Quotes about Nostalgia

Nostalgia is a seductive liar. Votes: 6

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days. Votes: 6

Nostalgia is not what it used to be. Votes: 4

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. Votes: 4

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity. Votes: 4

I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days. Votes: 4

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest. Votes: 4

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome. Votes: 4

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. Votes: 4

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had Votes: 4

Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place. Votes: 4

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. Votes: 4

Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks. Votes: 4

Nostalgia isn't a business model Votes: 3

Nostalgia: How long's that been around? Votes: 3

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation. Votes: 3

Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming. Votes: 3

Nostalgia is heroin for old people. Votes: 3

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. Votes: 3

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. Votes: 3

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. Votes: 3

Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything. Votes: 3

Nostalgia could be considered a disease because you're living now. Votes: 3

Nostalgia paints a smile on the stony face of the past. Votes: 3

Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past. Votes: 3

Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share. Votes: 3

Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane. Votes: 3

Nostalgia is, 'Hey, remember the other mall that used to be there?' Votes: 3

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual. Votes: 3

Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. Votes: 3

Nostalgia is an illness for those who haven't realized that todayis tomorrow's nostalgia. Votes: 3

Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring. Votes: 3

Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past. Votes: 3

Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth. Votes: 3

Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually. Votes: 3

Nostalgia is the intimate refuge of every man and every woman in a world seemingly gone mad. Votes: 3

Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly. Votes: 3

Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. Votes: 3

Nostalgia wouldn't begin to capture your sense of loss, ... The Way We Really Are Coming to Terms With America's Changing Families. Votes: 3

I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like 'Midnight in Paris.' Nostalgia isn't so enticing. Votes: 3

Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met. Votes: 3

As one of my older friends says, "Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be." Let's take a stab at it, anyway. Votes: 3

Nostalgia is the bane of rock 'n' roll. He had the courage to let it all hang out. ... He was a considerable talent. Votes: 3

Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods. Votes: 3

Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory. Votes: 3

Nostalgia is being blind to the bad and only remembering the good. Thinking about all the love I had for her is a positively Helen-Kelleresque experience. Votes: 3

Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just--well--being sad. Votes: 3

I can't throw away cologne because that is Nostalgia in a Bottle, the scent of yesterday, and it reminds me of her more clearly than her picture. Votes: 3

Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious. Votes: 3

You had to pick up a landline to make sure your best friend wore a matching outfit to school. I do remember people talking more. Nostalgia is dangerous, though. Votes: 3

Every time I open the drawer, it's a trip down Memory Lane, which, if you don't turn off at the right exit, merges straight into the Masochistic Nostalgia Highway. Votes: 3

What seems real one moment is fiction the nextand gone out of existence the moment after that.Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth,and change our only constancy. Votes: 3

...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia. Votes: 3

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed. Votes: 3

Nostalgia can be extremely powerful in the right hands: think of the intense longing in the films Andrei Tarkovsky made after he left the U.S.S.R. They wring your soul. Votes: 3

I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse. Votes: 3

Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us. Votes: 3

Nostalgia is a particular affliction of immigrant fiction, and it's led to a kind of sclerosis of the form. I hate nostalgia, and I feel it's good to be aware of the politics of these genres. Votes: 3

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 my week. And I'm inside my memories the same way I'm inside my everyday life. Votes: 3

Why is nostalgia such a bad thing? Nostalgia is a longing to return. If you really loved where you came from, if, in essence, you really loved yourself, how can you not want that to exist? It's like wanting your parents keep living. Votes: 3

My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia? Votes: 3

Nostalgia is partly illusion in that we remember things differently as we get older, etc. But that doesn't mean, when historians look back on the 1950s, say, from the year 2090, it won't be judged as a saner, slower, less narcissistic, more family-focused, and economically secure time. Votes: 3

Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide. Votes: 3

Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide." Votes: 3

Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me out of my sentimentality. For me at least, fiction is the only way I can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true. Votes: 3

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine. Votes: 2

We are homesick most for the places we have never known. Votes: 2

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it. Votes: 2

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be? Votes: 2

I don't do nostalgia. The phrase 'the good old days' never passes my lips. Votes: 2

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past. Votes: 2

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine. Votes: 2

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now. Votes: 2

Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics. Votes: 2

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave. Votes: 2

Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature and my love of film. Votes: 2

I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it. Votes: 2

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known. Votes: 2

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. Votes: 2

A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature. Votes: 2

Probably to me the greatest singer, female voice, is Billie Holiday. And one of the most moving for me, I don't know why - maybe it's nostalgia, maybe because my life is one of constant partying, whatever. Votes: 2

