beer, and ice cream are bad for us, and we should eat foods that are improved, no-fat, lo-cal, lite, organic, unsaturated, decaffeinated, artificial, or taste awful, and contain enough dyes and preservatives to look appetizing and last a long time in their pretty packaging that is 43% of their retail cost figuring in advertising.”
― Mike Bove

“She told me once she envied the women who lived back in the good old days who only had to worry about Indians and mountain lions killing their husbands. Something about those things being beyond a wife's control.”
― Tawni O'Dell, Back Roads

“Fifty year old wealthy man resents twenty five year old middle class man, without recalling that 25 years back even he was a poor man.”
― Amit Kalantri

“It’s such a shame. So many people today rely on their cellphones. No one remembers phone numbers anymore.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“The difficult we do now.
The impossible takes a little longer.”
― Siena McNair, Swinging in the Rain

“Penance, prayer, power none is capable of killing the past.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“These legends,' murmured Pizarro, 'which of us can say if they're true or not? So many memories come to as though from out of the fog. Sometimes I wake up in the morning convinced that I'm in my village in my beloved Extramadura, making a bell, absolutely sure that that's what I've done all my life. Then I remember where I am, and what I've seen, and I become old again.”
― Antoine B. Daniel, Incas: The Light of Machu Picchu

“Let's take a selfie."

"We can't; our phones are dead, remember? We'll just have to have the memory in our hearts like the old days.”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“In the olden days, at least, they knew when to stop. "
"Now they don't any more. In the olden days they had some shame as well."
"Yes, now they ain't got no shame either.”
― Valentin Rasputin, Money for Maria and Borrowed time: Two village tales

“أتمنى أن يرجع ذاك الزمان في هذا الزمان.”
― Ali Nasser (Bu Mayed), يلا شردة

“I wish the old days, come back these days.”
― Ali Nasser (Bu Mayed), يلا شردة

“بين سطور هذه القصة، سوف نرجعكم إلى زمن الحياة البسيطة، زمن الطيبين، وحياة الذكريات الجميلة.”
― Ali Nasser (Bu Mayed), يلا شردة

“Between the lines of this story, you will be taken to the time of simple life, simple people, & the life of beautiful memories.”
― Ali Nasser (Bu Mayed), يلا شردة

“الله على أيام البساطة”
― Ali Nasser (Bu Mayed), يلا شردة

“Oh God, how I miss the days of simplicity.”
― Ali Nasser (Bu Mayed), يلا شردة

“When his mentor spoke of the old days, the knights were heroes, not outlaws, and knowing right from wrong, good from evil seemed as natural as breathing. Nowadays, the once clear waters of morality had grown brackish. The country was fractured, one man’s admiration was liable to garner you another man’s animosity.”
― J.R. Potts, Gathering of the Crimson Cloaks