quotes about Nostalgia
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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
-- A. E. HousmanSource : A Shropshire Lad no. 40, l. 5 (1896)
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
-- Albert Camus -
It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived.
-- Alessandro Baricco -
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Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.
-- Andrei CodrescuSource : Andrei Codrescu (2006). “New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City”, p.195, Algonquin Books
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I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.
-- Andy Summers -
Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.
-- Angela CarterSource : Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books
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Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.
-- Brad MehldauSource : "Brad Mehldau's Opening, Middle And Endgame". Interview with Mike Brannon, www.allaboutjazz.com. October 7, 2003.
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Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.
-- Brené Brown -
For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.
-- Bret Michaels -
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
-- Carson McCullers -
As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means.
-- Chris Ware -
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
-- Dario Argento -
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There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook.
-- David BenioffSource : David Benioff (2005). “When the Nines Roll Over: And Other Stories”, p.73, Penguin
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I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.
-- David Cassidy -
There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.
-- David Guterson -
I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia.
-- David Levithan -
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Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?
-- Dennis Cooper -
Nostalgias were peeled from it long ago.
-- Donald JusticeSource : Donald Justice (2009). “Collected Poems”, p.160, Knopf
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Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
-- Doug Larson -
Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane.
-- Doug Larson -
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When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from now.
-- Edmund White -
There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.
-- Emile M. Cioran -
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 -
A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.
-- Evan Esar -
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Gide says the hell of this life is that between a hundred paths we have to choose only one, and live with nostalgia for the other ninety nine.
-- Fernando SabinoSource : Fernando Tavares Sabino (1967). “A time to meet”, Harvill Press
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True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
-- Florence King -
I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future.
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I have no sense of nostalgia. Tomorrow is what interests me.
-- Francois PinaultSource : "Lunch With François Pinault" by Jackie Wullschlager, www.slate.com. April 10, 2011.
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Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either
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If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I've got this problem with nostalgia.
-- Gary Numan -
Maybe I over-do the 'not-80s' thing. It should be a part of my life that I've got some sort of pride in, but I've got this huge chip on my shoulder about '80s nostalgia - and it annoys fans sometimes.
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Remember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important.
-- Gary ShteyngartSource : Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story”, p.21, Granta Books
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You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.
-- George McGovern -
Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.
-- Georges Bernanos -
Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.
-- Irving KristolSource : New York Times Magazine, December 20, 1964.
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Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?
-- Jasper Fforde -
Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.
-- Jeanne Moreau -
I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.
-- Jeanne MoreauSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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 -
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My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?
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After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed's dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor.
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Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.
-- Juan Ramon Jimenez -
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What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.
-- Julian Barnes -
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 -
I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.
-- Kabir Bedi -
At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be--for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past--is nearly overwhelming.
-- Katrina KenisonSource : Katrina Kenison (2013). “Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment”, p.10, Hachette UK
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They remember when their parents went out there, had picnics on the Beck's Mill grounds. It was the nostalgia of it.
-- Larry Nelson -
I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.
-- Lucy GrealySource : Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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I hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it.
-- Marc Ribot -
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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 -
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 -
To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace.
-- Mel Torme -
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
-- Michael Marcus -
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In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
-- Milan Kundera -
How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present? You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more
-- Milan Kundera -
The essence of nostalgia is an awareness that what has been will never be again.
-- Milton S. Eisenhower -
I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.
-- Mira NairSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I get emotional when young people get nostalgic about my work. That's why it's called nostalgia. Sometimes I even cry.
-- Mithun Chakraborty -
Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.
-- Miuccia Prada -
Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.
-- Ned RoremSource : Ned Rorem (2013). “Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary”, p.245, Open Road Media
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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 -
Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.
-- Pablo Neruda -
If there is any kind of legitimate ostalgia, it's for everything we've never even seen, the women we've never slept with, never dreamed of, the friends we haven't made, the books we've never read, all the food steaming in the pots we've never eaten out of. That's the only real kind of nostalgia there is.
-- Paco Ignacio Taibo II -
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The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else's nostalgia
-- Pete Hamill -
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 PasoliniSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met.
-- R. C. Sproul, Jr. -
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Things have gotten so bad in this country, you look back at Richard Nixon with nostalgia.
-- Ralph Nader -
Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.
-- Raymond Aron -
The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things.
-- Richie BenaudSource : Interview With Jim White, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2001.
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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 -
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While I occasionally enjoy a bout of nostalgia, I would generally rather dream forward than backward.
-- Robert Breault -
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.
-- Robert Smithson -
I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.
-- Robert Wyatt -
.. . . would I were In Grantchester, in Grantchester!
-- Rupert Brooke -
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I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.
-- Sam Shepard -
Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.
-- Shirley Temple -
Nostalgia is not what it used to be.
-- Simone SignoretSource : "Fictional character: Hector". "Hector and the Search for Happiness", www.imdb.com. 2014.
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It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken.
-- Steve Almond -
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
-- T. S. Eliot -
I weaned myself on the nostalgia equivalent of methadone (less addictive, less obvious, less likely to make you crazy): missing what I had never had.
-- Tana French -
It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.
-- Ted Koppel -
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Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.
-- Terrence MalickSource : "Terrence Malick Punched Out A Producer & 10 Other Things We Learned About ‘Badlands’" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. June 3, 2011.
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
-- Vikram Seth -
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 -
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Nostalgia is an illness for those who haven't realized that today is tomorrow's nostalgia.
-- Zeena Schreck -
When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.
-- Chris O'DowdSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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 RicklySource : "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.
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If you've traveled independently through Tibet, Brandon Wilson's Yak Butter Blues will bring back memories...this lively memoir is sure to provide a yak-scented whiff of nostalgia.
-- Hannah Nordhaus -