Nostalgic Quotes
121 quotes by 115 authors
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Maybe I`m getting to the age when I`m starting to be senile or nostalgic or both, but people are so angry now. You used to…
— Clint Eastwood
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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
— Bill Watterson
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There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens…
— David Benioff
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She wonders if you can feel nostalgic for something before it's in the past, she wonders if perhaps her vocabulary is too small or if…
— Jon McGregor
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I'm not a very nostalgic person. I don't really look at the past and summon up regrets, or self-congratulations, it just is not a mechanism…
— Leonard Cohen
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The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did bird imitations…repeatedly, and…
— Daniel Handler
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Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those…
— Colum McCann
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Goodness was more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it stuck with them.…
— Colum McCann
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All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No…
— Haruki Murakami
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Like anyone nostalgic for a time he didn't live through, I chose to weed out the little inconveniences: polio, say, or the thought of eating…
— David Sedaris
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Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and…
— William Faulkner
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My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the present. Always a bad sign.
— Jonathan Lethem
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Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.
— Douglas Adams
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Unreal. I'm feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record.
— Barry Lyga
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He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven—at least in this life—was neither a time nor a place to be grasped and…
— Mary Balogh
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Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind.…
— Stephen King
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All these years I've had a story in my mind, the story about us that never really existed. And because of that story, I've kept…
— Cathleen Schine
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I’ll put it out there: I am scarred by the nostalgic indicipherability of my own desires; I an engulfed by the intimidating unknown, pushed through…
— Anne Sexton
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But there can be no grave for Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson...Shall they not always live in Baker Street? Are they not there this moment,…
— Vincent Starrett
Who Wrote These Nostalgic Quotes
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