Quotes and Sayings about Nostalgia
"Nostalgia is a seductive liar."
- George Ball
(Related: Nostalgia)
"I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days."
- Kabir Bedi
(Related: Nostalgia, Old)
"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."
- Anatole Broyard
(Related: Love, American, Literature, Nostalgia, Paradoxes, Writers)
"Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being."
- Albert Camus
(Related: Act, Being, Innocence, Nostalgia, Rebellion)
"Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe."
- Angela Carter
(Related: Europe, Name, Nostalgia, Will)
"Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome."
- Angela Carter
(Related: Movies, Memories, Nostalgia, Old, Vice)
"I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows."
- David Cassidy
(Related: Nostalgia, Play)
"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."
- Julio Cortazar
(Related: Love, Eyes, Nostalgia)
"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?"
- Julio Cortazar
(Related: Future, Paradise, Nostalgia)
"Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation."
- Paul Getty
(Related: Nostalgia)
"There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left."
- David Guterson
(Related: Romance, Nostalgia)
"I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow."
- David Hobson
(Related: Soul, Challenge, Eye, Joy, Nostalgia, Novelty, Patience, Plants)
"Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess."
- Juan Ramon Jimenez
(Related: Infinite, Nostalgia)
"True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories."
- Florence King
(Related: Memories, Nostalgia)
"Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days."
- Doug Larson
(Related: Nostalgia, Old)
"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."
- Christopher Lasch
(Related: Life, Society, Past, Today)
"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."
- Jonathan Lethem
(Related: Love, Energy, Film, Literature, Nostalgia)
"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?"
- Jeanne Moreau
(Related: Life, Nostalgia, Now, Right, Tomorrow)
"Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity."
- Robert Morgan
(Related: Nostalgia, Perspective)
"I don't think nostalgia has to be negative."
- Van Morrison
(Related: Negative, Nostalgia)
"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."
- Mira Nair
(Related: Dream, Nostalgia)
"I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine."
- Lou Reed
(Related: Nostalgia)
"I hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it."
- Marc Ribot
(Related: Hate, Nostalgia, Nothing, Want)
"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."
- Sam Shepard
(Related: Home, Country, Nostalgia)
"Nostalgia is not what it used to be."
- Simone Signoret
(Related: Nostalgia)
"The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness."
- Robert Smithson
(Related: Ideals, Nostalgia)
"I've never returned to the locations. I do remember certain days more clearly than others and certain locations with a sense of nostalgia. Perhaps one day, I'll bring my daughter to see them, if she's interested."
- Madeleine Stowe
(Related: Daughter, Day, Nostalgia, Sense)
"I don't have a great nostalgia for the past."
- Andy Summers
(Related: Nostalgia, Past)
"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."
- Max von Sydow
(Related: Work, Nostalgia)
"This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family."
- John Thorn
(Related: Family, Home, Being, Nostalgia, Pain)
"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be."
- Peter De Vries
(Related: Nostalgia)
"I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest."
- Robert Wyatt
(Related: Clouds, Nostalgia)
"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."
- Frank Zappa
(Related: Ending, Fire, Nostalgia, World)