Nostalgia Quotes - Page 7

• The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.

  Rob Sheffield

  Music, Jobs, Memories

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.26, Crown Archetype

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• nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for Weak but detectable interaction between two neighboring universes that are otherwise not causally connected. Manifests itself in humans as a feeling of missing a place one has never been, a place very much like one’s home universe, or as a longing for versions of one’s self that one will never, and can never know.

  Charles Yu

  Home, Self, Two

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.47, Vintage

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• We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has been lost can motivate serious historical inquiry; it can also cast a powerful light on the present.

  T. J. Jackson Lears

  Powerful, Light, Effort

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• I hate nostalgia, it's laziness with prettier accessories.

  Tana French

  Hate, Accessories, Laziness

  "The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, Book 2)". Book by Tana French, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2008.

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• I just hope the film [Aquarius] doesn't feel overly nostalgic because too much nostalgia for me leads to depression. I think Clara is very pragmatic.

  Sonia Braga

  Thinking, Aquarius, Too Much

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• You know what nostalgia is, don't you? It's basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.

  Bette Davis

  Fun, Pain, Matter

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• Why is nostalgia such a bad thing? Nostalgia is a longing to return. If you really loved where you came from, if, in essence, you really loved yourself, how can you not want that to exist? It's like wanting your parents keep living.

  Melissa Holbrook Pierson

  Essence, Parent, Want

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• No nostalgia runs deeper than that for something one has never known and now cannot obtain.

  Joseph Epstein

  Running, Deeper, Known

  Joseph Epstein (2003). “Snobbery: The American Version”, p.126, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Madame Bovary is one my favorite novels. Emma Bovary will always be an enigma, but as the years pass, I feel that I understand her better. She has a violent nostalgia, almost an infantile nostalgia, to be understood by the men surrounding her. I like her relentless fight for independence, her rebellion against the mediocre, and her quest for the sublime, even if she burns her wigs in the process. I like that Flaubert never judges her morally for her self-destructiveness, for her desperate attempt to satisfy her wildest desires and appetites.

  Sophie Barthes

  Fighting, Men, Self

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• My real desire is to see people live in the modus of our time, to participate in the contemporary world, to release themselves from nostalgia, antiquated traditions, old rituals, meaningless kitsch and meaningless paradigms.

  Karim Rashid

  Real, People, Desire

  "Q&A: Designer Karim Rashid". Express Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. May 3, 2007.

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• Soviet-era nostalgia has strong support among the people. But not among the elite and, in my opinion, not with the president. We are not interested in keeping remnants of the communist era alive.

  Vladislav Surkov

  Strong, People, Support

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The only art I'm interested in is the art I don't understand right away. If you understand it right away it really has no use except as nostalgia.

  Lawrence Weiner

  Art, Understanding, Use

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• I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it dawns on you that when he went he took some of you with him.

  Bill Bryson

  Father, Dawn, Overcoming

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.12, VNR AG

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• There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about yourself. Your connection to your former life is like a dream or delirium, and that person who you once were is merely a fond acquaintance, or a beloved character from a storybook. This is how memory becomes nostalgia. They are two very different things - the same way that a person is different from a photograph of a person.

  Dan Chaon

  Love, Dream, Memories

  "Stay Awake". Book by Dan Chaon, February 7, 2012.

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• I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

  Vikram Seth

  Future, Writing, World

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• Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Strong, Spring, Land

  Vladimir Nabokov (1970). “Mary: A Novel”, Vintage Books

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• I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia.

  David Levithan

  Appreciation, Admiration, Sentiments

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.113, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. His nature - if that word can be used in reference to man, who has ‘invented’ himself by saying ‘no’ to nature - consists in his longing to realize himself in another. Man is nostalgia and a search for communion. Therefore, when he is aware of himself he is aware of his lack of another, that is, of his solitude.

  Octavio Paz

  Men, Solitude, Saying No

  The Labyrinth of Solitude ch. 9 (1950) (translation by Lysander Kemp)

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• There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Time, Rejection, Birth

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect. My gift, or fatal flaw, is for nostalgia. I have sometimes been accused of demanding perfection, of rejecting heart's desires as soon as I get close enough that the mysterious impressionistic gloss disperses into plain solid dots, but the truth is less simplistic than that. I know very well that perfection is made up of frayed, off-struck mundanities. I suppose you could say my real weakness is a kind of long-sightedness: usually it is only at a distance, and much too late, that I can see the pattern.

  Tana French

  Distance, Real, Heart

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• She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… 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. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Heart, Reality, Blow

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• The Republican party is the party of nostalgia. It seeks to return America to a simpler, more innocent and moral past that never actually existed. The Democrats are utopians. They seek to create an America so fair and non-judgmental that life becomes an unbearable series of apologies. Together, the two parties function like giant down comforters, allowing a candidate to disappear into the enveloping softness, protecting them from exposure to the harsh weather of independent thought.

  Jon Stewart

  Party, Independent, Apology

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• What's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.

  Federico Fellini

  Art, Memories, Style

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• You made us for yourself, Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. In this creative restlessness beats and pulsates what is most deeply human - the search for truth, the insatiable need for the good, hunger for freedom, nostalgia for the beautiful, and the voice of conscience.

  Pope John Paul II

  Beautiful, Faith, Inspiration

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• I thought I was the only one who still enjoyed his record collection, but after reading 'How Records Got Their Groove Back,' I happily discovered I was wrong. There is something familiar about my old vinyl. Call it nostalgia, but I don't care for the 'purity' of CDs. They have no personality! The crackle and pop of the stylus on a record player as you wait for the music to begin creates an anticipation that CDs simply can't provide.

  Anthony Pilla

  Music, Reading, Player

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