Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome. — Angela Carter
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual. — Abbie Hoffman
How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew? — Che Guevara
When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning. — Jean Baudrillard
We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known. — Carson Mccullers
Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories. — Steven Wright
Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past. — Olga Kurylenko
Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma. — Victor Hugo
I love listening to old records to keep nostalgic feeling; it allows me to not lose the love for hip-hop. — Rakim
It’s great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. — George Foreman
Reminisce about the little episodes that we shared together — Shing02
Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now. — Alice Childress
I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past. — Walt Disney
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it. — George Eliot
Rather than getting nostalgic...embrace the new opportunities and challenges available to you now. — Richard Branson
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting. — John Green
There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful. — Paul Simon
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children. — Bill Watterson
There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves. — Joe L. Wheeler
Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian. — Raymond Aron
Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: "Open Bar." — Bill Geist
Nostalgic Image Quotes
Feeling Nostalgic Quotes
I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station. — Eddie Vedder
When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives. — Albert Camus
People talk about the 1960s in a nostalgic way, but to me it was terrifying. People were getting assassinated. There was Vietnam. There were race riots. It felt like everything was going to get blown up sky-high. It didn’t feel like flower power. It felt like Armageddon. — Sam Shepard
With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless. — Doug Coupland
With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless. — Douglas Coupland
Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: "Open Bar." — William E. Geist
We were taking some photos one day in front of one of these old antebellum homes, and one of us said the word. And we all kind of stopped and said, 'That could be a name!' ... It just feels kind of country and nostalgic. — Dave Haywood
[My muse] feels nostalgic for Japan, and, perhaps strangely, for the pioneer days of America. — Quentin S. Crisp
I just hope the film [Aquarius] doesn't feel overly nostalgic because too much nostalgia for me leads to depression. I think Clara is very pragmatic. — Sonia Braga
For a lot of us, we feel nostalgic about something with distance, and then [when] we go back to that thing, you remember why we left in the first place. — Michelle Gomez
Being Nostalgic Quotes
Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden. — Thalassa Cruso
It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back — Bill Vaughan
People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back? — Robert Wyatt
I'm convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over and nothing to be nostalgic about. — Carrie Fulton Phillips
I don't like coming home. It keeps me from being nostalgic, which by nature I am. Even before the plane begins its descent, I find myself dreading the questions left unanswered by my childhood. — Stewart O'Nan
When you've lived through the golden age of photojournalism, there's no point in being nostalgic. — David Burnett
I'm too busy to be nostalgic, which is one of the reasons to keep busy. I'm not a very sentimental person. — Frederick Wiseman
It's nice to have been around long enough to be a part of people's lives. A lot of people who come to my show are real nostalgic for the '80s. — Sheena Easton
If you repeat what you did in the last tour, the likelihood is it's not gonna be successful twice. People are nostalgic about a particular record, because it's about the time when they were listening to that record. But if you do it again, they're like, I'm not that guy anymore. — Kelly Jones
I think you can only be nostalgic for something you've lost. — Jim Jarmusch
Some Nostalgic Quotes
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 Breault
I think as humans we're nostalgic creatures and that's what we do. We go back to things that have a semblance of something comforting, or enough time passes that it seems cool again, or maybe it's something that some people didn't even experience. — Jeremy Scott
I can see how some people get sentimental about how we used to do things in 'the good old days' but in a way I just think they are being nostalgic for the way they were brought up. — Michael Bierut
When you're born, you're pure. Unspoiled and trusting. Some say, it's the only time we're perfect. You're also born covered in blood and placenta. No one gets nostalgic about that. — Christopher Titus
Usually, we have some of those nostalgic moments like, "Oh my god, I can't believe we survived that day," because filmmaking is such a wild roller coaster ride. — Catherine Hardwicke
Traveling to Europe and traveling in the U.S.A. was a much different experience. 'On the Road' exemplified everything glamorous that was happening on this side of the planet. The book puts off some kind of sweet melody - part hope for the world, part nostalgic. — Edward Ruscha
