Nostalgia Quote by Svetlana Boym

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged.

— Angela Carter

“An increasingly heavy burden of time has been accumulating in the human mind. All individuals are suffering under this burden, but they also keep…

— Eckhart Tolle

Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness. The yoke…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“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

“Time. So much of our human experience is bound up in time, I muse. It reflects in our everyday colloquialisms, and drives so much…

— John Dolan

“But in terms of "psychological" time, most of us are still living in centuries past, stirred by ancient grudges, controlled by obsolete prejudices, driven…

— Sydney J. Harris

“I’ve learned that most people never bother to construct time machines. They’re perfectly content to stumble through life, seemingly unthinking. They’re unaware of their…

— Shane Crash

“Indeed time has that ultimate capacity to render the passions of the past when recalled in the present as no more than grandiloquent gestures.”

— F. Sionil José

“In old times, life moved at a gentler rhythm, whereas modern times seem to demand constant speed and instant gratification.”

— Susan Shrestha

“There are two types of people in this world: those who resist change in favor of nostalgia and those who move with the times…

— Phil M Jones

“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

One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider…

— Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles