Bearable Quote by Mignon McLaughlin

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had

— Mignon McLaughlin

The essence of nostalgia is an awareness that what has been will never be again.

— Milton S. Eisenhower

Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred…

— Carolyn Heilbrun

“Nostalgia is so certain: the sense of familiarity it instills makes us feel like we know ourselves, like we've lived. To get a sense…

— Carrie Brownstein

Nostalgia is a strange and powerful emotion. As much we try and fight it and fight ourselves, it's very hard not to.

— Robert Del Naja

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 is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

— Peter Carey

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely…

— Brené Brown

Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met.

— R. C. Sproul, Jr

Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.

— Miuccia Prada

Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best…

— Irving Kristol

For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss.

— Michael Chabon