Nostalgia Quotes
322 quotes by 255 authors
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What's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what…
— Federico Fellini
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Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me out of my…
— John Green
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Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
— Doug Larson
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Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savor life and to dream of the future.…
— Pope John Paul II
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You made us for yourself, Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. In this creative restlessness beats and pulsates what is…
— Pope John Paul II
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I thought I was the only one who still enjoyed his record collection, but after reading 'How Records Got Their Groove Back,' I happily discovered…
— Unknown Author
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I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.
— Lucy Grealy
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Few tears will be shed over the demise of the East German army, but what about East Germany’s eighty symphony orchestras, bound to lose some…
— Unknown Author
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I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.
— Kris Kristofferson
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At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be--for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past--is nearly overwhelming.
— Katrina Kenison
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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…
— Unknown Author
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This is what happened when one left one's home - pieces of oneself scattered all over the world, no one place ever completely satisfied, always…
— Tatjana Soli
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I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose, I wonder, of…
— Vikram Seth
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It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia…
— Jacques Derrida
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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…
— Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with glorious misery.
— Lynn Freed
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Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?
— Dennis Cooper
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Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.
— Cyril Connolly
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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…
— Chris Ware
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