Quotes About Nostalgia

Every so often we long to steal to the land of what-might-have-been. But that doesn't soften the ache we feel when reality sets back in.

Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties.

Lion was the one who pointed out that naming hotels after Millennial values -- the Truth, the Purpose, the Community -- now that his generation had reached the age where the luxury of billboard ethics had been derailed by the verities of life, might be lucrative. Aspirational nostalgia, he dubbed it.

As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline—the illusion of the good old days.

Franklin Pierce Adams pointed out, "Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

Two other illusions mislead us into thinking that things ain't what they used to be: we mistake the growing burdens of maturity and parenthood for a less innocent world, and we mistake a decline in our own faculties for a decline in the times.

and here is where unsentimental history and statistical literacy can change our view of modernity, for they show that nostalgia for a peaceable past is the biggest delusion of all

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. —L. P. Hartley

Two other illusions mislead us into thinking that things ain't what they used to be: we mistake the growing burdens of maturity and parenthood for a less innocent world, and we mistake a decline in our own faculties for a decline in the times.25 As the columnist Franklin Pierce Adams pointed out, "Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

As people ages, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline—the illusion of the good old days. And so every generation believes that the kids today are degrading the language and taking civilization down with it

As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline—the illusion of the good old days.4 And so every generation believes that the kids today are degrading the language and taking civilization down with it:

As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline—the illusion of the good old days.4 And so every generation believes that the kids today are degrading the language and taking civilization down with it:5

Saying something to your child and then realizing that you sound like one of your own parents: deja vieux, mamamorphosis, mnemomic, patterfamilias, vox pop, nagativism, parentriloquism.

and many people misremember the mid-20th century as a golden age of family togetherness.

Though we tend to remember bad events as well as we remember good ones, the negative coloring of the misfortunes fades with time, particularly the ones that happened to us. We are wired for nostalgia: in human memory, time heals most wounds.

As the columnist Franklin Pierce Adams pointed out, "Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.

I love the Potter films. I found them the most wonderful sort of escapism every year or two.

I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

I just tried to remember how far you can love and how many states you can experience when you're in love, especially the first love when you think you're going to die.

We keep this love in a photograph We made these memories for ourselves Where our eyes are never closing Hearts are never broken And time's forever frozen still

My love for ice cream emerged at an early age - and has never left!

There are some things (like first love and one's first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too closely.

You kind of never leave Arsenal. How many comebacks do you make? At one point it will turn out to be a bad move. We all love the first Rocky but I'm not too sure about the last one.