Nostalgia Quotes - Page 9

• The issue is Kinkade's ideology, and particularly his nostalgia; his paintings endlessly trumpet a nonexistent past when times were simpler and morality more pure. There's nothing wrong with this, but it stands at odds with a contemporary art world that looks to the future for inspiration. We value complexity and innovation, and distrust saccharine pictures of the past.

  Paddy Johnson

  Art, Inspiration, Past

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• For us, the best time is always yesterday.

  Tatyana Tolstaya

  Yesterday, Best Times

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• I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic system was (rightfully) dismantled, it was not necessarily replaced by another form of protection. What I mean is--I never thought to ask a suitor the same challenging questions my father might have asked him, in a different age.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Father, Believe, Mean

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.269, A&C Black

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• I get sentimental over the music of the ’90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I’m concerned the ’90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I loathed at the time, even the stuff that gave me stomach cramps.

  Rob Sheffield

  Stuff, Eras, Sentimental

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.7, Crown Archetype

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• I believe that white frame house is worthy of more than a nod of nostalgia, because the values President Clinton learned there and in Hope formed the core of his political philosophy.

  Mack McLarty

  Philosophy, Believe, White

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• 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.

  Nick Mancuso

  Sadness, Home, Long

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• Nostalgia wouldn't begin to capture your sense of loss, ... The Way We Really Are Coming to Terms With America's Changing Families.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Loss, America, Way

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• The essence of nostalgia is an awareness that what has been will never be again.

  Milton S. Eisenhower

  Essence, Awareness, Has Beens

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• Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Love Is, Process, Pleasant

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “EMILY STAR - Complete Trilogy: Emily of New Moon + Emily Climbs + Emily's Quest: Classic of Children's Literature”, p.244, e-artnow

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• A horror novel should reveal to you that you are falling apart. That there are ways your imagination can be made different. Can threaten what you think is. You should be holding onto that tree or rock screaming. Or laughing. Not at absurdity, either: absurdism is just a bourgeois and reactionary nostalgia for good, stable meaning.

  Tony Burgess

  Fall, Thinking, Rocks

  "The book should be something you protect yourself from by returning to your life". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. August 31, 2015.

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• For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss.

  Michael Chabon

  Loss, Thinking, Emotion

  "Michael Chabon’s Vinyl Draft". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 2012.

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• There would be no call for ecological campaigning had nature not been exploited and abused. We experience the ground now bringing forth thistles as soil erosion devastates formerly arable land and deserts overtake fertile farms. Rivers and the atmosphere are polluted thoughtlessly and we are fearful of the consequences of a depleted ozone layer and the devastation of the greenhouse effect. We are not quite at home in our world, and somewhere in each of us there is a nostalgia for a paradise that has been lost.

  Desmond Tutu

  Home, Rivers, Ozone

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• To put it bluntly, we now need to reverse course. We need more highly skilled small farmers in more places all across America - not as a matter of nostalgia for the agrarian past but as a matter of national security. For nations that lose the ability to substantially feed themselves will find themselves as gravely compromised in their international dealings as nations that depend on foreign sources of oil presently do. But while there are alternatives to oil, there are no alternatives to food.

  Michael Pollan

  Past, Oil, America

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• I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.

  Jeanne Moreau

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe nostalgia has many appearances and that it's not just the privilege of adults. I think children too can have nostalgia. It's one of mankind's most shared emotions. It's one of the things that makes us human. When you live, you lose things. It's a fact of life. So it's natural for everyone to have nostalgia.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Children, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.midnighteye.com

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• Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.

  Shirley Temple

  Memories, Past, Disappear

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• Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.

  James Wolcott

  Entitled

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• Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.

  Miuccia Prada

  Complicated, Refuse, Subjects

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My idea is always to avoid nostalgia.

  Miuccia Prada

  Ideas

  "Prada, the brand that never follows trends" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2010.

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• A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained by nostalgia for the old objectivism, which was in any case used only to justify arrogance, tyranny, and cruelty. People [forget] ... how utterly hateful the old pre-humanitarianism world was.

  Don Cupitt

  People, Arrogance, Would Be

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• Ressentiment is always to some degree a determinant of the romantic type of mind. At least this is so when the romantic nostalgia for some past era (Hellas, the Middle Ages, etc.) is not primarily based on the values of that period, but on the wish to escape from the present. Then all praise of the “past” has the implied purpose of downgrading present-day reality.

  Max Scheler

  Past, Reality, Mind

  Max Scheler, Harold J. Bershady (1992). “On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings”, p.132, University of Chicago Press

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• Which doesn't mean, of course, that I'd stopped loving her, that I'd forgotten her, or that her image had paled; on the contrary; in the form of a quiet nostalgia she remained constantly within me; I longed for her as one longs for something definitively lost.

  Milan Kundera

  Mean, Quiet, Forgotten

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• Nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Long, Tomorrow, Felt

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not like I'm all into nostalgia and history, it's just that I can't stand the way things are now

  Novala Takemoto

  Way, I Can

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• We didn't think the library was funny looking in it's faux- Greek splendor, nor did we find the cuisine limited or bland, or the movies at the Michigan theater relentlessly American and mindless. These were opinions I came to later, after I became a denizen of a City, an expatriate anxious to distance herself from the bumpkin ways of her youth. I am suddenly consumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Girl, Distance, Reading

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