Best 712 quotes in «nostalgia quotes» category

It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back

It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.

It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past.

I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.

I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really, seriously bad. I don't traffic in nostalgia. We're becoming a global culture.

Maybe I over-do the 'not-80s' thing. It should be a part of my life that I've got some sort of pride in, but I've got this huge chip on my shoulder about '80s nostalgia - and it annoys fans sometimes.

I was very surprised how many people were earnestly reminiscing about the '80s. It's such a stupid thing to do, like, to be honestly invested in nostalgia. It never even occurred to me to do that.

Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane.

NOSTALGIA IS A WEAPON

Nostalgia is, 'Hey, remember the other mall that used to be there?'

Nostalgia is the bane of rock 'n' roll. He had the courage to let it all hang out. ... He was a considerable talent.

It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos. ... All photographs are memento mori. To take photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt

Nostalgia wouldn't begin to capture your sense of loss, ... The Way We Really Are Coming to Terms With America's Changing Families.

Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.

Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.

People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.

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

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.

Remembrance of things past.

Sad memories often contain an element of nostalgia.

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

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

Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.

Remember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important.

Science fiction also provides a sense of nostalgia that is always present when it comes to Palestine, in that whenever we talk about Palestine, it is never in the present, but either remembering a past or imagining a better future. Submitting gritty Middle Eastern politics to high production sci-fi in this manner not only underlines the absurdity of the situation, but brings about a dystopian future scenario.

The past is good (as we all know), twenty, thirty years back everything was good, anyone can tell you that.

The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things.

The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.

The end of anything is not fun because there's a nostalgia to it and everything else. Even the end of a bad relationship can feel so, so, so sad.

There is definitely a nostalgia, and I am very sentimental, so I don't begrudge people for having sentimental feelings towards vinyl.

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.

There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia.

There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

The Schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

They remember when their parents went out there, had picnics on the Beck's Mill grounds. It was the nostalgia of it.

We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history.

This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.

What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much of a bad press.

When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.

While the fictional realm as such allows for the obstacles of present-day politics to be altered, neglected, and negotiated at will, sci-fi seems to embody ideals, expectations, and fears of the future that are quite adequate for describing the Palestinian predicament. Somehow managing to fuse nostalgia and hopes for a better and more efficient future, sci-fi seems to lend itself to capturing the decades of Palestinian yearning for a utopia that almost seems dated by now.

When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from now.

Which doesn't mean, of course, that I'd stopped loving her, that I'd forgotten her, or that her image had paled; on the contrary; in the form of a quiet nostalgia she remained constantly within me; I longed for her as one longs for something definitively lost.