Absolutes Quote by Jacques Derrida

“...nostalgia goes beyond individual psychology. At first glance, nostalgia is a longing for a place, but actually it is a yearning for a different…

— Svetlana Boym

“Thus the activity of preservation should be distinguished from the nostalgia accompanying fantasies of a lost home from which the subject is separated and…

— Iris Marion Young

“Nostalgia is a rebellion against an oppressive reality and an ontological search for the essence of one's being.”

— Anonymous

We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has been lost…

— T. J. Jackson Lears

Nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return

— Milan Kundera

Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.

— Don DeLillo

“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

“Our archives are treasure troves - a testament to many lives lived and the complexity of the way we move forward. They contain clues…

— Sara Sheridan

“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

From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing…

— David Nicholls

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

— Robert Hass

“Nostalgia is a powerful drug to which intelligent and sensitive people resort when they are bored or frightened by the times they are living…

— John Gloag