Quotes About Nostalgic

#1. Could you be nostalgic for a friendship that wasn't over yet or did the fact that you were nostalgic mean that it already was?

Brit Bennett

#2. When I smell pho, I just automatically think of my mom. All these nostalgic feelings and memories come rushing through my head.

Michelle Phan

#3. One day you will be nostalgic for today.

Lang Leav

#4. If I were a doctor, I would diagnose his condition thus: "The patient is suffering from nostalgic insufficiency.

Milan Kundera

#5. I'm a nostalgic guy.

Kevin Connolly

#6. I think a lot of times when people talk about merchants, it's almost a nostalgic look back at the time where the world moved at a very different pace, and information was very different.

Edward Lampert

#7. Proximity to this death makes me nostalgic for the French language.

Henri Cole

#8. We were, fair queen, /
Two lads that thought there was no more behind /
But such a day to-morrow as to-day, /
And to be boy eternal.

William Shakespeare

#9. Underwater madness slipping into a haze, drowning and choking in repugnant nostalgic thoughts.

Karen Quan

#10. You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.

Alex Haley

#11. I can be nostalgic for the past, and I can romanticize the future, but I cannot sugar coat the here and now. I think that's why I try not to think about it, and I think that's the exact same reason why I need to.

Ellie Rose McKee

#12. Most 'Monty Python' fans are, of course, baby boomers, who have long been a nostalgic lot and are growing more so as they totter toward old age.

Terry Teachout

#13. I know it's hard to blame the time, but there's a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. I think that 'Superman Returns' was a bit nostalgic and romantic, and I don't think that was what people were expecting, especially in the summer.

Bryan Singer

#14. To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future. I have no patience with that kind of attitude, whether it's on radio or among friends.

Neil Peart

#15. 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.

Mark Gatiss

#16. Never look back; you may only find what you left or let you go.

Stefanos Livos

#17. People talk about the 1960s in a nostalgic way, but to me it was terrifying. People were getting assassinated. There was Vietnam. There were race riots. It felt like everything was going to get blown up sky-high. It didn't feel like flower power. It felt like Armageddon.

Sam Shepard

#18. I'm a nostalgic person and I really like rehashing and digging around the mental trunks.

Feist

#19. When you get divorced and you don't get the house (which I never did), you leave behind all sorts of things you don't have the sense to know you'll someday wonder about, or wish you still had, or, worst of all, feel genuinely nostalgic for.

Nora Ephron

#20. When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives.

Albert Camus

#21. Anything you think is wrong with your body at the age of thirty-five you will be nostalgic for at the age of forty-five.

Nora Ephron

#22. The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.

Adam Gopnik

#23. The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

J.G. Ballard

#24. It's nice to have been around long enough to be a part of people's lives. A lot of people who come to my show are real nostalgic for the '80s.

Sheena Easton

#25. I think, having done 'The Princess Diaries,' it was a fun experience, and it's cool to have made fans that are now into all this music. That movie is still so relevant to our culture. It's always on. It's kind of a rare, nostalgic thing. I get tweets all the time about it.

Robert Coppola Schwartzman

#26. If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#27. I am ever nostalgic for a childhood which I never had the pleasure of having.

Cheri Bauer

#28. I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun. But I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world.

John Darnielle

#29. for those memories are now
just like these little kittens
I hold in my hands

those can be kissed
and treasured
but not held too tightly.

Sanober Khan

#30. I get emotional when young people get nostalgic about my work. That's why it's called nostalgia. Sometimes I even cry.

Mithun Chakraborty

#31. Some stories are rooted in adventure, some in strife. Others are born of the heart, and the horrors and the joys locked therein are often immeasurable, and make us truly wonder what became of those children we once were.

David E. Hilton

#32. I am not nostalgic for the past.

Christian Lacroix

#33. Saudade.
A nostalgic longing to be near again to something or someone that is distant, or that has been loved and then lost; "the love that remains".

Anonymous

#34. A lot of people in their 30's get nostalgic for their teen years. Then they get jobs in TV, become bitter and jaded and prematurely old. Then they turn their nostalgia into great television.

