Nostalgia Quotes

Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.

A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?

I hate nostalgia, it's laziness with prettier accessories.

I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.

Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.

Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

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.'

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.

Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia at all.

Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature, and my love of film...

No nostalgia runs deeper than that for something one has never known and now cannot obtain.

As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth.

I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.

Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just--well--being sad.

He is already past the high point in his life and coming down on the other side. By next week he'll be nostalgia. He's 12 years old, and it's over for him.

I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.

The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.

The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.

Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.

I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.

We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future.

I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is different in small towns, and frankly, it is different.

I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade because if every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.

I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.

Soviet-era nostalgia has strong support among the people. But not among the elite and, in my opinion, not with the president. We are not interested in keeping remnants of the communist era alive.

I remember when I used to be really into nostalgia.

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either

I hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it.

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.

There are no days more full than those we go back to.

What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.

The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.

In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.

You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home

For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.

The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.

I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future.

The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret.

Nostalgia is the bane of rock 'n' roll. He had the courage to let it all hang out. ... He was a considerable talent.

I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.

I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia.