Nostalgia Quotes

Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.
Sherman Alexie

Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.
Terry Eagleton

Today, Racism, Almost

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

Bad, Friends, Sometimes

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
Van Morrison

'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.
Frank Miller

Nothing, America, False

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

Play, Shows, Acts

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

Bad, Through, Thought

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.
Madeleine Stowe

Remember, Others, Sense

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.
Paul Getty

Often, Idle, Leads

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.
Mira Nair

Place, Another, Dream

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.
Lana Del Rey

Best, Past, Fashion

I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and best-looking image capture medium available. I don't think it always will be. The digital image will get better, and it will eventually surpass the quality of the film image, but it isn't there yet.
Rian Johnson

Put, Film, Quality

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

National, Bliss, Calmness

This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.
John Thorn

Family, Home, Pain

Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.
Julio Cortazar

Love, Everything, Eyes

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.
Chris Ware

Alone, Nothing, Wanted

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

Movies, Old, Memories

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.
Angela Carter

Another, Name, Soon

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

Work, Great, Important

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.
Jonathan Lethem

Love, Energy, Matter

From time to time there is a move to do a little less in the way of period dramas, but people rebel. Audiences say we want them. There is a big hunger for them. I don't think it's sentimentality or nostalgia, it's often that they are simply the best stories.
Andrew Davies

Time, Best, Big

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

I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like 'Midnight in Paris.' Nostalgia isn't so enticing.
Meshell Ndegeocello

Person, Joke, Color

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?
Julio Cortazar

Future, Live, Lost

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

Good, Old, Days

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

Artist, Act, Solo

Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.
Peter Carey

Pain, Past, Fuzzy

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
Florence King

True, Memories, Disjointed

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.
Anatole Broyard

Love, Wait, American

I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia.
Francine Prose

Home, Movies, Old

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