Craig Ferguson

#35. I'm not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.

Agnes Varda

#36. I am nostalgic of an era I never knew.

Lana Del Rey

#37. There's "Bloodstains" by Agent Orange. "Rise Above" by Black Flag. "Streets of San Francisco" by the Swingin' Utters. "Gimme Danger" by Iggy and the Stooges.

Jason Myers

#38. I don't think of myself as a particularly nostalgic person.

Bill Ayers

#39. I think people are always nostalgic for a time about 20 years before they were born.

Lisa Loeb

#40. If we are indeed nostalgic for the weight of clock time, it is worth remembering that the standardized time that most of us know has only been around since the mid-nineteenth century. It was invented for the railroads.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#41. We were together. I forget the rest.

Walt Whitman

#42. You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.

Ira Sachs

#43. Nostalgia. It haunts us, it destroys us, and sometimes, its sentimentality consumes us piece by piece so that we may realize our once-familiar circumstance may never again return. It is a state of mind best indulged infrequently.

Bryant A. Loney

#44. This empty shell holds nothing but the echoes of what was.

Jenim Dibie

#45. Jesus becomes the captive of the hysterically religious, the chronically fearful, the insecure and even the neurotic among us, or he becomes little more than a fading memory, the symbol of an age that is no more and a nostalgic reminder of our believing past. To me, neither option is worth pursuing.

John Shelby Spong

#46. Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden.

Thalassa Cruso

#47. I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.

Pierre Boulez

#48. I miss Betty madly. I loved her. Whenever people talk about her, I get really nostalgic. There are parts of her still with me; I played her for four years and, of course, the lines get blurred.

America Ferrera

#49. I love how summer just wraps it's arms around you like a warm blanket.

Kellie Elmore

#50. There seems to be a real taste for the fantastical these days. People like to get back into their imaginations. Maybe there's something a little nostalgic about 'Grimm' and the fairy tales that they grew up with. And it's a very unique approach to the procedural side of things.

Sasha Roiz

#51. 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

#52. I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.

Eddie Vedder

#53. Josh: But colored lights are whimsical. I mean they're nostalgic
Lara Jean: Whimsical, Josh?

Jenny Han

#54. In time, foods such as hamburgers and ice cream became more than just meals. They became part of American history and culture, touchstones that are almost immediately nostalgic and sentimental no matter how old you are or what part of the country you are from.

Homaro Cantu

#55. I'm not nostalgic for my glory days in college. It was lame for me. Probably because I had no friends.

Alex Honnold

#56. I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.

Imelda May

#57. Like anyone nostalgic for a time he didn't live through, I chose to weed out the little inconveniences: polio, say, or the thought of eating stewed squirrel. The world was simply grander back then, somehow more civilized, and nicer to look at.

David Sedaris

#58. If I look at my work from the beginning it is more the idea of trying to establish a kind of material that one can work with for the future, rather than making nostalgic images to record something that will later become lost.

Thomas Struth

#59. I get very nostalgic for times and places and experiences, but I have a wonderful group of core friends and family who I love and adore, so I don't mourn the loss of any particular friendship. I think they're all part of a path, and the ones that really mean something are still important in my life.

Katie Aselton

#60. I love listening to old records to keep nostalgic feeling; it allows me to not lose the love for hip-hop.

Rakim

#61. When you're born, you're pure. Unspoiled and trusting. Some say, it's the only time we're perfect. You're also born covered in blood and placenta. No one gets nostalgic about that.

Christopher Titus

#62. The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money.

Rick Wright

#63. Rather than getting nostalgic ... embrace the new opportunities and challenges available to you now.

Richard Branson

#64. Smell is stimulating. It stirs things up and makes us nostalgic - a wonderful word which literally means 'ache for home' - which serves to inspire new circuits in the brain.

Lyall Watson

#65. I was so incredibly nostalgic for a life I knew I'd never, ever have again.

Paige Harbison

#66. I truly hope the future will bring me something to feel nostalgic about, because there's really nothing much so far I can remember fondly.

