Family Quote by Stephanie Coontz

“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

I always find that nostalgia is sort of like memory without the pain. And that's why it feels so good to kind of bask…

— 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

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

— Robert Hass

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

“...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

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

— Milton S. Eisenhower

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 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 powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.

— Terrence Malick

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 doesn't make sense, because it's like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of…

— Agnes Varda