Nostalgia Quotes - Page 5

• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted d?j? vu.

  Florence King

  Memories, Style, Mind

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• My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?

  Jeanne Moreau

  Hiking, Climbing, Steps

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• Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature, and my love of film...

  Jonathan Lethem

  Thinking, Matter, Energy

  "‘No, I don’t paint anymore’ – Bookmunch Classic Interview: Jonathan Lethem". Interview with Peter Wild, bookmunch.wordpress.com. October 31, 2013.

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

  A. E. Housman

  Land, Shining, Lost

  A Shropshire Lad no. 40, l. 5 (1896)

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

  Alice Childress

  Feet, Forever, Sake

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• I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.

  Robert Wyatt

  Real, Clouds, Honest

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• 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.

  David Hobson

  Patience, Eye, Garden

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• It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

  Anatole Broyard

  Love, Hygiene, Waiting

  Anatole Broyard (1974). “Aroused by Books”, Random House (NY)

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• I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.

  Kabir Bedi

  Old Days, Good Old Days

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• I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful.

  Max von Sydow

  Meaningful, Important, Remember

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• I hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it.

  Marc Ribot

  Hate, Europe, Want

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• 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

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

  William Faulkner

  Rain, Home, Thinking

  William Faulkner (1955). “Faulkner's county: tales of Yoknapatawpha county”

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• People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.

  Mick Jagger

  Selfish, People, Want

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• To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

  Margaret Barber

  Inspirational, Life, Memories

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• Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Memories, Flower, Past

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard”

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• 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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• Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.

  Sloane Crosley

  Heart, Vintage, People

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• You can't have a better tomorrow if
  you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

  Charles Kettering

  Letting Go, Time, Attitude

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• Things have gotten so bad in this country, you look back at Richard Nixon with nostalgia.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Looks

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• You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Home, World, Sides

  Sue Monk Kidd (2006). “The Mermaid Chair”, p.53, Penguin

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• I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.

  David Cassidy

  Play, Shows

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• Nostalgia could be considered a disease because you're living now.

  Todd Haynes

  Disease

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  Florence King

  Mind, Literature, World

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• It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past.

  Robert Breault

  Past, Way, Nostalgic

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