Nostalgia Quotes

322 quotes by 255 authors

Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that… — Julio Cortazar
I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this need… — Albert Camus
Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess. — Juan Ramon Jimenez
I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot. — Umberto Eco
To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace. — Mel Torme
I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found there was a… — Martin Parr
I have no sense of nostalgia. Tomorrow is what interests me. — Francois Pinault
Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village. — Derek Walcott
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.… — Frank Zappa
Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly. — Robert Hass
Everything with me is normal except when I pitch (in Fenway Park). When I pitch here it's a little different. There is a little more… — Tom Glavine
It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures. — Ally Condie
Today I live on an island, in a house that is sad, hard, severe, that I built for myself, solitary on a sheer rock over… — Unknown Author
I hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it. — Marc Ribot
The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else's nostalgia — Pete Hamill
I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days. — Kabir Bedi
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait… — Anatole Broyard
It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back — Bill Vaughan
Remembrance of things past. — William Shakespeare
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to… — Florence King

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