Top 100 Quotes About Nostalgia
#1. The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.
Milan Kundera
#2. I don't do nostalgia. The phrase 'the good old days' never passes my lips.
Nicholas Haslam
#4. Our love had been liking; our feelings had been ordinary, not Shakespearean. I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia. I
Rachel Cohn
#5. Because it never went away. Nostalgia suggests that feelings are coming back, and they can't do that, when they never went away.
R.K. Lilley
#6. Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
Albert Camus
#7. Every time I see my cat licking its asshole I think about my ex wife. But that's how nostalgia works, right? We only remember the best of the available memories.
Jarod Kintz
#8. 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
#9. Nostalgia is the only acceptable form of sadness.
Will Advise
#10. Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up against the heart, that world, and against the face. No indoors or outdoors, only everything touching us, and the grown-ups lumbering past overhead like constellations.
Denis Johnson
#11. What is love but a nostalgia for someones history? Their boyhood haunts and sullen adolescence, their teenage trips cross-country and fights with their fathers and especially their old lovers?
Darcey Steinke
#12. Nostalgia is a side effect of dying.
John Green
#13. Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.
Robert Morgan
#14. NW is full of split selves, people alienated from the very things they thought defined them. Their nostalgia
for old movies, old songs, buses they don't ride anymore
is less a salve than a form of pain.
Christian Lorentzen
#15. Soviet-era nostalgia has strong support among the people. But not among the elite and, in my opinion, not with the president. We are not interested in keeping remnants of the communist era alive.
Vladislav Surkov
#16. Parents bobble between a nostalgia-infused yearning for their children to play and fear that time spent playing is time lost to more practical pursuits.
Robin Marantz Henig
#17. I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
Ian Schrager
#19. Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination
a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight.
Walt Disney
#20. Nostalgia used to be called mal du Suisse - the Swiss sickness.
Christian Rudder
#22. Nostalgia is recall without the criticism of the present day, all the good parts, memory without the pain. Finally, nostalgia asks so little of us, just to be noticed and revisited;
Carrie Brownstein
#23. There are bands that I got into when I was 15, when I was mad at my dad and just wanted to be different. I don't think I'd give those bands half a chance now. But I hold some kind of nostalgia for them that I won't let go. Bands like Minor Threat and Black Flag.
Pete Wentz
#24. I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is different in small towns, and frankly, it is different.
Nicholas Sparks
#25. Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.
Lana Del Rey
#26. Nostalgia doesn't make sense, because it's like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I'm inside my memories the same way I'm inside my everyday life.
Agnes Varda
#27. Hollywood is in love with any kind of nostalgia that can prove itself to be commercial.
Dan Aykroyd
#28. Speed is simply the rite that initiates us into
emptiness: a nostalgic desire for forms to revert to immobility, concealed beneath the very intensification of their mobility. Akin to the nostalgia for living forms that haunts geometry.
Jean Baudrillard
#29. I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.
David Cassidy
#30. Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.
Raymond Aron
#31. Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?
Dennis Cooper
#32. Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.
Vladimir Nabokov
#33. I remember the old Times Square from when I was younger, and there was a seedy thrill to it. Some of that is gone, which I have a little bit of nostalgia for.
Janeane Garofalo
#34. Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#35. The pessimist's nostalgia, deteriorism goes far beyond simply whining that things used to be better and takes the bold stance that the world is actively and energetically going to hell in a handbasket. also
Ammon Shea
#36. She often felt a nostalgia for the present, aware that her life was passing by faster than she could properly take it in. She lived it, she felt it; she had given nothing to age, she still wanted everything; but she could not make it whole or coherent.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#37. I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful.
Max Von Sydow
#38. I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia, fear of unknown animals, food fantasies, nocturnal emissions, hobbies, choice of radio program, changes in out look and so forth.
Vladimir Nabokov
#39. I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened.
Pete Hamill
#40. We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has been lost can motivate serious historical inquiry; it can also cast a powerful light on the present.
T. J. Jackson Lears
#41. 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
#42. Her hot attire did not signify promiscuity - contrary to the consensual interpretation of the other male teachers - but a kind of nostalgia: this was what she used to wear when she was happy, when she used to live the normal
Aleksandar Hemon
#43. I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.
Andy Summers
#44. Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.
Pablo Neruda
#45. I feel like my songs are very relevant and very meaningful, but I literally have to get rid of the nostalgia for shows because I would just be mess on-stage otherwise.
Ellie Goulding
#46. People look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful white male
Jon Hamm
#47. Nostalgia is eternal for Americans. We are often displaced from our origins and carry anxious memories of that lost past. We fear losing our bearings.
Gregory Benford
#48. Little moments nostalgia
does not have to extol, because they were already nice to begin with.