When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good. Votes: 2

I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else. Votes: 2

There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook. Votes: 2

I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws. Votes: 2

I haven't changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it... It means integrity; it means honesty; it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence of nostalgia; it means simplicity; it means clarity. That's what modernism means to me. Votes: 2

I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself. Votes: 2

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present. Votes: 2

The thing I always liked best about touring abroad was constantly running into different people, different cultures, different foods. It really pumped up my batteries... I'm constantly playing to a demographically diverse audience... one generation is driven by nostalgia, the next by curiosity. And that's why I have no plans to retire. Votes: 2

In my day, MI6 - which I called the Circus in the books - stank of wartime nostalgia. People were defined by secret cachet: one man did something absolutely extraordinary in Norway; another was the darling of the French Resistance. We didn't even show passes to go in and out of the building. Votes: 2

Most of us grew up with video games in the household, either the original Nintendo in the living room or hoarding quarters for that trip to the arcade. And as time moves on, that line of nostalgia will keep moving forward where 'Frogger' gets replaced with 'Street Fighter 2' or 'Resident Evil 4.' Votes: 2

I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds. Votes: 2

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time. Votes: 2

What makes most people comfortable is some sort of sense of nostalgia. I grew up in a small town, and I could count my friends on one hand, and I still live that way. I think I'll die in a small town. When I can't move my bones around a stage any more, you'll find me living in a place that's spread out and rural and spacious. Votes: 2

NOSTALGIA IS A WEAPON Votes: 0

Sometimes nostalgia is a cage. Votes: 0

Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods. Votes: 0

The artist secretes nostalgia around life. Votes: 0

My nostalgia is for the impossible. Votes: 0

The mists of nostalgia color memory. Votes: 0

Advice is a form of nostalgia. Votes: 0

My idea is always to avoid nostalgia. Votes: 0

Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia. Votes: 0

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative. Votes: 0

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. Votes: 0

Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. Votes: 0

I hate nostalgia, it's laziness with prettier accessories ... Votes: 0

Sad memories often contain an element of nostalgia. Votes: 0

Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism. Votes: 0

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe. Votes: 0

I don't have a great nostalgia for the past. Votes: 0

You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia. Votes: 0

...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger. Votes: 0

Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude. Votes: 0

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess. Votes: 0

I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows. Votes: 0

If nostalgia holds you hostage,the ransom is the present. Votes: 0

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home. Votes: 0

I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia. Votes: 0

I remember when I used to be really into nostalgia. Votes: 0

I hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it. Votes: 0

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left. Votes: 0

I have no sense of nostalgia. Tomorrow is what interests me. Votes: 0

Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future. Votes: 0

It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia. Votes: 0

I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons. Votes: 0

To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia. Votes: 0

Nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia. Votes: 0

No nostalgia is felt as keenly as nostalgia for things that never existed. Votes: 0

The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else's nostalgia Votes: 0

I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. Votes: 0

In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go. Votes: 0

How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew? Votes: 0

Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine? Votes: 0

For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act. Votes: 0

It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived. Votes: 0

This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy. Votes: 0

Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity. Votes: 0

The essence of nostalgia is an awareness that what has been will never be again. Votes: 0

Hollywood is in love with any kind of nostalgia that can prove itself to be commercial. Votes: 0

A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia. Votes: 0

When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning. Votes: 0

Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past. Votes: 0

Things have gotten so bad in this country, you look back at Richard Nixon with nostalgia. Votes: 0

Remember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important. Votes: 0

A good antidote to nostalgia is to go home, and then you remember why you left. Votes: 0

While I occasionally enjoy a bout of nostalgia, I would generally rather dream forward than backward. Votes: 0

No nostalgia runs deeper than that for something one has never known and now cannot obtain. Votes: 0

To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace. Votes: 0

People gravitate towards their own era, nostalgia therapy is a real thing that's being tinkered with. Votes: 0

The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things. Votes: 0

War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country. Votes: 0

For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. I think it's just a natural human response to loss. Votes: 0

Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back. Votes: 0

Musicals are finally kind of coming back to a degree, perhaps out of a sense of nostalgia. Votes: 0

His boredom was like a nostalgia for the whole world. He was homesick for everywhere but here. Votes: 0

I am a forward thinker with nostalgia. I dream of the past, and daydream of the future. Votes: 0

I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy. Votes: 0

If someone wants to run a campaign about '90s nostalgia, it's not going to be very successful. Votes: 0

As far as my personal nostalgia zone goes, I find I watch more of AntennaTV than anything else. Votes: 0

I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for. Votes: 0

Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish. Votes: 0

The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret. Votes: 0

I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia. Votes: 0

Her own vague red trail created a livid atmosphere. She was like an avalanche and they were her nostalgia. Votes: 0

