Nostalgia Quotes

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

Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.

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

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.

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

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

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.

Any time gone by was better.

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.

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

Remembrance of things past.

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

My idea is always to avoid nostalgia.

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

How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present? You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more.

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.

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

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

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

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

Nostalgia is an illness for those who haven't realized that today is tomorrow's nostalgia.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.

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

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.

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

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

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.

These fragments I have shored against my ruins

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

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.

Mercy, mercy me, things ain't what they used to be.

It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.

Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

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

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

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged.

I hate nostalgia. Today is always better than yesterday.

Sometimes nostalgia is a cage.

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

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

Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.

The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.

.. . . would I were In Grantchester, in Grantchester!