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Nostalgia Quotes

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

Authors on Nostalgia Quotes: Doug Larson Miuccia Prada Robert Breault Larissa Sansour Agnes Varda William Shakespeare Jeanne Moreau Angela Carter Milan Kundera Gary Numan Terry Eagleton Jean Baudrillard Lucy Maud Montgomery Rose Schneiderman Marshall McLuhan Evan Esar Ted Koppel James Wolcott Pablo Neruda Andrei Codrescu Gary Shteyngart Hannah Nordhaus Demetri Martin Julian Barnes Elie Wiesel T. S. Eliot George Saunders Britta Phillips Clarissa Ward Zeena Schreck Michelle Gomez Agatha Christie Todd Haynes
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Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.
Pablo Neruda

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

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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.
Pier Paolo Pasolini

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

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

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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.
Fernando Sabino

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Any time gone by was better.
Jorge Manrique

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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

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

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Remembrance of things past.
William Shakespeare

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

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My idea is always to avoid nostalgia.
Miuccia Prada

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

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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.
Milan Kundera

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

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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.
Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

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

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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.
David Benioff

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

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

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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.
Irving Kristol

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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

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

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Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
Michael Marcus

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

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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.
Ellie Goulding

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Nostalgia is not what it used to be.
Simone Signoret

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

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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.
Jean Baudrillard

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These fragments I have shored against my ruins
T. S. Eliot

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

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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.
Robert Breault

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

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Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.
Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Peter De Vries

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

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

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

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Nostalgia, the vice of the aged.
Angela Carter

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Sometimes nostalgia is a cage.
Andre Benjamin

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I hate nostalgia. Today is always better than yesterday.
Pierre Berge

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

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

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

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

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

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