Nostalgia Quotations

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

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

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

I have no sense of nostalgia. Tomorrow is what interests me.

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

Most of us grew up with video games in the household, either the original Nintendo in the living room or hoarding quarters for that trip to the arcade. And as time moves on, that line of nostalgia will keep moving forward where 'Frogger' gets replaced with 'Street Fighter 2' or 'Resident Evil 4.'

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

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

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

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

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.

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

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

A lot of designers still have nostalgia for the past. As for the furniture in the future, I hope they use less of real wood. Conservation in wood is necessary.

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

I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.

When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.

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

I look back with a mix of emotions: sadness for the people who are gone, nostalgia for times that have passed, but immense gratitude for the wonderful opportunities that came my way.

As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means.

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

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 don't have a great nostalgia for the past.

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

The Schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse.

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

'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.

I do hear from people at my exhibition about seeing these things made from this toy from their childhood, and it brings them back. They'll go and buy a set of Lego from the gift shop because of that nostalgia and seeing it at the art exhibition.

Nostalgia is, 'Hey, remember the other mall that used to be there?'

I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that world. I do not want to be the person I am now in that world then. None of the forms nostalgia can take fits. I found childhood boring. I was glad it was over.

The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things.

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

If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I've got this problem with nostalgia.

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.

I've always had the wish, the nostalgia to be able to write detective novels. At heart, the principal themes of detective novels are close to the things that obsess me: disappearance, the problems of identity, amnesia, the return to an enigmatic past.

There are bands that I got into when I was 15, when I was mad at my dad and just wanted to be different. I don't think I'd give those bands half a chance now. But I hold some kind of nostalgia for them that I won't let go. Bands like Minor Threat and Black Flag.

I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

Nostalgia can be extremely powerful in the right hands: think of the intense longing in the films Andrei Tarkovsky made after he left the U.S.S.R. They wring your soul.

Nostalgia is a particular affliction of immigrant fiction, and it's led to a kind of sclerosis of the form. I hate nostalgia, and I feel it's good to be aware of the politics of these genres.

Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.

I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem - you know, where the old paratroopers used to go - and charge them about 20 quid a time.

A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature.

What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much of a bad press.

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really, seriously bad. I don't traffic in nostalgia. We're becoming a global culture.

I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.

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

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

I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.

Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.

If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window.

When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from now.

I remember when I used to be really into nostalgia.

Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.

The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret.

A unipolar world - one with only one power - makes sure that this space almost disappears. In a multipolar world this space multiplies. Therefore, there is nostalgia for a multipolar world.

Let's get on with the nostalgia at the end of the season.

I feel nostalgia for the show in a way, ... I'd always wanted it to be a movie franchise. I never thought that when I felt the show ending or when I wanted to leave the show that it was the end of the show. I always thought that it was a natural for the screen. I'm happy to go back and continue it that way.

Historic Grand Prix is a collective nostalgia in the discipline which becomes more and more hermetic to those who are not a part of it.

I think it's become a tourist attraction, which kind of takes away the nostalgia of it, ... I don't like that it's become a tourist attraction and CBGB T-shirts are sold at Urban Outfitters and stuff.

some great outdoor party songs, some big hits that will encourage in listeners a little nostalgia when the summer has passed, and the kind of tribal energy tracks that make people move!

I think people are buying out of early nostalgia and sadness. They are buying up things they loved about New Orleans.

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

I was on a nostalgia trip for that one. I was in a really happy kind of space. That one just felt like it came from somewhere beyond me.

I would never take part in one of those Eighties nostalgia tours, although I've been asked many times, because it's like admitting you have nothing new to offer. As long as I can keep making music I'm happy with, and people want to come to my gigs to hear it, I'll carry on.

Advice is a form of nostalgia.

Tomorrow's 30-year bond auction should attract large accounts and nostalgia buffs that have quietly politicked to get the bellwether back.

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

The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.

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

Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.

Nostalgias were peeled from it long ago.

NOSTALGIA IS A WEAPON

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged.

Sometimes nostalgia is a cage.

Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.

I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and 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.

The artist secretes nostalgia around life.

We're not like a nostalgia act, or the normal classic rock act -- we're a really good musical organization, ... You're going to hear some blues, some jazz, a little of everything. The guys in the band are great musicians. When we play, we're there for real. It's not about posing, strutting in tights, that kind of stuff. It's all about music, and I've always respected my audience that way.

Yet I think nostalgia of any kind is a double-edged sword. When people see a TV show title from their youth, they're looking for a piece of that old experience to come back, and the truth is, they'll never recapture it.

We're tapping into nostalgia -- on the adult-toy aspect, on the low-tech aspect of it. Yet it delivers an image better than what you can get in any medium.

We've got a lot of plans for it. We're going to remodel in the next 30 to 60 days and we're going to do everything we can to make it nicer and newer. But at the same time we plan to keep the nostalgia of the place that people know so well.

There's sort of a magic boundary line. Something has its moment, and then it's gone; it becomes thrift-store trash. But then, once enough time has passed, people say: 'Oh, yeah! I remember those.' It used to take about 20 years, but everything is so sped up now that our sense of nostalgia has been sped up, too, so it doesn't take as long -- I'd say about 10 years.

I understand the nostalgia of having paper to feel and smell when you read it, but I would rather have fond memories of newspapers that have become obsolete than fond memories of beautiful forests that have become obsolete.

I?ve never played there, so it is kind of a special thing. It?s been around for so long and it?s got a lot of history and nostalgia about it. I?m pretty excited to go up there and play. It?s another opportunity for us to see where we?re at as a football team.

Nostalgia is not what it used to be (La nostalgie n'est plus ce qu'elle etait)

Nostalgia is eternal for Americans. We are often displaced from our origins and carry anxious memories of that lost past. We fear losing our bearings.

Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes.

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.

This is one of my favorite topics. As a car ages, it develops certain quirks and characteristics that we understandably perceive as a personality. Nostalgia plays an important part. The car becomes part of memories of what you did with or in it.

This is an album that reflects our past, but it's very much about the present, ... This isn't about nostalgia we're singing these songs here and now, and doing them our way.

They have appealed through an improved quality of store, more merchandise, bilingual orientation and paid attention to the nostalgia market with products made in Mexico.

It's a unique building having been a skating rink and a well-known Ream's grocery store. There's nostalgia associated with it.

It was such an idyllic time when I grew up in Hong Kong. It was a British colony and very much geared towards buying the best of Britain. My childhood does have a huge influence on how we design. There must be a little bit of that nostalgia - childhood is so special.

Studios are learning that they can tap into their film libraries and reap some pretty strong profits. The DVD is where studios can have more consistent success with older audiences since there is the nostalgia factor.