Definition of Nostalgia

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Definition of Nostalgia
	Nostalgia Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness. Related Definitions: And, Due, Fatal, Form, Melancholia, Of, Severe, Sometimes, To

Nostalgia Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nostalgia Translations

nostalgia in Dutch is heimwee
nostalgia in German is Heimweh
nostalgia in Hungarian is nosztalgia
nostalgia in Spanish is nostalgia
nostalgia in Swedish is nostalgi

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