Best 712 quotes in «nostalgia quotes» category

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 IS A WEAPON

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

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

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.

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.

Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Remembrance of things past.

Sad memories often contain an element of nostalgia.

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.

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

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

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

The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.

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.

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

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

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

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.

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

Without Ukraine, Russia's imperial aspirations are essentially nostalgia, but it's not a real policy.

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

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

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.

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.

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.