- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
- Curiosity
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The thing I always liked best about touring abroad was constantly running into different people, different cultures, different foods. It really pumped up my batteries... I'm constantly playing to a demographically diverse audience... one generation is driven by nostalgia, the next by curiosity. And that's why I have no plans to retire.
- Future
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.
- Fire
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nothing
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.
- Aspiring
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always felt that we oldies can learn so much from them and draw from them inspiration in our flagging and rickety years.
- Habit
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
- Late
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.
- Hope
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of designers still have nostalgia for the past. As for the furniture in the future, I hope they use less of real wood. Conservation in wood is necessary.
- Good Old Days
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
- England
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a cynicism about my origins, a belittling of them, or an excessive nostalgia for them.
- Play
- |
- Nov 07, 2020