The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games. — Adam Gopnik
Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar. — William Faulkner
Fond Memories Quotes
I look back at the past as fond memories but I'm able to move forwards in a new light, like I'm reborn. — Brendon Urie
May the moments of today become fond memories for tomorrow. Happy Birthday — Rob Jackson
Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time. — Haruki Murakami
Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. — Sayings
Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past. — Homaro Cantu
Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It's a beautiful place, with four seasons up in Wisconsin. And really wonderful people. — Laurel Clark
Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America... — Walt Disney
I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now. — Jonathan Carroll
I instantly connected with the sport and I have fond memories of growing up on my skating rink that my dad made for us in our backyard. — P. K. Subban
To this day, I have the most fond memories of some of my old toys. — Michael Keaton
As for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, [and] steel their emotions against decent human sympathy. — H. P. Lovecraft
Maybe I`m getting to the age when I`m starting to be senile or nostalgic or both, but people are so angry now. You used to be able to disagree with people and still be friends. Now you hear these talk shows, and everyone who believes differently from you is a moron and an idiot - both on the Right and the Left. — Clint Eastwood
I'm totally not a nostalgic person. I always look to the future and as much as I've enjoyed the ride until now and the different phases, I'm more excited about the next music. — David Guetta
It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia for the return to the most archaic place of absolute commencement — Jacques Derrida
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. — David Benioff
Did you see the statue topple? Bill Clinton got nostalgic seeing something that big in a beret go down. — Craig Kilborn
All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says. — Haruki Murakami
I’ll put it out there: I am scarred by the nostalgic indicipherability of my own desires; I an engulfed by the intimidating unknown, pushed through darkness and dragged down by the irretrievable past sweetness of my memories. — Anne Sexton
There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them. — Glen Cook
I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed. — Rick Moranis
Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mashups, and by fandom responding to the dwindling outposts of centralized mass media. It is a culture of reaction without action. — Jaron Lanier
The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money. — Rick Wright
October, here's to you. Here's to the heady aroma of the frost-kissed apples, the winey smell of ripened grapes, the wild-as-the-wind smell of hickory nuts and the nostalgic whiff of that first wood smoke. — Ken Weber
The magic that you find in surf music, I think, is really timeless. You know, when I was very young, I was in a surf band. Surf music is an instrumental music that still means a lot to me, not in an nostalgic way, but as something that really gets to the heart of the guitar itself. — John Zorn
I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way of personal history that they polish it up and make it shine like a treasured heirloom. — Will Self
It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good old days' when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy. — Sherry Turkle
I think my magical dream land would have all of my friends from high school and elementary school. I'm extremely nostalgic so my closest friends are people from my childhood. — Tyra Banks
Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nostalgic for a simpler, slower time. — Matt Ridley
I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change. — Stacy Schiff
I always have been and will remain someone who loves real, 3D, substantial books. And I don't believe that it's a wistful, nostalgic interest like vinyl collectors. It's not the same thing. — Art Spiegelman
I like to add personal touches to my decorating style, including photographs and nostalgic items that remind me of family and home. — Karlie Kloss
I jump from one thing to the next but try and strike a balance. But it's not nostalgic in the sense of 'those were the good old days and now we're not there'. I don't think like that. Not my way. — Ian MacKaye
We are on the verge of losing the traditional idea of the family, especially in Japan, where the declining birth rate shows no signs of stopping. This is precisely why I think we should consider with a sense of urgency what the new image of "family" should be like, and not fall into the nostalgism that days gone by were just better. — Mamoru Hosoda
My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'. — Gerhard Richter
A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of psychological states; it may be a nostalgic glance backward; it may be any one of an infinite number of concepts, none of which may have any possible bearing upon its degree of newness. — Ben Shahn
We are so habitually nostalgic by now that we anticipate looking back in the midst of enjoyment, look forward to watching the videos we're taking of our children even as we make them. — Deborah Tall
Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous. — Dick Cavett
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