Nostalgia Quotes

Nostalgia Quote of the day

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

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

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.

Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

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

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.

Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a symbol of blue- collar nostalgia for a tough leader.

Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.

Unconsciously, I think I watch for a look, an expression, features or nostalgia that can summarize or more accurately reveal life.

Gide says the hell of this life is that between a hundred paths we have to choose only one, and live with nostalgia for the other ninety nine.

We're afraid to move on, that's why there's so much nostalgia on the internet... 'cause we don't wanna look forward, that's scary.

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.

Any time gone by was better.

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.

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.

The only art I'm interested in is the art I don't understand right away. If you understand it right away it really has no use except as nostalgia.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.

You know what nostalgia is, don't you? It's basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.

How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew?

People look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful white male

Remembrance of things past.

Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.

It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived.

I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.

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.

When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.

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.

Entering Malibu, I was overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia and long lost sadness, like seeing a home I had left a long time ago and had returned to.

A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.

It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.

Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.

Nostalgia is an illness for those who haven't realized that today is tomorrow's nostalgia.

You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind Standing on that windswept hillside Listening to the church bells chime Listen to the church bells chime In that magic time.

After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed's dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor.

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

Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight.

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.

The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit will always have for mother earth!

Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.