Nostalgia Quotes

322 Nostalgia quotes by 255 unique authors

I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back. — Josh Radnor
I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine. — Lou Reed
I think - I don't know, maybe it's nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be… — Keanu Reeves
Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and… — Gary Ross
Nostalgia is, 'Hey, remember the other mall that used to be there?' — George Saunders
I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly… — Sam Shepard
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. — Robert Smithson
I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for… — Hunter S. Thompson
I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it. — Vince Vaughn
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. — Peter De Vries
Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia. — James Wolcott
I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest. — Robert Wyatt
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of… — William Butler Yeats
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
In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this need for an… — Eugene Ionesco
I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in my socks. — Groucho Marx
How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home. — William Faulkner
The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody felt sad as… — Stephen Chbosky
In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine. — Milan Kundera
These fragments I have shored against my ruins — Thomas Stearns Eliot
When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate… — Karl Lagerfeld
Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one… — John Green
Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even… — R A Salvatore
It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken. — Steve Almond
Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share. — Andrei Codrescu

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