Nostalgia Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“And so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born.”

— Mohsin Hamid

“Then, as now, nobody talked about the legacy of Empire. Britain had colonised, owned, occupied or interfered with half the world. We had carved…

— Jeanette Winterson

“The memory of war was fading into the past as a nightmare vanishes with the dawn; soon it would lie outside the experience of…

— Arthur C Clarke

“History is what people want to remember.”

— Jane Stevenson

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

— Milan kundera

“You know, the Elizabethans thought nostalgia was a diagnosable disease. Perhaps they were right.”

— Mark Gatiss

“Memories did that to you. They glorified the past until the real thing was often a letdown, making you wonder why you had craved…

— Melanie Milburne

“... instead of trying to grapple with the implications of the story of empire, the British seem to have decided just to ignore it...…

— Jeremy Paxman

“I had long since realised that if there was greatness in Britain, then it lay in its everyday citizens, and not in its institutions.”

— Nikesh Shukla

“[They] talked mostly of their memories, for the past was all they had - the present being such a changable, odd thing, and the…

— Jayne Fresina

“I understand that my memories are important to history.”

— Clint Hill

“...the experience of battle forever divides those who talk of nothing else but its prospect from those who talk of everything else but its…

— James D. Hornfischer