Nostalgia Quotes - Page 18

• If the fall of man consists in the separation of god and the devil the serpent must have appeared out of the middle of the apple when Eve bit like the original worm in it, splitting it in half and sundering everything which was once one into a pair of opposites, so the world is Noah's ark on the sea of eternity containing all the endless pairs of things, irreconcilable and inseparable, and heat will always long for cold and the back for the front and smiles for tears and mutt for jeff and no for yes with the most unutterable nostalgia there is.

  Diane Arbus

  Fall, Men, Sea

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• . . .I really ought to have recognized it for what it was and, perhaps, to have stopped right there - for it was nostalgia, and what inspires nostalgia has been dead a long time

  Michael Chabon

  Long, Inspire, Ought

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• There is no place for nostalgia in a progressive world. The new school not only ignores nostalgia, but condemns it. The world of yesterday is becoming an isolated world of remembrances and echoes so forbidden that, to decorate the present with it, you must often do so with a sense of humor or belong to a select group.

  Eric Sloane

  School, Echoes, Yesterday

  Eric Sloane (1956). “American Yesterday. [With illustrations.]”, New York : W. Funk

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• Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be realized, most to be set aside as time went on, one or two to persist for a lifetime. It was knowing when to abandon a dream, perhaps, that mattered and distinguished the successful people in life from the sad, embittered persons who never moved on from the first of life's great disappointments. Or from the airy dreamers who never really lived life at all.

  Mary Balogh

  Dream, Disappointment, Successful

  Mary Balogh (2008). “Simply Perfect”, p.42, Delacorte Press

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• A spot whereon the founders lived and died
  Seemed once more dear than life; ancestral trees,
  Or gardens rich in memory glorified
  Marriages, alliances, and families,
  And every bride's ambition satisfied.

  William Butler Yeats

  Memories, Ambition, Garden

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol X: Later Article: Uncollected Articles, Reviews, and Radio Broadcasts Written After 1900”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• Do people think I'm cool because I was in a movie when I was a child? No. Well, maybe a little bit more than they used to. There's definitely a nostalgia factor.

  Mara Wilson

  Children, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think whatever we've done as a band at The Clientele, we've done because it's so natural. Our "old" sound isn't really like any actual bands from old times. We take elements of past music styles and past sounds as a way to... this is going to sound very pretentious and perhaps overly thought-out, but as a way to strike chords of vague nostalgia, and strike chords of, "I've heard this before somewhere." That's what a lot of our music is about in terms of the words and ideas behind it, so we really use old sounds as a way to serve that agenda.

  Alasdair MacLean

  Past, Thinking, Style

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Nostalgia is partly illusion in that we remember things differently as we get older, etc. But that doesn't mean, when historians look back on the 1950s, say, from the year 2090, it won't be judged as a saner, slower, less narcissistic, more family-focused, and economically secure time.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Mean, Years, Looks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People do forget there is still a lot of nostalgia in Russia for the Soviet Union.

  Clarissa Ward

  People, Forget, Soviet Union

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• I think that right now, the global political crisis that we see all over the place has to do with virulent nostalgia. Everywhere, people are talking about taking us back to the good old days. Whether that's the "caliphate," or Britain before the EU, or "Make America Great Again." But, we can't go back and many people wouldn't want to go back even if we could.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Thinking, Talking, America

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• People gravitate towards their own era, nostalgia therapy is a real thing that's being tinkered with.

  Charlie Brooker

  Real, People, Eras

  Source: collider.com

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• Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?

  Dennis Cooper

  Eras, Guillotine, Feels

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• Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.

  Michael Marcus

  Mathematics, Our Time, Supreme

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• I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia.

  Francine Prose

  Children, Grief, Book

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• I was very surprised how many people were earnestly reminiscing about the '80s. It's such a stupid thing to do, like, to be honestly invested in nostalgia. It never even occurred to me to do that.

  Michael Ian Black

  Stupid, People, Reminiscing

  "Michael Ian Black on the many versions of 'himself'". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. October 22, 2013.

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• 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.

  Ernest Cline

  Our Generation, Generations, Nostalgic

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• I get emotional when young people get nostalgic about my work. That's why it's called nostalgia. Sometimes I even cry.

  Mithun Chakraborty

  Emotional, People, Sometimes

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• From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost . . . .

  David Nicholls

  Views, Desire, Useless

  David Nicholls (2014). “Us”, p.336, Hachette UK

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• If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Window, Partnership, Old Time

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• I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is different in small towns, and frankly, it is different.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.cliffsnotes.com

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• The Atlantic Ocean was something then.

  John Guare

  Ocean, Atlantic Ocean

  "Fictional character: Lou Pascal". "Atlantic City", 1980.

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• As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth.

  Thelma Golden

  Mother, Children, Rose

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• Children who were very truly pious in a Catholic childhood are apt to retain a nostalgia for the absolute.

  Sonia Orwell

  Children, Childhood, Catholic

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• Nostalgia isn't a business model

  John Naughton

  Models, Business Models

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

  Raymond Aron

  Atheism, Events, Chance

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