Nostalgia Quotes

322 quotes by 255 authors

I suddenly recall the arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass-gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed; as though snuffed… — Ralph Ellison
The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm. Dreams never come true, and the instant they are shattered,… — Natalia Ginzburg
It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past. — Robert Breault
Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia… — John Cheever
We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated,… — Jean Baudrillard
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley
It is easy to recollect the good things of life, the times when one's heart rejoices and expands, when everything is enfolded in kindness and… — Oliver Sacks
The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit… — Juan Ramon Jimenez
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. — Angela Carter
I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to… — Laura Lippman
I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like 'Midnight in Paris.' Nostalgia isn't so enticing. — Meshell Ndegeocello
For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act. — Bret Michaels
Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and… — Carolyn Heilbrun
What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much of a bad press. — Terry Eagleton
Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past. — Peter Carey
Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming. — Sherman Alexie
When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost… — Nicole Krauss
Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past. — Olga Kurylenko
We are so habitually nostalgic by now that we anticipate looking back in the midst of enjoyment, look forward to watching the videos we're taking… — Deborah Tall
I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and best-looking image capture… — Rian Johnson

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