Nostalgia Quote by Edmund White

“Maybe universal nostalgia doesn't exist. Maybe each of us carries our own personal version of the better times. It's at about twnety-two years that…

— Caleb J. Ross

Most oldsters are fascinated by the Future, while the young love to look back to earlier days, especially their own.

— Malcolm Forbes

Nostalgia paints a smile on the stony face of the past.

— Mason Cooley

From about 5 years old on, I was very contemplative and started to become constantly filled with nostalgia for the present moment and the…

— Alex Ebert

“Is nostalgia stopping our culture’s ability to surge forward, or are we nostalgic precisely because our culture has stopped moving forward and so we…

— Simon Reynolds

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

— Louis L'Amour

“Nostalgia is denial. Denial of the painful present. The name for this denial is Golden Age thinking - the erroneous notion that a different…

— Midnight in Paris

Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed...

— John Green

It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past.

— Robert Breault

Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.

— Robert Hass

OLD AGE: It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.

— Wandini

The most intriguing thing about the present moment is that it never grows old.

— Deepak Chopra