“ An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House and Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had. ”
- Robert Hughes- Copy
- 2.7K
“ 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- Copy
- 488
“ Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories… but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted deja vu. ”
- Florence E. King- Copy
- 787
“ Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear? ”
- Jack London- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now! ”
- Alice Childress- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools. ”
- John Greenleaf Whittier- Copy
- 3.8K
“ That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again. ”
- A. E. Housman- Copy
- 2.4K
“ I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. ”
- Callimachus- Copy
- 3K
“ People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable. ”
- Mick Jagger- Copy
- 102
“ When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. ”
- William Butler Yeats- Copy
- 2K
“ To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. ”
- Margaret Fairless Barber- Copy
- 1.1K
“ A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 3K
“ 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… ”
- David Duchovny- Copy
- 3.8K
“ It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange… ”
- Carson McCullers- Copy
- 1.5K
“ It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past. ”
- Robert Brault- Copy
- 3K
“ Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. ”
- Franklin P. Adams- Copy
- 2.2K
“ If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning. ”
- Griff Niblack- Copy
- 3K
“ It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back. ”
- Bill Vaughn- Copy
- 2.4K
“ He is already past the high point in his life and coming down on the other side. By next week he'll be nostalgia. He's 12 years old, and it's over for him. ”
- Tony Kornheiser- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Nostalgia is a process by which dreams become memories without ever coming true. ”
- Robert Brault- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain. ”
- Mignon McLaughlin- Copy
- 447
“ Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: You find the present tense and the past perfect. ”
- Doug Larson- Copy
- 416
“ It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything. ”
- Juan Ramón Jiménez- Copy
- 2.8K
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