Nostalgia Quotes

322 Nostalgia quotes by 255 unique authors

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
While I occasionally enjoy a bout of nostalgia, I would generally rather dream forward than backward. — Robert Breault
Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden. — Thalassa Cruso
When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning. — Jean Baudrillard
If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time. — Art Buchwald
There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia. — Joan Didion
What healthy religion is saying is that the real life is both now and later. You have to taste the Real first of all now.… — Richard Rohr
There is a lovely warmness about feelings of nostalgia as though in one's head one is putting on a pair of comfy old slippers and… — Bill Geist
In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a symbol of blue- collar nostalgia… — Serge Schmemann
Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and… — Walt Disney
For me, growing up in hip-hop culture, it's all about having the next style, the new fashion, the new way to express yourself, the fly… — El-P

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