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Nostalgia Quotes by Milan Kundera
- In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
- The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
- Which doesn't mean, of course, that I'd stopped loving her, that I'd forgotten her, or that her image had paled; on the contrary; in the…
- 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…
- How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is…
- Nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return
More Nostalgia Quotes
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every… — Brooks Atkinson
- A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you. — Brigitte Bardot
- There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something… — Michael Ian Black
- Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days. — Doug Larson
- Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. — Albert Camus
- Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing… — Albert Camus
- I am endeavoring to steer gymnastics out of a dead end that satisfies only a handful of short-sighted individuals with nostalgia for… — Bruno Grandi