Nostalgia Quotes

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

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.

If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.

Gide says the hell of this life is that between a hundred paths we have to choose only one, and live with nostalgia for the other ninety nine.

Any time gone by was better.

I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.

How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew?

Remembrance of things past.

When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.

It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived.

My idea is always to avoid nostalgia.

How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present? You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more.

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.

A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.

It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.

Nostalgia is an illness for those who haven't realized that today is tomorrow's nostalgia.

After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed's dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor.

There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook.

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

Things have gotten so bad in this country, you look back at Richard Nixon with nostalgia.