Nostalgia Quotes

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.

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.

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

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?

Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.

For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.

A society that has made "nostalgia" a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.

I've never returned to the locations. I do remember certain days more clearly than others and certain locations with a sense of nostalgia. Perhaps one day, I'll bring my daughter to see them, if she's interested.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.

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.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

I hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.

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.

I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.

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