Children who were very truly pious in a Catholic childhood are apt to retain a nostalgia for the absolute. Votes: 0

It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken. Votes: 0

Her own vague red trail created a livid atmosphere. She was like an avalanche and they were her nostalgia." Votes: 0

I think it's necessary to keep moving forward. I've always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative. Votes: 0

There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia. Votes: 0

You know what nostalgia is, don't you? It's basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain. Votes: 0

I think whatever generation you're in has a nostalgia for the generations past and the generations you weren't in. Votes: 0

The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. Votes: 0

Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme. Votes: 0

I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot. Votes: 0

I get emotional when young people get nostalgic about my work. That's why it's called nostalgia. Sometimes I even cry. Votes: 0

What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much of a bad press. Votes: 0

When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new. Votes: 0

There's too much rock that relies a fetishism or nostalgia for the old ways. That's a real enemy to music. Votes: 0

It's not like I'm all into nostalgia and history, it's just that I can't stand the way things are now Votes: 0

There is definitely a nostalgia, and I am very sentimental, so I don't begrudge people for having sentimental feelings towards vinyl. Votes: 0

Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village. Votes: 0

The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes. Votes: 0

I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level, Votes: 0

I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level. Votes: 0

I just really gravitate towards a nostalgia for a time when things were simpler. When beauty was more classical and glamorous. Votes: 0

Unconsciously, I think I watch for a look, an expression, features or nostalgia that can summarize or more accurately reveal life. Votes: 0

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality. Votes: 0

After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed's dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor. Votes: 0

The fall or scrapping of a cultural world puts us all into the same archetypal cesspool, engendering nostalgia for earlier conditions. Votes: 0

If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time. Votes: 0

This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family. Votes: 0

They remember when their parents went out there, had picnics on the Beck's Mill grounds. It was the nostalgia of it. Votes: 0

I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future. Votes: 0

At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be--for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past--is nearly overwhelming. Votes: 0

Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either Votes: 0

We're afraid to move on, that's why there's so much nostalgia on the internet... 'cause we don't wanna look forward, that's scary. Votes: 0

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. Votes: 0

I love the feeling of nostalgia vying with the present. That can be from song to song, or within the same song. Votes: 0

The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia. Votes: 0

I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia. Votes: 0

I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it. Votes: 0

We describe [Paper Girls] as Stand By Me meets Terminator.It's a story about nostalgia and childhood, but with an action-packed, sci-fi bent. Votes: 0

My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh? Votes: 0

We all know the sound a camera makes when it snaps a picture. Even some of the digitals do it for nostalgia's sake. Votes: 0

Parents bobble between a nostalgia-infused yearning for their children to play and fear that time spent playing is time lost to more practical pursuits. Votes: 0

Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with glorious misery. Votes: 0

In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory. Votes: 0

I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back. Votes: 0

I just hope the film [Aquarius] doesn't feel overly nostalgic because too much nostalgia for me leads to depression. I think Clara is very pragmatic. Votes: 0

Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. Votes: 0

the ache became longing, longing became nostalgia, nostalgia became fondness, and after a while he could see the funny side of it. A long while. Votes: 0

I weaned myself on the nostalgia equivalent of methadone (less addictive, less obvious, less likely to make you crazy): missing what I had never had. Votes: 0

[On Jimmy Carter] "Huck Finn. Loss of identity drives people to nostalgia. Electronic man has no physical body, so he puts nostalgia in its place. Votes: 0

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves? Votes: 0

There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time. Votes: 0

As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth. Votes: 0

I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful. Votes: 0

I am endeavoring to steer gymnastics out of a dead end that satisfies only a handful of short-sighted individuals with nostalgia for an era gone by. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's probably just an illusion. Votes: 0

It's very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much before we have nothing left to build on. Votes: 0

Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you've traveled independently through Tibet, Brandon Wilson's Yak Butter Blues will bring back memories...this lively memoir is sure to provide a yak-scented whiff of nostalgia. Votes: 0

People look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful white male Votes: 0

Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia at all. Votes: 0

We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future. Votes: 0

Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight. Votes: 0

As life speeds by, nostalgia has a shorter pregnancy. Games still in progress are given the straight-to-sepia status of "Instant Classics" no matter how oxymoronic that phrase appears. Votes: 0

From about 5 years old on, I was very contemplative and started to become constantly filled with nostalgia for the present moment and the feeling that it's always fleeting. Votes: 0

As a band, it's just me trying to please my own basement-hardcore sensibilities that I grew up with. It's not actually the future of anything, it's totally nostalgia. Votes: 0

Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart. Votes: 0

The only art I'm interested in is the art I don't understand right away. If you understand it right away it really has no use except as nostalgia. Votes: 0

Gide says the hell of this life is that between a hundred paths we have to choose only one, and live with nostalgia for the other ninety nine. Votes: 0

Entering Malibu, I was overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia and long lost sadness, like seeing a home I had left a long time ago and had returned to. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had. Votes: 0

The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas. Votes: 0

In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a symbol of blue- collar nostalgia for a tough leader. Votes: 0

This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of "memory," not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future in one complete contemplative knowing. Votes: 0

You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind Standing on that windswept hillside Listening to the church bells chime Listen to the church bells chime In that magic time... Votes: 0

Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia. Votes: 0

A lot of designers still have nostalgia for the past. As for the furniture in the future, I hope they use less of real wood. Conservation in wood is necessary. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America. Votes: 0

If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I've got this problem with nostalgia. Votes: 0

When I go on a nostalgia trip it's not aesthetic. For me it's about trying to recapture the smell or the feeling of something that I've experienced in the past personally. Votes: 0

He is already past the high point in his life and coming down on the other side. By next week he'll be nostalgia. He's 12 years old, and it's over for him. Votes: 0

I feel like my songs are very relevant and very meaningful, but I literally have to get rid of the nostalgia for shows because I would just be mess on-stage otherwise. Votes: 0

The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit will always have for mother earth! Votes: 0

A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today. Votes: 0

One day we're going to look back at $1,700 with nostalgia. People are going to be shocked at how inexpensive gold was when it could be snapped up for such a bargain price. Votes: 0

I look back with a mix of emotions: sadness for the people who are gone, nostalgia for times that have passed, but immense gratitude for the wonderful opportunities that came my way. Votes: 0

Do people think I'm cool because I was in a movie when I was a child? No. Well, maybe a little bit more than they used to. There's definitely a nostalgia factor. Votes: 0

There is a lovely warmness about feelings of nostalgia as though in one's head one is putting on a pair of comfy old slippers and curling up in front of a fire. Votes: 0

I believe that white frame house is worthy of more than a nod of nostalgia, because the values President Clinton learned there and in Hope formed the core of his political philosophy. Votes: 0

This is what happened when one left one's home - pieces of oneself scattered all over the world, no one place ever completely satisfied, always a nostalgia for the place left behind. Votes: 0

A unipolar world - one with only one power - makes sure that this space almost disappears. In a multipolar world this space multiplies. Therefore, there is nostalgia for a multipolar world. Votes: 0

The whole nostalgia thing, and just sticking with what you always liked and what you know and not taking a chance on something or expanding. I think especially after a certain age. Votes: 0

Soviet-era nostalgia has strong support among the people. But not among the elite and, in my opinion, not with the president. We are not interested in keeping remnants of the communist era alive. Votes: 0

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature, Votes: 0

I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that's vanished - the England of my childhood has actually disappeared. Votes: 0

. . .I really ought to have recognized it for what it was and, perhaps, to have stopped right there - for it was nostalgia, and what inspires nostalgia has been dead a long time Votes: 0

The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present. Votes: 0

December is a month that is rife with nostalgia. If there's anything deep in your heart that you want to keep buried, you can count on December to bring it to the surface. Votes: 0

I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. Votes: 0

I remember the old Times Square from when I was younger, and there was a seedy thrill to it. Some of that is gone, which I have a little bit of nostalgia for. Votes: 0

I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis. Votes: 0

I think - I don't know, maybe it's nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be - it's gone. It's going to be gone. Votes: 0

I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is different in small towns, and frankly, it is different. Votes: 0

The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia. Votes: 0

I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days, which leaves out everyone but white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, ... world's biggest cocktail party. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war. Votes: 0

If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief. Votes: 0

A lot of people in their 30's get nostalgic for their teen years. Then they get jobs in TV, become bitter and jaded and prematurely old. Then they turn their nostalgia into great television. Votes: 0

Americans continue to visit Paris not just for Paris, but for "˜Paris.' As if out of some collective nostalgia for what Paris should be, more than what it is. For someone else's memories. Votes: 0

This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever. But I'm not so interested in nostalgia. I'm interested in the future. Votes: 0

When I'm on a red carpet I want somebody to feel something when they look at what I'm wearing, when they look at the entire ensemble, whether it be nostalgia or excitement, you know? Votes: 0

The young readers I have interacted with carry old concerns repackaged in the skin of a new generation: puzzlement over continuous national moral failings, contradictions with the elders, nostalgia for a nonexistent Kenyan past. Votes: 0

I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade because if every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless. Votes: 0

The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia. Votes: 0

The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia. Votes: 0

From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost . . . . Votes: 0