John Green Quotes About Nostalgia

Quotes about: Nostalgia

• Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.58, Penguin

• We all use the future to escape the present.

  John Green

  Life, Alaska, Imagining The Future

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.47, Penguin

• Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me out of my sentimentality. For me at least, fiction is the only way I can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.

  John Green

  Memories, Lying, Writing

• Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.

  John Green

  Hipster, Alaska, Imagining The Future

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.46, Penguin

• And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

  John Green

  Alaska, Imagining The Future, Labyrinth

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.46, Penguin

• You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth.

  John Green

  Alaska, Imagining The Future, Labyrinth

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.46, Penguin

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