Nostalgia Quotes

• I don't think nostalgia is very useful to me. There is a story to be told, there's behaviour to create or to bring to the screen that will help tell that story, and nostalgia is just not really a big part of my emotional package.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Story
  • Nostalgia
  • Behaviour

• 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
  • Feelings
  • Tears

• It is distance that creates nostalgia.

  

  Georges Rodenbach
  • Distance
  • Creates
  • Nostalgia

• The effort of trying to turn grief into regret, to live entirely on past nourishment, even to keep the sharper parts of nostalgia credible (he found himself beginning to doubt and struggle with the intricacies of the smaller memories), and, most of all, the fearful absence of anything that could begin to take their place, had worn him down.

  

  Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Memories
  • Regret
  • Nostalgia

• While Otto ran here and there, carefully choosing places to urinate, I felt over every inch of my body the scratches of sexual abandonment, the danger of drowning in scorn for myself and nostalgia for him. I got up and went back along the path; I whistled again, and waited for Otto to return.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Choosing
  • Scorn
  • Abandonment

• Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Essence
  • Nostalgia
  • Rebellion

• Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Today
  • Racism
  • Nostalgia

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