Nostalgia Quotes

322 Nostalgia quotes by 255 unique authors

However, I have never clogged myself with the praises of pastoral life, nor with nostalgia for an innocent past of perverted acts in pastures. No.… — Frank O'Hara
I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic system was (rightfully)… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Which doesn't mean, of course, that I'd stopped loving her, that I'd forgotten her, or that her image had paled; on the contrary; in the… — Milan Kundera
His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he'd gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover… — Lev Grossman
You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home — Sue Monk Kidd
...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart… — Sherman Alexie
Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space. — Orhan Pamuk
...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger. — Margaret Atwood
There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our… — Muriel Barbery
Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be? — Jasper Fforde
Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At… — Vladimir Nabokov
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home. — Novalis
We didn't think the library was funny looking in it's faux- Greek splendor, nor did we find the cuisine limited or bland, or the movies… — Audrey Niffenegger
Remember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important. — Gary Shteyngart
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
Nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia. — Stephen Chbosky
The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you. — Amy Bloom
how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet — Robert Browning
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… — Paulo Coelho
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old… — Joseph Campbell
We all know the sound a camera makes when it snaps a picture. Even some of the digitals do it for nostalgia’s sake. — Jay Asher
He remembered his mentor, Lou Kline, telling him in the nineties that rock and roll had peaked at Monterey Pop. They'd been in Lou's house… — Jennifer Egan
Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. — John Green
Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods. — Emile M. Cioran
Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and… — William Faulkner

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