Nostalgia Quotes
A gentle ache for the years gone by.
These quotes trace nostalgia from a personal pull toward familiar films to its surprising origin as a term for deep homesickness. For related memories, browse Childhood quotes.
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Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.
There are bands that I got into when I was 15, when I was mad at my dad and just wanted to be different. I don't think I'd give those bands half a chance now. But I hold some kind...
I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened.
I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
I think nostalgia used purely for the sake of emotional reminiscing is extremely boring.
When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.
Nostalgia can be extremely powerful in the right hands: think of the intense longing in the films Andrei Tarkovsky made after he left the U.S.S.R. They wring your soul.
Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.
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.
I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like 'Midnight in Paris.' Nostalgia isn't so enticing.
I think whatever generation you're in has a nostalgia for the generations past and the generations you weren't in.
I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it.
It was such an idyllic time when I grew up in Hong Kong. It was a British colony and very much geared towards buying the best of Britain. My childhood does have a huge influence on how we design. There...
For all the farcical invoking of Blitz spirit, Brexit isn’t merely an absurdist experiment in English nationalist nostalgia - it is the most audacious example yet of a futuristic Russian nationalism that seeks to divide and rule Europe.
Trump promised an 'America First' foreign policy rooted in the national interest, not in nostalgia.
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