Elliott Smith

#67. It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia for the return to the most archaic place of absolute commencement

Jacques Derrida

#68. Living in the fifties America was in many ways like living in a public space that's suddenly emptied out, a theater after closing, or a classroom after school. The emptiness could feel liberating, but it could also make you feel blank and vaguely nostalgic.

James Harvey

#69. You can't live in the past, and I don't. I'm not nostalgic about my own work at all.

Elvis Costello

#70. I am getting nostalgic about this night and it hasn't even finished yet.

Laura Buzo

#71. The literature of imaginatiion, even when tragic, is reassuring, not necessarily in the sense of offering nostalgic comfort, but because it offers a world large enough to contain alternatives and therefore offers hope.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#72. I don't think the music that I do is nostalgic in any way; I don't think about going back to nice, old-fashioned music. I'm certainly influenced by old music, but I want to bring it slap-bang up to today.

Imelda May

#73. What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material.

Rick Moranis

#74. I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

David Bailey

#75. I love looking at the old Bond films. Maybe it's purely out of reminiscence, the nostalgic things you think about. But there were some very good films made, and I think that the public has enjoyed them, too.

Albert R. Broccoli

#76. I do not want to write beyond this point, because those days when I studied relentlessly are nostalgic to me; and on the other hand, I am sad when I think how I have become increasingly preoccupied with matters other than study.

Hideki Yukawa

#77. I don't like coming home. It keeps me from being nostalgic, which by nature I am. Even before the plane begins its descent, I find myself dreading the questions left unanswered by my childhood.

Stewart O'Nan

#78. we always knew
that good times came
with termination contracts
even if we weren't quite ready
to sign it.

Sanober Khan

#79. I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.

Ernest Cline

#80. His temperament was deeply nostalgic, not for for his own past, but for past ages; he was cynical of the present, fearful of the future and profoundly regretful of the world's decay.

Eleanor Catton

#81. I'm not really a nostalgic person.

Patti Smith

#82. I was so utterly content that I was slightly wistful. It was the feeling I got when I was about to finish a really great book. I was nostalgic for this moment even as I was still in it.

Noelle Hancock

#83. In a funny way, I like the past, I'm a very nostalgic person.

Elle Fanning

#84. I've never been good at being nostalgic, and I've never been able to focus on sound without having a voice that's very here-and-now.

Jenny Hval

#85. Too much time will do that to you. Blur the edges between your memories and your imagination until everything feels like something you saw in a movie instead of your life.

Kami Garcia

#86. For me, Lancome was more than just a brand. There was something very nostalgic about the name, about the whole story.

Alber Elbaz

#87. Nor am I nostalgic, as a French philosopher once wrote, for a lost poverty. I am nostalgic for the solidarity and sharing a modest existence can sometimes bring.

Alice Walker

#88. I'm nostalgic for a better tomorrow.

Brian Spellman

#89. I am not a nostalgic person.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#90. And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it.

Rosemarie DeWitt

#91. Smartphones are so fabulous in so many ways that it seems daft to be nostalgic about the days when an image did not go round the world in a nanosecond.

Suzy Menkes

#92. Is it possible to be nostalgic about old fears?

Peter Ackroyd

#93. I'm sure when I have a nostalgic, teary moment in 10 years time, I'll try to put the glasses when I was 10 on and cry to myself in front of the mirror

Daniel Radcliffe

#94. A strange breeze rustled through the clearing, temporarily overpowering the stink of trash and murk. It brought the smell of berries and wildflowers and clean rainwater, things that might've once been in these woods. Suddenly I was nostalgic for something I'd never knew.

Rick Riordan

#95. Books have a smell, for instance. One that gets better - more nostalgic - as the years go by. Does this gadget of yours have a smell?" "Nope,

Stephen King

#96. Usually, we have some of those nostalgic moments like, "Oh my god, I can't believe we survived that day," because filmmaking is such a wild roller coaster ride.

Catherine Hardwicke

#97. It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back

Bill Vaughan

#98. To be in the South in my first big job was very nostalgic. There is an energy to the way we do things in the South.

Anna Wood

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

Anurag Shourie

#100. We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over.

Nina LaCour