Nostalgia Quotes

The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.

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

I never felt so large and important as I did when being in love was everything. I saw you walking a foot above the earth and I remembered that was where I used to walk.

...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.

I would never see her again, except in memory. She was here, and now she's gone. There is no middle ground. Probably is a word that you may find south of the border. But never, ever west of the sun.

Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.

The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all.

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

It's not like I'm all into nostalgia and history, it's just that I can't stand the way things are now

He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.

The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else's nostalgia

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

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.

Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.

Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.

Americans continue to visit Paris not just for Paris, but for ‘Paris.’ As if out of some collective nostalgia for what Paris should be, more than what it is. For someone else’s memories.

Sad memories often contain an element of nostalgia.

Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.

Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.

In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go.

While I occasionally enjoy a bout of nostalgia, I would generally rather dream forward than backward.

The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things.

I just hope the film [Aquarius] doesn't feel overly nostalgic because too much nostalgia for me leads to depression. I think Clara is very pragmatic.

Children who were very truly pious in a Catholic childhood are apt to retain a nostalgia for the absolute.

Advice is a form of nostalgia.

Nostalgia: How long's that been around?

The whole nostalgia thing, and just sticking with what you always liked and what you know and not taking a chance on something or expanding. I think especially after a certain age.

The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.

When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.

For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.

We describe [Paper Girls] as Stand By Me meets Terminator.It's a story about nostalgia and childhood, but with an action-packed, sci-fi bent.

I love the feeling of nostalgia vying with the present. That can be from song to song, or within the same song.

I am endeavoring to steer gymnastics out of a dead end that satisfies only a handful of short-sighted individuals with nostalgia for an era gone by.

Musicals are finally kind of coming back to a degree, perhaps out of a sense of nostalgia.

It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken.

Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!

At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be--for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past--is nearly overwhelming.

I believe that white frame house is worthy of more than a nod of nostalgia, because the values President Clinton learned there and in Hope formed the core of his political philosophy.

If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I've got this problem with nostalgia.

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else.

You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.

This is what happened when one left one's home - pieces of oneself scattered all over the world, no one place ever completely satisfied, always a nostalgia for the place left behind.

Nostalgia is, 'Hey, remember the other mall that used to be there?'

Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.

You had to pick up a landline to make sure your best friend wore a matching outfit to school. I do remember people talking more. Nostalgia is dangerous, though.

As far as my personal nostalgia zone goes, I find I watch more of AntennaTV than anything else.

I think - I don't know, maybe it's nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be - it's gone. It's going to be gone.

I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that's vanished - the England of my childhood has actually disappeared.

My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?