Fiona Maazel
#49. The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.
Edmund White
#50. Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.
Bil Keane
#51. A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature.
Steven Pinker
#52. Nostalgia was nothing more than dissatisfaction with the present. Anything looked better than now, even harder times. It was a fantasy that people accept.
V.C. Andrews
#53. Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just
well
being sad.
Linda Lael Miller
#54. She wasn't a victim of fate, she was running her own risks, pushing beyond her own limits, experiencing things which, one day, in the silence of her heart, in the tedium of old age, she would remember almost with nostalgia - however absurd that might seem.
Paulo Coelho
#55. I think whatever generation you're in has a nostalgia for the generations past and the generations you weren't in.
Meghan Daum
#56. The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall, the walls surrounding a medieval castle: obsolete walls evoke nostalgia. Make your walls obsolete.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
#57. It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
Frank Zappa
#58. One of the grandest creations of the New South was a mythical concept of an Old South. What people take to be an epoch was a matter of mere decades of pretension and an exercise in irrational nostalgia.
Paul Theroux
#59. The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things.
Richie Benaud
#60. Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give us warm comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evolutionary purpose could nostalgia serve?
Julian Barnes
#61. I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future.
FM-2030
#62. For what else is nostalgia but this? That immense ache in the heart that seems immeasurable, massive, spilling over the future that longs for things that can no longer be. (Foreword to Exie Abola's Trafficking in Nostalgia)
Rica Bolipata-Santos
#63. 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
#64. Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either
Garrison Keillor
#65. Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.
Alice Childress
#66. The age of recording is necessarily an age of nostalgia
when was the past so hauntingly accessible?
but its bitterest insight is the incapacity of even the most perfectly captured sound to restore the moment of its first inscribing. That world is no longer there.
Geoffrey O'Brien
#67. We were good together. Not in retrospect, not out of nostalgia. Not in anticipation. But here and now good. Very good.
Eshkol Nevo
#69. The ache became longing, longing became nostalgia, nostalgia became fondness, and after a while he could see the funny side of it. A long while.
Charlaine Harris
#70. From about 5 years old on, I was very contemplative and started to become constantly filled with nostalgia for the present moment and the feeling that it's always fleeting.
Alex Ebert
#71. Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.
Georges Bernanos
#72. The dreadful nostalgia for a wasted life,
the fatal feeling that you were born too late,
or the restless hope for an impossible morning
with the nearby restlessness of the flesh's ache
Federico Garcia Lorca
#73. I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
Harrison Ford
#74. Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
Doug Larson
#75. It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.
Ted Koppel
#76. She had a nostalgia for a life she had never lived.
Nancy Lemann
#77. I'd learned to feel nostalgia for my own youth while I was living it.
Edmund White
#78. As a band, it's just me trying to please my own basement-hardcore sensibilities that I grew up with. It's not actually the future of anything, it's totally nostalgia.
Geoff Rickly
#79. 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
#80. 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.
Michael Ian Black
#81. 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
#82. Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.
Agnes Varda
#83. 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
#84. The fiending for a state of stasis, for the safety of childhood and the nostalgia of the madeleine in the tea or an eternal library is not too far removed from the desire for death. The idealizing of the past is a kind of death.
John Thomas Allen
#86. He is already past the high point in his life and coming down on the other side. By next week he'll be nostalgia. He's 12 years old, and it's over for him.
Tony Kornheiser
#87. Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.
Julio Cortazar
#88. I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that world. I do not want to be the person I am now in that world then. None of the forms nostalgia can take fits. I found childhood boring. I was glad it was over.
Alan Bennett
#89. 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
#90. I couldn't remember the last time I'd felt so wrapped up in someone that I saw only him, caring not a jot what onlookers might think. I ached with nostalgia for a younger, more responsive me, who seemed to feel things more intensely.
Catherine Sanderson
#91. ... I could feel a nostalgia for the evening already setting in, a longing for the existence of this night building before my eyes.
Deirdre Shaw
#92. This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of "memory," not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future in one complete contemplative knowing.
Richard Rohr
#93. The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as asults, to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
Adam Phillips
#94. Those who wanted to sleep, not from fatigue but because of the nostalgia of dreams ...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#95. Her tone spoke less of nostalgia than reproach, of feelings long coveted and repeated whenever she had the chance.
Cesar Aira
#96. And suddenly I was just eaten by nostalgia, for a past that wasn't mine.
Maggie Stiefvater
#97. Nostalgia is the bane of rock 'n' roll. He had the courage to let it all hang out ... He was a considerable talent.
Jim DeRogatis
#98. If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#99. When I drive into Augusta and down Magnolia Lane, there's just a spirit and nostalgia about it that you experience nowhere else. Why? Because it's the same place every year.
Billy Casper
#100. Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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