Nostalgia Quotes
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Nostalgia Quotes & Sayings
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Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
... nostalgia is, by definition, the least authentic of all feelings.
— Enrique De Heriz
Periods of nostalgia are impossible to predict or explain.
— Russell Smith
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
— Michael Marcus
The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.
— Edward Hirsch
Nostalgia, it's nothing but pain," Robert said. "It's memory poisoned by the anguish of loss.
— Laird Barron
We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.
— Chris O'Dowd
nostalgia, the "if onlys" can be dangerous. It
— Cathy Lamb
This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.
— John Thorn
Nostalgia is a longing for your home.
— Will Advise
To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children.
— Perry Nodelman
Nostalgia, as always, had wiped away the bad memories and magnified the good ones. no one was safe from its onslaught.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Mr. Nostalgia figured he could look it up later if he wanted to break some small, previously unbroken place in his own leaf-buried heart.
— Michael Chabon
We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over.
— Nina LaCour
I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.
— Jeanne Moreau
Some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The I-Remember-Whensters lumbered in with their musty catalogues of the bygone, dragging IVs of distilled nostalgia behind them on creaky wheels,
— Colson Whitehead
We're afraid to move on, that's why there's so much nostalgia on the internet ... 'cause we don't wanna look forward, that's scary.
— Donald Glover
I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia.
— John Green
There is a hopeless longing for nostalgia that pervades the human soul, a return to the warm glow of remembrance or some imagined past.
— Deborah L. Norris
The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.
— Agatha Christie
What it is is the memory of a dance
a song you heard long ago
to hear it is to be young again
and for once
for once you are happy — Julio Alexi Genao
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?
— Julio Cortazar
Yet the place was strangely old-fashioned. The strongest feeling I got from New York at first was nostalgia. A 1930s vision of the future.
— Michael Moorcock
My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?
— Joan Baez
1980's: not a time period but a state of mind.
— Carrie Vaughn
I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
— Van Morrison
Sometimes life is a constant battle against the nostalgia of a time that can never be real again.
— Jason Myers
Those who wanted to sleep, not from fatigue but because of the nostalgia of dreams ...
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.
— Kris Kristofferson
I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
— David Bailey
I have no sense of nostalgia. Tomorrow is what interests me.
— Francois Pinault
When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.
— Jean Baudrillard
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.
— Honore De Balzac
And suddenly I was just eaten by nostalgia, for a past that wasn't mine.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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.
— Robert Breault
To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace.
— Mel Torme
No nostalgia is felt as keenly as nostalgia for things that never existed. I
— Rabih Alameddine
College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.
— Rick Perlstein
Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.
— Brad Mehldau
When Jesus said, "Do this in remembrance of me" (1 Corinthians 11:24) he was not prescribing a periodic slug of nostalgia.
— Frederick Buechner
I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.
— Lucy Grealy
Nostalgia is a side effect of dying.
— John Green
Nostalgia is heroin for old people.
— Dara O Briain
The essence of nostalgia is an awareness that what has been will never be again.
— Milton S. Eisenhower
Most childhoods are full of anxiety, but that tends to get smoothed over, so you have a sense of nostalgia.
— Romesh Gunesekera
Any time gone by was better.
— Jorge Manrique
The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things.
— Richie Benaud
In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
— Milan Kundera
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.
— Kamila Shamsie
The memory of the past did not redeem the future, as he insisted on believing.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
We paw at nostalgia even before we hit twenty, wanting a holiday that never happened, a wholesomeness that could not survive in the wild.
— Thomm Quackenbush
How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.
— Graham Swift
I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like 'Midnight in Paris.' Nostalgia isn't so enticing.
— Meshell Ndegeocello
The mists of nostalgia color memory.
— Ken Tucker
Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.
— Angela Carter
I believe we should only think of the past if it helps improve the present. If not, it's pure nostalgia.
— Edney Silvestre
For us, the best time is always yesterday.
— Tatyana Tolstaya
Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.
— Joe Abercrombie
We were good together. Not in retrospect, not out of nostalgia. Not in anticipation. But here and now good. Very good.
— Eshkol Nevo
As one of my older friends says, "Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be." Let's take a stab at it, anyway.
— Warren Buffett
For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.
— Eduardo Galeano
You can't return to a place that no longer exists, luv.
— Samantha Sotto
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.
— Thelma Golden
Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.
— T. E. Hulme
Things have gotten so bad in this country, you look back at Richard Nixon with nostalgia.
— Ralph Nader
I remember when I used to be really into nostalgia.
— Demetri Martin
Remember this ... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important.
— Gary Shteyngart
I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.
— Umberto Eco
I hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it.
— Marc Ribot
Nostalgia is the intimate refuge of every man and every woman in a world seemingly gone mad.
— John Larkins
People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.
— Haruki Murakami
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
— Albert Camus
The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.
— Amy Bloom
For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.
— Bret Michaels
You may say, But wasn't this the Sixties? Yes, but only for some people, only in certain parts of the country.
— Julian Barnes
My idea is always to avoid nostalgia.
— Miuccia Prada
Super 8 film is the language of silence.
— Rebecca McNutt
