Family Quote by Chris Kraus

“Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human, to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were.”

— Roxane Gay

“Nostalgia is possibly the greatest of the lies that we all tell ourselves. It is the glossing of the past to fit the sensibilities…

— R.A. Salvatore

“Nostalgia is in my blood. My mother was a passionate teacher of history and a lover of all things "was." I, too, prefer the…

— Lisa Anselmo

“The stronger their nostalgia, the emptier of recollections it becomes.”

— Milan kundera

“Katz couldn't have said exactly why Walter mattered to him. No doubt part of it was simply an accident of grandfathering: of forming an…

— Jonathan Franzen

“...History is the key to the unity of a people. Its nostalgia pulls them together. Its gloom separates them further. Its successes make them…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“My fascination with history is as much about the present as it is about the past.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Nostalgia was becoming a favoured hobby of his. Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“...normally I consider nostalgia to be a toxic impulse. It is the twinned, yearning delusion that (a) the past was better (it wasn´t) and…

— John Hodgman

“There is a hopeless longing for nostalgia that pervades the human soul, a return to the warm glow of remembrance or some imagined past.”

— Deborah L. Norris

“But here is the truth of nostalgia: We don’t feel it for who we were, but who we weren’t. We feel it for all…

— Joseph Fink

“History was like looking into others’ lives, learning how they lived, what they did, how they thought, and even how they loved.”

— Max Vos