Nostalgia Quotes

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

Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.

I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.

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.

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

The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

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.

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

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?

I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.

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.

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.

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.

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?

Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

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.

I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.

I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.

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

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.