Nostalgia Quotes

322 quotes by 255 authors

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
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
Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days. — Doug Larson
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
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
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
I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for. — Lucy Grealy
Few tears will be shed over the demise of the East German army, but what about East Germanyâ€™s eighty symphony orchestras, bound to lose some… — Unknown Author
I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday. — Kris Kristofferson
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine? — Dennis Cooper
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
Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality. — Cyril Connolly
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

Who Wrote These Nostalgia Quotes

255 authors contributed a total of 322 Nostalgia Quotes, led by these top contributors: