Nostalgia Quotes
322 Nostalgia quotes by 255 unique authors
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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
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Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time, brush their teeth,…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are…
— Fernando Pessoa
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In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions that arose from time…
— Gregory Maguire
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Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just--well--being…
— Linda Lael Miller
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If the fall of man consists in the separation of god and the devil the serpent must have appeared out of the middle of the…
— Diane Arbus
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Every time I open the drawer, it's a trip down Memory Lane, which, if you don't turn off at the right exit, merges straight into…
— Sloane Crosley
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Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give…
— Julian Barnes
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for…
— Carson McCullers
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What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.
— Julian Barnes
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But I’ve been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don’t get soggy at the…
— Julian Barnes
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I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died…
— Bill Bryson
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There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about yourself. Your connection…
— Dan Chaon
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
— Vikram Seth
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The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of…
— Milan Kundera
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Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of…
— Azar Nafisi
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nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for Weak but detectable interaction between two neighboring universes that are otherwise not causally connected. Manifests itself in humans as a…
— Charles Yu
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It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived.
— Alessandro Baricco
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Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth,…
— Jean Baudrillard
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It marked the beginning and, of course, an end. At that moment a chapter, no, a whole stage of my closed. Had I known, and…
— Ian Mcewan
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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…
— Brené Brown
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Looking at the elementary schoolers in their colorful T-shirts from various day camps, Percy felt a twinge of sadness. He should be at Camp Half-Blood…
— Rick Riordan
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