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I think it's necessary to keep moving forward. I've always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.
— Cillian Murphy
Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Nostalgia is an illness
for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia. — Zeena Schreck
for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia. — Zeena Schreck
... nostalgia is, by definition, the least authentic of all feelings.
— Enrique De Heriz
Periods of nostalgia are impossible to predict or explain.
— Russell Smith
For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. I think it's just a natural human response to loss.
— Michael Chabon
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
After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed's dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor.
— Joseph Brodsky
Alecto isn't a person! He's just something that society made and then threw away, a memory that refuses to die.
— Rebecca McNutt
We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.
— John Thorn
The greatest memories a person might have in their life is, childhood. It's really a painful nostalgia.
— Lathish R. Shankar
I get emotional when young people get nostalgic about my work. That's why it's called nostalgia. Sometimes I even cry.
— Mithun Chakraborty
It's very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much before we have nothing left to build on.
— Joss Whedon
To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children.
— Perry Nodelman
Nostalgia wouldn't begin to capture your sense of loss, ... The Way We Really Are Coming to Terms With America's Changing Families.
— Stephanie Coontz
We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over.
— Nina LaCour
They remember when their parents went out there, had picnics on the Beck's Mill grounds. It was the nostalgia of it.
— Larry Nelson
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
You know what nostalgia is, don't you? It's basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
— Bette Davis
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
There's too much rock that relies a fetishism or nostalgia for the old ways. That's a real enemy to music.
— Matt Tong
It's not like I'm all into nostalgia and history, it's just that I can't stand the way things are now
— Novala Takemoto
It's a bitter nostalgia from a moment not yet passed.
— Christina Baker Kline
If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window.
— Charlie Chaplin
The end of anything is not fun because there's a nostalgia to it and everything else. Even the end of a bad relationship can feel so, so, so sad.
— Jessica Capshaw
Fitzgerald has charm. It's a silly word, but it's an exact word for me. I like 'The Great Gatsby' and it's sad, gay nostalgia.
— Truman Capote
The essence of nostalgia is an awareness that what has been will never be again.
— Milton S. Eisenhower
Nostalgia: How long's that been around?
— Bill Bailey
There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia.
— Joan Didion
A classic unspoken agreement among escapees from a small town: don't look back, don't be each other's anchors, no nostalgia.
— China Mieville
What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much of a bad press.
— Terry Eagleton
Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature and my love of film.
— Jonathan Lethem
It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.
— Karl Lagerfeld
If someone wants to run a campaign about '90s nostalgia, it's not going to be very successful.
— Jeb Bush
I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.
— Lou Reed
I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
— Vince Vaughn
There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.
— David Guterson
So when I said I'd miss him, I meant I would miss what we had not experienced, and I don't know what that's called: nostalgia for what didn't happen.
— Lionel Shriver
It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back
— Bill Vaughan
One is always at home in one's past...
— Vladimir Nabokov
Nostalgia can be more painful than a surgeon's knife.
— Anurag Shourie
It's a strange grief ... to die of nostalgia for something you you will never live.
— Alessandro Baricco
Dachux: It's not like in the old days where you could kill a hogre or two, and nobody asked questions.
— C.D. Sutherland
In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
— Milan Kundera
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
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
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
For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.
— Bret Michaels
Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.
— Derek Walcott
We all know the sound a camera makes when it snaps a picture. Even some of the digitals do it for nostalgia's sake.
— Jay Asher
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
1980's: not a time period but a state of mind.
— Carrie Vaughn
Remember this ... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important.
— Gary Shteyngart
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
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
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
— T. S. Eliot
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
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
Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.
— Angela Carter