Quotes About Nostalgia

However, living in Tel Aviv, he was spared the fate of equivalent figures in English culture, an endless round of arts programmes where those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will be remembered only for remembering someone else.

Chewie, we're home

It made her—a bizarre trick—long for a past that was still in the future.

Long gone was the cheery welcome of the seaside hotelier, replaced by a weary nostalgia for the good old days.

He was asking for memories, too young himself to know that memories were only memories of memories.

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

Nostalgia, however, is not about being formed as a people; it is about borrowing experiences and moments from the past in order to experience something for ourselves in the present. Nostalgic individuals link themselves to a historically specific time or event in order to serve their personal desires for an experience in the moment. It is all about resourcing the self by consuming the past.

Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.

when I slip into the past, I become it.

It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry.

What is a husband He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long ago. At least he hopes he can-don't disappoint him.

Epitaph. Not next year, not the next one, Not the year after that. But ages From here, Clad in love stained sleeping bags, Dying with feet wrapped in endless Shirts and pillow cases, Crumbling with 99 flakes clutched Between thumb and palm, dripping Yellow cream from twig fingers, Basking our white haired chests on Green grassed parks under purple Skies. Laughing over coffee after Bath tubs of coffee have passed Through our guts. Huddled, lonely, Under heaped clothes, here lay us...

All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.

But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?

The persona of 'The Wonder Years' is something that's going to be with me forever. And I'm happy for that. It's nothing that I'd ever shy away from, and it makes me feel so good that it's something people still remember and talk about it and think of it so fondly.

I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.

I have such a personal life history with R&B - it's the first music I remember hearing, and it feels like a family tradition.

For some reason, the movies in the '40s have the best personalities: Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper, Betty Grable, Gene Tierney, and all those people. For some reason, I seem to gravitate more toward the '40s, and I don't necessarily know why. I just love the people.

Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn't usually some big political message behind what they were doing.

I try personally not to be nostalgic.

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

Peru, Peru. My heart's lighthouse.

I definitely grew up on Garfield. I just loved his pessimism.

Growing up, I had an insane crush on Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys.