Nostalgia Quotes

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

Act, Innocence, Rebellion

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.
Frank Zappa

Fire, Two, Necessary

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.
David Hobson

Patience, Joy, Soul

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

Maybe, Distance, Gives

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?
Jeanne Moreau

Life, Tomorrow, Why

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

Good, Old, Days

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

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
George Ball

Liar, Seductive

Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.
James Wolcott

Everyone, Entitled

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

I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.
Jeanne Moreau

Woman, Sense, Absolutely

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

Same, Place, Stay

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.
Christopher Lasch

Life, Society, Today

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

Run, Presidency

Maybe I over-do the 'not-80s' thing. It should be a part of my life that I've got some sort of pride in, but I've got this huge chip on my shoulder about '80s nostalgia - and it annoys fans sometimes.
Gary Numan

Life, Sometimes, Pride

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

Home, Yourself, Country

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.
James Buchan

War, Few, Since

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

Remember, Used, Hey

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.
Gary Ross

Change, Future, Put

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.
Gary Numan

Why, Problem, Away

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

Subject, Refuse, Attracted

Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.
Sloane Crosley

History, Heart, Culture

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.
Gary Numan

Time, War, Business

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.
Gary Numan

Music, Happy, Long

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.
Bil Keane

Heart, Laugh, Eye

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

Place, Left, Romance

There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.
Michael Ian Black

Hope, Future, Pain

I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.
Josh Radnor

College, Loved, Memories

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

Real, Honest, Clouds

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

Hate, Past, Everything

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