Nostalgia Quotes - Page 11

• The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.

  Amy Bloom

  Distance, Past, Comfort

  Amy Bloom (2007). “Away: A Novel”, p.186, Random House

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• how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet

  Robert Browning

  Sweet, Reflection, Mad

  'Confessions' (1864) st. 9

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• She wasn't a victim of fate, she was running her own risks, pushing beyond her own limits, experiencing things which, one day, in the silence of her heart, in the tedium of old age, she would remember almost with nostalgia - however absurd that might seem.

  Paulo Coelho

  Running, Heart, Fate

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• We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. -

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Letting Go

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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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• He remembered his mentor, Lou Kline, telling him in the nineties that rock and roll had peaked at Monterey Pop. They'd been in Lou's house in LA with its waterfalls, the pretty girls Lou always had, his car collection out front, and Bennie had looked into his idol's famous face and thought, You're finished. Nostalgia was the end - everyone knew that.

  Jennifer Egan

  Girl, Rocks, Idols

  Jennifer Egan (2011). “A Visit From the Goon Squad”, p.31, Hachette UK

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• I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.

  Laura Lippman

  Thinking, Talking, Cities

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• While I occasionally enjoy a bout of nostalgia, I would generally rather dream forward than backward.

  Robert Breault

  Dream, Enjoy

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• I have read all of Daniel Aaron's books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual and social memoir for which he will be remembered. His self-portrait is marked by personal tact and admirable restraint: he is and is not its subject. The Americanist is a vision of otherness: literary and academic friends and acquaintances, here and abroad. Eloquently phrased and free of nostalgia, it catches a lost world that yet engendered much of our own.

  Harold Bloom

  Believe, Book, Self

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• When the father dies, he writes, the son becomes his own father and his own son. He looks at is son and sees himself in the face of the boy. He imagines what the boy sees when he looks at him and finds himself becoming his own father. Inexplicably, he is moved by this. It is not just the sight of the boy that moves him, not even the thought of standing inside his father, but what he sees in the boy of his own vanished past. It is a nostalgia for his own life that he feels, perhaps, a memory of his own boyhood as a son to his father.

  Paul Auster

  Memories, Father, Moving

  Paul Auster (2007). “The Invention of Solitude”, p.102, Penguin

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• For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.

  Bret Michaels

  Artist, Want, Solo

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• Today I live on an island, in a house that is sad, hard, severe, that I built for myself, solitary on a sheer rock over the sea: a house that is the spectre, the secret image of prison. The image of my nostalgia. Maybe I never desired, not even then, to escape from jail. Man is not meant to live freely in freedom, but to be free inside a prison.

  Curzio Malaparte

  Men, Islands, Rocks

  Curzio Malaparte (2007). “Woman Like Me”, p.7, Troubador Publishing Ltd

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• I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and best-looking image capture medium available. I don't think it always will be. The digital image will get better, and it will eventually surpass the quality of the film image, but it isn't there yet.

  Rian Johnson

  Ghetto, Thinking, Get Better

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What seems real one moment is fiction the next
  and gone out of existence the moment after that.
  Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth,
  and change our only constancy.

  David Budbill

  Real, Enemy, Gone

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• Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!

  Walter Scott

  Dragons, Saint George, Castles

  Walter Scott (2016). “Ivanhoe, Complete: Scott's Works Vol.1”, p.297, VM eBooks

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• Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that Americans now look back to with such nostalgia was achieved only by a colossal reigning in of markets, by the gargantuan effort of mass, popular organizations like labor unions and of the people themselves, working through a series of democratically elected governments not daunted by the myths of the market.

  Thomas Frank

  Government, Organization, People

  "One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy". Book by Thomas Frank, 2000.

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• You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind Standing on that windswept hillside Listening to the church bells chime Listen to the church bells chime In that magic time.

  Van Morrison

  Time, Church Bells, Magic

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• Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than the present. It isn't. Or wasn't. Nostalgics want to cuddle the past like a puppy. But the past has bloody teeth and bad breath. I look into its mouth like a sorrowing dentist.

  Mal Peet

  Cousin, Believe, Kissing

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• Do one thing every day that scares you... Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own... Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

  Mary Schmich

  Thinking, Past, Fishing

  "The greatest commencement speech ever" by Valerie Strauss, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2014.

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• I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade because if every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.

  Nancy Lancaster

  Successful, Thinking, Museums

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

  Evan Esar

  Vacation, Like Love, Pleasure

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• Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Heart, Blow, Reality

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• I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia for the universal internally generated coloring of corrollas, furs, shells, carapaces and wings. For man it has been necessary to create both works and tools outside of himself. But it may be that he retains an obscure nostalgia to create them on his own body, to make them a part of it rather than projecting them outwards onto an independent surface, where he is free to retouch them as he sees fit, which is precisely what painting and art are.

  Roger Caillois

  Art, Independent, Men

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• 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.

  Fernando Sabino

  Ninety Nine, Path, Life Is

  Fernando Tavares Sabino (1967). “A time to meet”, Harvill Press

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• Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.

  Ned Rorem

  Art, Evoke, Sole

  Ned Rorem (2013). “Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary”, p.245, Open Road Media

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