Auras Quote by Milan Kundera

“For how can we condemn something that is ephemeral, in transit? In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia,…

— Milan Kundera

Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?

— Dennis Cooper

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

— Mason Cooley

Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to…

— Walter Benjamin

Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.

— Terrence Malick

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

— Mason Cooley

A life of mere pleasure! A little while, in the spring-time of the senses, in the sunshine of prosperity, in the jubilee of health,…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Nostalgia is heroin for old people.

— Dara O Briain

“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

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

— Anonymous

“The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated 'wholeness' of the body politic can be repaired. But the reflective nostalgic…

— Simon Reynolds