Nostalgia Quotes - Page 10

• Nostalgias were peeled from it long ago.

  Donald Justice

  Long Ago, Long

  Donald Justice (2009). “Collected Poems”, p.160, Knopf

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• I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose, I wonder, of all this restlessness? I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

  Vikram Seth

  Dream, Drinking, California

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• ...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.

  Margaret Atwood

  Hunger, Jimmy

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• ...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.

  Sherman Alexie

  Cancer, Heart, Dying

  Sherman Alexie (2012). “Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories”, p.116, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature...yes, that's it: just thinking about trees and their indifferent majesty and our love for them teaches us how ridiculous we are - vile parasites squirming on the surface of the earth - and at the same time how deserving of life we can be, when we can honor this beauty that owes us nothing.

  Muriel Barbery

  Thinking, Tree, Feelings

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, 2008.

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

  Pablo Neruda

  Solitude, Hours

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Spiritual, Sadness, Sick

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• Remember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Important, Remember, Figures

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story”, p.21, Granta Books

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• Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give us warm comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evolutionary purpose could nostalgia serve?

  Julian Barnes

  Giving, Feelings, Age

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• It was about the preciousness of that, and how they viewed those birds as art, as something valuable. I didn't care one way or another back then, but now, thinking about my grandparents - who are still alive but getting older - I see the birds as sort of time capsules. Now I go home during the holidays and they hold a lot of weight in terms of nostalgia and memory. Now they mean everything.

  Nick Cave

  Art, Memories, Holiday

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• His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he'd gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover without even the temporary relief of an actual relationship in between.

  Lev Grossman

  Crush, Depressing, Relief

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.57, Penguin

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• Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either

  Garrison Keillor

  Mother, Self, Sin

  Garrison Keillor (2014). “The Keillor Reader”, p.28, Penguin

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• In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access; in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion; he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart.

  John Edward Williams

  Heart, Maturity, Heaven

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• We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults , to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.

  Adam Phillips

  Mother, Psychology, Understanding

  "Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life".

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• He may not see the King's antique apparel on kids in the Hall, but he does feel a tinge of nostalgia. The amount of teens wearing the Led Zeppelin '77 tour T-shirts walking around the Rock Hall is absurd. Absurd, ... I saw them on that tour and didn't even buy a shirt. It tells you what these kids feel about music. People take music very seriously.

  Howard Kremer

  Kings, Kids, Rocks

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• They remember when their parents went out there, had picnics on the Beck's Mill grounds. It was the nostalgia of it.

  Larry Nelson

  Parent, Picnics, Remember

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• We're not like a nostalgia act, or the normal classic rock act - we're a really good musical organization, ... You're going to hear some blues, some jazz, a little of everything. The guys in the band are great musicians. When we play, we're there for real. It's not about posing, strutting in tights, that kind of stuff. It's all about music, and I've always respected my audience that way.

  Steve Miller

  Real, Rocks, Play

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• He is already past the high point in his life and coming down on the other side. By next week he'll be nostalgia. He's 12 years old, and it's over for him.

  Tony Kornheiser

  Past, Next Week, Years

  "Jeff Maier is back in baseball's limelight / Fan who aided Yankees in '96 sets record as college hitter" by Stan Grossfeld, www.sfgate.com. April 23, 2006.

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• The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given us as much terror as we can take. We have paid a high enough price for the nostalgia of the whole and the one, for the reconciliation of the concept and the sensible, of the transparent and the communicable experience. Under the general demand for slackening and for appeasement, we can hear the mutterings of the desire for a return of terror, for the realization of the fantasy to seize reality. The answer is: Let us wage a war on totality; let us be witnesses to the unpresentable; let us activate the differences.

  Jean-Francois Lyotard

  War, Reality, Differences

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• Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.

  James Buchan

  War, Iraq, People

  "The superpowers' balance sheet". www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2006.

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• As life speeds by, nostalgia has a shorter pregnancy. Games still in progress are given the straight-to-sepia status of "Instant Classics" no matter how oxymoronic that phrase appears.

  Steve Rushin

  Pregnancy, Games, Progress

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• Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we [Europeans] shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Reality, Opposites, Giving

  "America" by Jean Baudrillard, translated by Chris Turner, (p. 95), 1988.

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• As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means.

  Chris Ware

  Mean, Solitude, Realizing

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• We all know the sound a camera makes when it snaps a picture. Even some of the digitals do it for nostalgia’s sake.

  Jay Asher

  Cameras, Sound, Sake

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.49, Penguin

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• Unconsciously, I think I watch for a look, an expression, features or nostalgia that can summarize or more accurately reveal life.

  Steve McCurry

  Thinking, Expression, Watches

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