Nostalgia Quotes

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

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.

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

If someone wants to run a campaign about '90s nostalgia, it's not going to be very successful.

Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.

To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace.

This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.

Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

Nostalgia wouldn't begin to capture your sense of loss, ... The Way We Really Are Coming to Terms With America's Changing Families.

They remember when their parents went out there, had picnics on the Beck's Mill grounds. It was the nostalgia of it.

An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.

The mists of nostalgia color memory.

You see, when you're young and foolish it doesn't matter where you may be, you always think that you'll be happier somewhere else.

I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.

The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.

Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.

When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.

If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window.

People gravitate towards their own era, nostalgia therapy is a real thing that's being tinkered with.

Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.

The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.

A good antidote to nostalgia is to go home, and then you remember why you left.

I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.

Nostalgias were peeled from it long ago.

There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

I just really gravitate towards a nostalgia for a time when things were simpler. When beauty was more classical and glamorous.

I didn't just write about boys and relationships like usual. I wrote about other things: rock 'n' roll, nostalgia, Hello Kitty.

I have no sense of nostalgia. Tomorrow is what interests me.

If you've traveled independently through Tibet, Brandon Wilson's Yak Butter Blues will bring back memories...this lively memoir is sure to provide a yak-scented whiff of nostalgia.

Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.

Nostalgia could be considered a disease because you're living now.

Without Ukraine, Russia's imperial aspirations are essentially nostalgia, but it's not a real policy.

Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.

I cannot think of a thing that was better in those good old days.

Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.

I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.

For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.

December is a month that is rife with nostalgia. If there's anything deep in your heart that you want to keep buried, you can count on December to bring it to the surface.

Nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.

Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with glorious misery.

There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia.

Nostalgia paints a smile on the stony face of the past.

My nostalgia is for the impossible.

Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.

Remember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important.

Every time I open the drawer, it's a trip down Memory Lane, which, if you don't turn off at the right exit, merges straight into the Masochistic Nostalgia Highway.

Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met.

1980's: not a time period but a state of mind.

Some say that time is like water that flows around us (like a stone in the river) and some say we flow with time (like a twig floating on the surface of the water).

How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.