Nostalgia Quotes

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.

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

I think that all human systems require continuous renewal. They rigidify. They get stiff in the joints. They forget what they cared about. The forces against it are nostalgia and the enormous appeal of having things the way they have always been, appeals to a supposedly happy past. But we've got to move on.

John W. Gardner

Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was.

Will Rogers

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now!

Alice Childress

If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning.

Griff Niblack

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.

Robert Hughes

Nostalgic memory is a sudden encounter with the thingness of the thing that has been forgotten, not the continuous desire for possessions, whether past, present, or future.

Marjorie B. Garber

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

Novalis

Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even failed to accomplish. At the same time, if nostalgia precipitates actions to return to that fabled, rosy-painted time, particularly in one who believes his life to be a failure, then it is an empty thing, doomed to produce nothing but frustration and an even greater sense of failure.

R.A. Salvatore

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

Albert Camus

Remembrance of things past.

William Shakespeare

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

Larry Nelson

A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Ted Koppel

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

George Wildman Ball

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: You find the present tense and the past perfect.

Unknown

Remembrance restores possibility to the past, making what happened incomplete and completing what never was. Remembrance is neither what happened nor what did not happen but, rather, their potentialization, their becoming possible once again.

Giorgio Agamben

Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed.

John Green

For us, the best time is always yesterday.

Tatyana Tolstaya

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

Juan Ramon Jimenez

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Peter De Vries

People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time around.

Unknown

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