Nostalgia Quotes

322 Nostalgia quotes by 255 unique authors

Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia. — Ted Koppel
I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia for the universal… — Roger Caillois
Gide says the hell of this life is that between a hundred paths we have to choose only one, and live with nostalgia for the… — Fernando Sabino
Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future. — Ned Rorem
The issue is Kinkade's ideology, and particularly his nostalgia; his paintings endlessly trumpet a nonexistent past when times were simpler and morality more pure. There's… — Paddy Johnson
The essence of nostalgia is an awareness that what has been will never be again. — Milton S. Eisenhower
A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained… — Don Cupitt
My idea is always to avoid nostalgia. — Miuccia Prada
Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually. — Miuccia Prada
Nostalgia is heroin for old people. — Dara O Briain
I think that all human systems require continuous renewal. They rigidify. They get stuff in the joints. They forget what they cared about. The forces… — John W. Gardner
Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met. — R. C. Sproul, Jr.
It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just… — Susan Sontag
Merrie Destefano storms the world of urban fantasy with AFTERLIFE, breathing new life into the vast genre of the undead. Gritty, poignant, in the tradition… — Tosca Lee
Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a… — John Steinbeck
There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our… — Muriel Barbery
If someone wants to run a campaign about '90s nostalgia, it's not going to be very successful. — Jeb Bush
I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught… — Mark Gatiss
The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret. — Elie Wiesel
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

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