Nostalgia Quotes

Nostalgia is not what it used to be. (Simone Signoret)
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. View quote
Frank Zappa
Sharp nostalgia, infinite And terrible, for what I already possess! View quote
Juan Ramón Jiménez
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. View quote
Robert Smithson
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. View quote
Peter De Vries
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. View quote
Anatole Broyard
Remember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important. View quote
Gary Shteyngart
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. View quote
Christopher Lasch
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. View quote
Max von Sydow
Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity. View quote
Robert Morgan
I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest. (Robert Wyatt)
There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left. View quote
David Guterson
The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd: the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world's existence. All these half-tones of the soul's consciousness create a raw landscape within us, a sun eternally setting on what we are. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
[As a screenwriter] I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine. View quote
Raymond Chandler
When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning. View quote
Jean Baudrillard
Esperando (Cuando Cuba Sea Libre) is probably one of the most personal songs from the new [September, 2007] CD, "90 Millas" . . . as it really speaks about the celebration, nostalgia and emotion that will happen the day Cuba is free. If we're to move forward in Cuba, we really have to have a lot of forgiveness for each other and look towards the future. View quote
Gloria Estefan
I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine. View quote
Lou Reed
There was a time when time did not yet exist. ... The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time. View quote
Emil Cioran
Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. View quote
Emil Cioran
The fall or scrapping of a cultural world puts us all into the same archetypal cesspool, engendering nostalgia for earlier conditions. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
[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." (Marshall McLuhan)
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. View quote
Madeleine Stowe
When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much ridicule that you would never forget it? With his morbid dream of primitive and rustic life, with his nostalgia for Homeric cheeses and legendary wool-spinners, with his hatred for the machine, steam power, and electricity, that maniac of antique simplicity is like a man who, after having reached full physical maturity, still wants to sleep in his cradle and feed himself at the breast of his decrepit old nurse in order to recover his thoughtless infancy. View quote
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual. View quote
Abbie Hoffman
Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past. View quote
Peter Carey