Nostalgia Quotes
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I don't do nostalgia. The phrase 'the good old days' never passes my lips.
Nicholas Haslam
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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
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The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things.
Richie Benaud
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Esperando (Cuando Cuba Sea Libre) is probably one of the most personal songs from the new [September, 2007] CD, "90 Millas" . . . as it really speaks about the celebration, nostalgia and emotion that will happen the day Cuba is free. If we're to move forward in Cuba, we really have to have a lot of forgiveness for each other and look towards the future.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
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It is not lust that disunites, dissolves and annihilates. It is rather the mesmerizing complications of sentimentality, artificial jealousies, words that inebriate and deceive, the rhetoric of parting and eternal fidelities, literary nostalgia – all the histrionics of love.
Valentine de Saint-Point
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I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.
Umberto Eco
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I love the feeling of nostalgia vying with the present. That can be from song to song, or within the same song.
Britta Phillips
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Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met.
R. C. Sproul, Jr.
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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
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There is a lovely warmness about feelings of nostalgia as though in one's head one is putting on a pair of comfy old slippers and curling up in front of a fire.
Bill Geist
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I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.
Robert Wyatt
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Music can be a way for me to think back a lot of the time, almost like an opening into all the nostalgia I never express.
Amber Mark
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
Carson McCullers
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Remembrance of things past.
William Shakespeare
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I have complicated feelings about nostalgia. I think that sometimes it can be dangerous. It can airbrush the truth, or fictionalize the truth, which leads to the worst kind of sentimentality. But I'm also a sentimental person who feels quite a bit of nostalgia.
Will Sheff Okkervil River
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I think the whole nostalgia for the forty year gap for Sylvester Stallone was bigger than the movie Creed, but it's good because the movie still gets recognized with Stallone's involvement. I'm sure the director Ryan Coogler is still proud of his film, but it's very hard to nominate a director.
Bun B
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Nostalgia is an illness
Zeena Schreck
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Nostalgia used to be called mal du Suisse - the Swiss sickness.
Christian Rudder
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Nostalgia is not what it used to be.
Simone Signoret
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One day we're going to look back at $1,700 with nostalgia. People are going to be shocked at how inexpensive gold was when it could be snapped up for such a bargain price.
Peter Schiff
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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
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Nostalgia doesn't make sense, because it's like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I'm inside my memories the same way I'm inside my everyday life.
Agnes Varda
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I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia, fear of unknown animals, food fantasies, nocturnal emissions, hobbies, choice of radio program, changes in out look and so forth.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.
Brad Mehldau