Nostalgia Quotes

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

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest. — Robert Wyatt

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

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

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

It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia. — Ted Koppel

Preparing to go to school was like getting ready for extended deep sea diving. — Jean Shepherd

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

Nah, nostalgia is a side effect of dying," he answered. — John Green

Entering Malibu, I was overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia and long lost sadness, like seeing a home I had left a long time ago and had returned to. — Nick Mancuso

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 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. — Bruno Grandi

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

Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space. — Orhan Pamuk

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

If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin — Edna O'Brien

Nostalgia is a side effect of dying. — John Green

Nostalgia is heroin for old people. — Dara O Briain

I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future. — FM-2030

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's probably just an illusion. — Jo Brand

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

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity. — Robert Morgan

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

It shocks me how I wish for ... what is lost and cannot come back. — Sue Monk Kidd

Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future. — Ned Rorem

My idea is always to avoid nostalgia. — Miuccia Prada

Super 8 film is the language of silence. — Rebecca McNutt

Looking at old photographs inundates you with a flood of nostalgic emotions! And you can't be sure where you want to swim in the deluge of memories! — Avijeet Das

This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone. — Joyce Carol Oates

He's completely blown through his younger years like his childhood was one big cigarette to smoke carelessly. — Rebecca McNutt