Nostalgia Quotes - Page 17

• Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.

  Sherman Alexie

  Doomed

  "Redeemers". Interview with Matt Dellinger, www.newyorker.com. April 21, 2003.

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• When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.

  Nicole Krauss

  Used, Lost, Pathology

  "Have a heart". Interview With Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2005.

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• The artist secretes nostalgia around life.

  Cyril Connolly

  Artist

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• I've decided to do what I want to do in life and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided not to participate in any sort of nostalgia in which I'm marginalized as a pop icon of yesteryear.

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Artist, Icons, Yesteryear

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

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• The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Past, Sea, Age

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.129, Cambridge University Press

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• By the eighties, a lot of radio stations had started playing "Sixties" music. They called it "Classic Rock," because they knew we'd be upset if they came right out and called it what it is, namely "middle-aged-person nostalgia music.

  Dave Barry

  Rocks, Upset, Radio

  Dave Barry (1991). “Turning 40”, Vintage

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• The fall or scrapping of a cultural world puts us all into the same archetypal cesspool, engendering nostalgia for earlier conditions.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Fall, World, Conditions

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• I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.

  Alberto Manguel

  Giving Up, Memories, Book

  Alberto Manguel (2014). “A History of Reading”, p.305, Penguin

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• Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.

  Georges Bernanos

  Obsession, Purity, Impurity

  Georges Bernanos (2000). “Monsieur Ouine”, p.213, U of Nebraska Press

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• Esperando (Cuando Cuba Sea Libre) is probably one of the most personal songs from the new [September, 2007] CD, "90 Millas" . . . as it really speaks about the celebration, nostalgia and emotion that will happen the day Cuba is free. If we're to move forward in Cuba, we really have to have a lot of forgiveness for each other and look towards the future.

  Gloria Estefan

  Song, Moving, Sea

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• Nostalgia is also a trait of the organizations that I call lodges - everything from corporate cultures to religious sects. Their bonding power often exceeds loyalty to family or country because they create intimacy through shared ideals and beliefs, ceremonies, stories, and legends, and depend on it for their survival. The message is clear: Don't question what we're doing. Just appreciate how long we've been doing it.

  Jennifer James

  Loyalty, Country, Religious

  Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• Kitchens were different then, too - not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling smells different from a frozen pie thawing.

  Peg Bracken

  Smell, Pie, Kitchen

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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

  Joseph Brodsky

  Evil, Exhausted, Argument

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• We have the bad habit, some of us, of looking back to a time - almost any time will do - when society was stable and orderly, family ties stronger and deeper, love more lasting and faithful, and so on. Let me be your Cassandra prophesying after the fact, and a long study of the documents in the case: it was never true, that is, no truer than it is now.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Family, Past, Ties

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.948, Library of America

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• Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go to sleep without dreading the morrow. To wake up with a shout. Not to have seen a dead face. Not to dread a living one. To be able to believe.

  Fanny Fern

  Dog, Children, Believe

  Fanny Fern (2015). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.110, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• It has been noticed that people who are not parents often have a peculiar fondness for children. This is sometimes attributed to a very beautiful nostalgia for a gift denied to them - dream-children, flowers that have only bloomed in imagination - but we think it is rather because they have not the faintest idea how dreadful children are.

  Angela Thirkell

  Beautiful, Dream, Children

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• December is a month that is rife with nostalgia. If there's anything deep in your heart that you want to keep buried, you can count on December to bring it to the surface.

  Lois Duncan

  Heart, Want, Months

  Lois Duncan (1989). “Don't Look Behind You”, Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers

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• The past is good (as we all know), twenty, thirty years back everything was good, anyone can tell you that.

  Nina Berberova

  Past, Years, Twenties

  Nina Nikolaevna Berberova, Marian Schwartz (2001). “The Tattered Cloak and Other Stories”, p.298, New Directions Publishing

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• Always, our eyes look backwards with the conviction that then, and not now, was the golden age.

  Esther Meynell

  Eye, Past, Age

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• In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows up through the reassertion of our old values in belligerent, testy ways. Regression of any kind is just such a return to old presumptions, often after they have been shown to be insufficient for the complexity of larger questions. The virtue of the old presumptions is that they once worked, or seemed to work, and therein lies if not certainty, then nostalgia for a previous, presumptive security. In our private lives, we frequently fall back upon our old roles.

  James Hollis

  Spiritual, Lying, Fall

  James Hollis (2008). “What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life”, p.101, Penguin

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• The celebrity aspect is nothing short of ridiculous, and auditioning is brutal and dehumanizing. Every time I see a pretty young girl on the subway reading sides for an audition, my only thought is, 'Man, am I glad I'm not doing that anymore.' I never feel nostalgia, just relief.

  Mara Wilson

  Girl, Reading, Men

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• My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?

  Joan Baez

  Keys, Dread, Shows

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• I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.

  Pat Metheny

  Creativity, Thinking, Levels

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• . . .I really ought to have recognized it for what it was and, perhaps, to have stopped right there - for it was nostalgia, and what inspires nostalgia has been dead a long time

  Michael Chabon

  Long, Inspire, Ought

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• If the fall of man consists in the separation of god and the devil the serpent must have appeared out of the middle of the apple when Eve bit like the original worm in it, splitting it in half and sundering everything which was once one into a pair of opposites, so the world is Noah's ark on the sea of eternity containing all the endless pairs of things, irreconcilable and inseparable, and heat will always long for cold and the back for the front and smiles for tears and mutt for jeff and no for yes with the most unutterable nostalgia there is.

  Diane Arbus

  Fall, Men, Sea

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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