Nostalgia Quotes

...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.

I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it.

The fall or scrapping of a cultural world puts us all into the same archetypal cesspool, engendering nostalgia for earlier conditions.

Huck Finn. Loss of identity drives people to nostalgia. Electronic man has no physical body, so he [Jimmy Carter] puts nostalgia in its place.

There's too much rock that relies a fetishism or nostalgia for the old ways. That's a real enemy to music.

I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like “Midnight in Paris.” Nostalgia isn’t so enticing.

. . .I really ought to have recognized it for what it was and, perhaps, to have stopped right there - for it was nostalgia, and what inspires nostalgia has been dead a long time

I was very surprised how many people were earnestly reminiscing about the '80s. It's such a stupid thing to do, like, to be honestly invested in nostalgia. It never even occurred to me to do that.

Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.

The essence of nostalgia is an awareness that what has been will never be again.

Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.

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.

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

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

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

Sad memories often contain an element of nostalgia.

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.

Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.

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.

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.

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.

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

As life speeds by, nostalgia has a shorter pregnancy. Games still in progress are given the straight-to-sepia status of "Instant Classics" no matter how oxymoronic that phrase appears.

I weaned myself on the nostalgia equivalent of methadone (less addictive, less obvious, less likely to make you crazy): missing what I had never had.

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.

For us, the best time is always yesterday.

What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much of a bad press.

I've decided to do what I want to do in life and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided not to participate in any sort of nostalgia in which I'm marginalized as a pop icon of yesteryear.

I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

As one of my older friends says, "Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be." Let's take a stab at it, anyway.

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

When I'm on a red carpet I want somebody to feel something when they look at what I'm wearing, when they look at the entire ensemble, whether it be nostalgia or excitement, you know?

it's good to have things done withwhen they don't workit's also good not to hateor even forgetthe person you've failed with.

The memories: they are the reality.

The terrible thing is that it's impossible to tear the past out by the roots.

There is no greater sorrowThan to recall a happy timeWhen miserable.

Allie sighed. It was an old yellow sound, like turning pages.

Do you know why they call me the Count? Because I love to count! Ah-ha

The head which does not turn backwards towards horizons that have vanished contains neither thought nor love.

She had forgotten his faults as we forgetthe sorrows of our departed childhood.

Nostalgia can be more painful than a surgeon's knife.

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise.

But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward.

What seems real one moment is fiction the nextand gone out of existence the moment after that.Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth, and change our only constancy.

The thing about memories wasn't that many of them inevitably faded, but that repeated recall of the ones you remembered burnished them into shining, gorgeous lies

I guess everybody thinks about old times, even the happiest people.

There are many forms of love as there is moments in time, and you are capable of feeling them all at different stages of your life.