Nostalgia Quotes

322 Nostalgia quotes by 255 unique authors

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… — Milan Kundera
The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as asults, to our grudge against our… — Adam Phillips
In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access;… — John Edward Williams
Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will,… — Mohsin Hamid
I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia. — David Levithan
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks… — Octavio Paz
There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time. — Emile M. Cioran
I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect. My gift, or fatal flaw, is for nostalgia. I have sometimes been accused… — Tana French
She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Republican party is the party of nostalgia. It seeks to return America to a simpler, more innocent and moral past that never actually existed.… — Jon Stewart
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. — Stan Kenton
I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any… — Kate Adie
Politicians generally act as if there is no cost to reconnecting with voters by building new New Deals. But the whole exercise of writing law… — Amity Shlaes
Hollywood is in love with any kind of nostalgia that can prove itself to be commercial. — Dan Aykroyd
As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my… — Thelma Golden
I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in… — Alan Bennett
My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh? — Joan Baez
I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgia, and that old America. What… — Unknown Author
The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things. — Richie Benaud
I remember the old Times Square from when I was younger, and there was a seedy thrill to it. Some of that is gone, which… — Janeane Garofalo
A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive… — Steven Pinker
My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims… — F. Sionil Jose
Nostalgia for dead tyrants and the longing for heroes are unhealthy, and they can result in the deification of a Saddam as easily as a… — Rory Stewart
Periods of nostalgia are impossible to predict or explain. — Russell Smith
I understand the nostalgia of having paper to feel and smell when you read it, but I would rather have fond memories of newspapers that… — Jasika Nicole

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