Nostalgia Quotes - Page 9

• I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.

  Jeanne Moreau

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

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• For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss.

  Michael Chabon

  Loss, Thinking, Emotion

  "Michael Chabon’s Vinyl Draft". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 2012.

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• To put it bluntly, we now need to reverse course. We need more highly skilled small farmers in more places all across America - not as a matter of nostalgia for the agrarian past but as a matter of national security. For nations that lose the ability to substantially feed themselves will find themselves as gravely compromised in their international dealings as nations that depend on foreign sources of oil presently do. But while there are alternatives to oil, there are no alternatives to food.

  Michael Pollan

  Past, Oil, America

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

  Margaret Atwood

  Hunger, Jimmy

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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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• 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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• We didn't think the library was funny looking in it's faux- Greek splendor, nor did we find the cuisine limited or bland, or the movies at the Michigan theater relentlessly American and mindless. These were opinions I came to later, after I became a denizen of a City, an expatriate anxious to distance herself from the bumpkin ways of her youth. I am suddenly consumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Girl, Distance, Reading

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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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• It's not like I'm all into nostalgia and history, it's just that I can't stand the way things are now

  Novala Takemoto

  Way, I Can

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• Nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Long, Tomorrow, Felt

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe nostalgia has many appearances and that it's not just the privilege of adults. I think children too can have nostalgia. It's one of mankind's most shared emotions. It's one of the things that makes us human. When you live, you lose things. It's a fact of life. So it's natural for everyone to have nostalgia.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Children, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.midnighteye.com

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• There would be no call for ecological campaigning had nature not been exploited and abused. We experience the ground now bringing forth thistles as soil erosion devastates formerly arable land and deserts overtake fertile farms. Rivers and the atmosphere are polluted thoughtlessly and we are fearful of the consequences of a depleted ozone layer and the devastation of the greenhouse effect. We are not quite at home in our world, and somewhere in each of us there is a nostalgia for a paradise that has been lost.

  Desmond Tutu

  Home, Rivers, Ozone

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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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• A horror novel should reveal to you that you are falling apart. That there are ways your imagination can be made different. Can threaten what you think is. You should be holding onto that tree or rock screaming. Or laughing. Not at absurdity, either: absurdism is just a bourgeois and reactionary nostalgia for good, stable meaning.

  Tony Burgess

  Fall, Thinking, Rocks

  "The book should be something you protect yourself from by returning to your life". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. August 31, 2015.

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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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• Nostalgias were peeled from it long ago.

  Donald Justice

  Long Ago, Long

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Entering Malibu, I was overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia and long lost sadness, like seeing a home I had left a long time ago and had returned to.

  Nick Mancuso

  Sadness, Home, Long

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• I believe that white frame house is worthy of more than a nod of nostalgia, because the values President Clinton learned there and in Hope formed the core of his political philosophy.

  Mack McLarty

  Philosophy, Believe, White

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• Nostalgia wouldn't begin to capture your sense of loss, ... The Way We Really Are Coming to Terms With America's Changing Families.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Loss, America, Way

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