Time Quote by Georg Simmel

“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

“I find myself becoming increasingly nostalgic for the past, but after all I suppose that is the only thing one can be nostalgic about.”

— James Rozoff

“Most of the time we are trying to make the good things last, or we are thinking about replacing them with something even better…

— Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

“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

“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, by definition, the least authentic of all feelings.”

— Enrique de Hériz

“The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.”

— Baroness Emma Orczy

“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

“It was nostalgic in that painful way nostalgia could be”

— Kristen Ashley

“There is an enduring freshness in what remains strange and obscure which the cliches of greatness can only evoke nostalgia for.”

— Bauvard

“Nostalgic memory is a sudden encounter with the thingness of the thing that has been forgotten, not the continuous desire for possessions, whether past,…

— Marjorie Garber

“It is not settled happiness but momentary joy that glorifies the past.”

— C.S. Lewis