Nostalgic Quotes

• There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.

  Paul Simon

  Romantic Love, Hopeful, Sound Doctrine

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• I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.

  Walt Disney

  Memories, Future, Past

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• We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

  George Eliot

  Children, Childhood, Earth

  George Eliot (2012). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

  Doug Larson

  Time, Rough Edges, Nostalgia

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• Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much.

  Ai Weiwei

  Crazy, Cities, Enjoy

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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• Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Real, People

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• True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

  Florence King

  Memories, Literature, Ephemeral

  "Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye". Book by Florence King, 1989.

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• Rather than getting nostalgic...embrace the new opportunities and challenges available to you now.

  Richard Branson

  Positivity, Opportunity, Challenges

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• People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

  Bill Watterson

  Children, People, Childhood

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• I like to add personal touches to my decorating style, including photographs and nostalgic items that remind me of family and home.

  Karlie Kloss

  Home, Style, Add

  "Karlie Kloss Wants You to Decorate Her Apartment". Interview with Samantha Leal, www.marieclaire.com. September 22, 2016.

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• We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good.

  Cornel West

  Community, Important, Way

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• With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.

  Douglas Coupland

  Clueless, Years, Knowing

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• There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.

  Michael Ian Black

  Pain, Parent, Feelings

  Michael Ian Black (2012). “You're Not Doing It Right: Tales of Marriage, Sex, Death, and Other Humiliations”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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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 don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

  Lou Reed

  Nostalgia, Mines

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• It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back

  Bill Vaughan

  Safe, Chance, Nostalgia

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• There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook.

  David Benioff

  Giving, Thanks, Nostalgia

  David Benioff (2005). “When the Nines Roll Over: And Other Stories”, p.73, Penguin

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• I am nostalgic of an era I never knew.

  Lana Del Rey

  Eras

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• Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar.

  William Faulkner

  Home, August, Air

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.123, Modern Library

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• Unreal. I'm feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record.

  Barry Lyga

  Feelings, Twenties, Records

  Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.348, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm not a very nostalgic person. I don't really look at the past and summon up regrets, or self-congratulations, it just is not a mechanism that operates very strongly in me. So I neither have regrets nor occasions for self-congratulations.

  Leonard Cohen

  Regret, Congratulations, Past

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• Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade, not just a sickness in metaphor but in fact as well. It can change the way one looks at the world; the faces one sees in the street look not just indifferent but ugly... perhaps even malignant. Homesickness is a real sickness--the ache of the uprooted plant.

  Stephen King

  Beautiful, Real, Mind

  Stephen King (1994). “Different Seasons”, Signet Book

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• As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means.

  Chris Ware

  Mean, Solitude, Nostalgia

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• I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change.

  Stacy Schiff

  Children, Library, World

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• I've always had a talent for recognizing when I am in a moment worth being nostalgic for.

  Lena Dunham

  Life Lesson, Self Reflection, Talent

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.176, Random House

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