Nostalgia Quotes

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

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.

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.

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 is always doomed and dooming.

Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.

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.

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

For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.

You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

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.

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

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

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 don't have a great nostalgia for the past.

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.

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

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

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.

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

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.

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

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.

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

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