Quotes About Nostalgia

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.

I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse.

I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that world. I do not want to be the person I am now in that world then. None of the forms nostalgia can take fits. I found childhood boring. I was glad it was over.

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.

Nostalgia is an amazing thing.

Nostalgia is, 'Hey, remember the other mall that used to be there?'

I am not among those who engage in nostalgia, because I think that locks you into a moment in time without thinking about where you are, what needs to be done now.

I don't want to be a slave to nostalgia.

I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.

Nostalgia has become so much more popular because technology and climate change are visibly present. It's easy to idolize the past, before those things were prevalent.

In some ways, I feel like I've always dabbled in nostalgia. It's just what I do; it comes naturally.

I think whatever generation you're in has a nostalgia for the generations past and the generations you weren't in.

I get flooded with nostalgia, I do. And it's okay. It's a good thing.

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

Literature is always about bygone times. It's always looking back in time with a certain perspective. I look at bygone life which no longer exists, and as I said, I look at it without nostalgia but without anger, either. I look at it with criticism and with compassion. I look at it with curiosity.

I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.

I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.

Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

It was such an idyllic time when I grew up in Hong Kong. It was a British colony and very much geared towards buying the best of Britain. My childhood does have a huge influence on how we design. There must be a little bit of that nostalgia - childhood is so special.

Nostalgia can be extremely powerful in the right hands: think of the intense longing in the films Andrei Tarkovsky made after he left the U.S.S.R. They wring your soul.

I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened.

'Mud' was a depository for a little more nostalgia and just a different kind of feeling, a different kind of mood. Something that's not so dark. Something that does actually have a happy ending and is a little more hopeful.