Nostalgia Quotes

322 Nostalgia quotes by 255 unique authors

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 Germany’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
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

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