Nostalgia Quotes
Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.
Things have gotten so bad in this country, you look back at Richard Nixon with nostalgia.
Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.
I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful.
I get emotional when young people get nostalgic about my work. That's why it's called nostalgia. Sometimes I even cry.
One day we're going to look back at $1,700 with nostalgia. People are going to be shocked at how inexpensive gold was when it could be snapped up for such a bargain price.
I feel like my songs are very relevant and very meaningful, but I literally have to get rid of the nostalgia for shows because I would just be mess on-stage otherwise.
I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in my socks.
Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.
Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.
It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past.
For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss.
Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.
Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.
Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.
If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.
I think it's necessary to keep moving forward. I've always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.
It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.
It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.
There’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in love with the way she haunts you.
This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever. But I'm not so interested in nostalgia. I'm interested in the future.
Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.
It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back
Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods.
Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.
I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.'
Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.
Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.