Nostalgic Quotes · Page 5

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

— Lisa Loeb

Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of…

— Larry McMurtry

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

— Feist

“I find myself becoming increasingly nostalgic for the past, but after all I suppose that is the only thing one can be…

— James Rozoff

The symbolism of certain foods trip the nostalgic wire in all of us, whether the context is cultural heritage or geographic location.

— Melissa Leong

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…

— Mark Gatiss

Smartphones are so fabulous in so many ways that it seems daft to be nostalgic about the days when an image did…

— Suzy Menkes

I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.

— Douglas Coupland

If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something…

— Michael Ian Black

“It would be a den for overgrown children looking for an indulgence, something nostalgic, something simultaneously luxurious and youthful. Much like a…

— Meg Donohue

I'm not super nostalgic for friendships I've lost along the way. I feel like, if they were truly meaningful and really special,…

— Katie Aselton

That person who's going to a concert for a nostalgic reason, we're not really going to placate. We still play three or…

— Bruce Hornsby

“Nostalgia. It haunts us, it destroys us, and sometimes, its sentimentality consumes us piece by piece so that we may realize our…

— Bryant A. Loney

Watching 'Mahabharat' and 'Mahakali' on screen after so long really got me nostalgic! It was honestly wonderful and an emotional moment to…

— Sourabh Raj Jain

No particular music makes me feel nostalgic. If it's great, it just keeps me in the present moment. That level of music…

— Wynton Marsalis

“The Reaping by Stewart Stafford Paint a nostalgic landscape today, A harvest gifted once in this way, Stranger's yields come to pass,…

— Stewart Stafford

The trauma of 9/11 stimulated infinite possibilities for worry - some quite plausible, but most inspired by remote what-if fantasies. A society…

— William Greider

It's funny: not only with the title of the album but also the song [It's Decided]. I kind of felt nostalgic. The…

— Andy Kim

I think the relationship [in Aquarius] with her nephew shows that she's not nostalgic. She just wants to preserve what is important…

— Sonia Braga

I'm not a nostalgic person for the glory days of 8-track sales at the local K-Mart. But there's a little bit of…

— Tim Hecker

I get nostalgic for things that didn't really exist. I might have a cassette from the first time a Melle Mel track,…

— Rob Brown

My landscapes are not only beautiful, or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful.' By…

— Gerhard Richter

I'm not very nostalgic, you see. I just don't think anybody has that kind of thing anymore. By culture, by breeding, by…

— Manolo Blahnik

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…

— Jenny Hval

I like to add personal touches to my decorating style, including photographs and nostalgic items that remind me of family and home.

— Karlie Kloss

I'm too busy to be nostalgic, which is one of the reasons to keep busy. I'm not a very sentimental person.

— Frederick Wiseman

I wanted to give 'Droptops' away for free because it doesn't sound like my album. It's way more like a nostalgic Cool…

— Chuck Inglish

All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty…

— Haruki Murakami

I am not nostalgic for the past. And for me, being a museum curator was a childhood dream.

— Christian Lacroix

[My muse] feels nostalgic for Japan, and, perhaps strangely, for the pioneer days of America.

— Quentin S. Crisp

I was nostalgic even as a young man. Preferred listening to Opera not Bing Crossby.

— Ruskin Bond

My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the present. Always a bad sign.

— Jonathan Lethem

It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in…

— Robert Breault

I'm in general a nostalgic person, but I don't know if I'm nostalgic for the 80s!

— Kiki Smith

A good game will always snatch my attention. No matter the sport, the spirit of competition and audience is nostalgic and relaxing…

— Chuck Inglish

For whatever reason, I've always gravitated towards music that feels nostalgic or longing or beautifully tragic.

— Lauv

I get very sentimental, I get very nostalgic, and when I live in a place, I instantly put down way too many…

— Casey Affleck

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

— Rakim

“Just like that, he's gone. Things can change so quickly. One second you're in the present, the next you're remembering the past.”

— Janet Gurtler