Nostalgic Quotes

• There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.

  Paul Simon

  Romantic Love, Hopeful, Sound Doctrine

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• I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.

  Walt Disney

  Memories, Future, Past

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• Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

  Doug Larson

  Time, Rough Edges, Nostalgia

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• We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

  George Eliot

  Children, Childhood, Earth

  George Eliot (2012). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much.

  Ai Weiwei

  Crazy, Cities, Enjoy

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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• Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Real, People

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• True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

  Florence King

  Memories, Literature, Ephemeral

  "Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye". Book by Florence King, 1989.

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• Rather than getting nostalgic...embrace the new opportunities and challenges available to you now.

  Richard Branson

  Positivity, Opportunity, Challenges

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• People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

  Bill Watterson

  Children, People, Childhood

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• I like to add personal touches to my decorating style, including photographs and nostalgic items that remind me of family and home.

  Karlie Kloss

  Home, Style, Add

  "Karlie Kloss Wants You to Decorate Her Apartment". Interview with Samantha Leal, www.marieclaire.com. September 22, 2016.

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• Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.

  Alice Childress

  Feet, Forever, Sake

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• With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.

  Douglas Coupland

  Clueless, Years, Knowing

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• There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.

  Michael Ian Black

  Pain, Parent, Feelings

  Michael Ian Black (2012). “You're Not Doing It Right: Tales of Marriage, Sex, Death, and Other Humiliations”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good.

  Cornel West

  Community, Important, Way

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• I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

  Lou Reed

  Nostalgia, Mines

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• It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back

  Bill Vaughan

  Safe, Chance, Nostalgia

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• There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook.

  David Benioff

  Giving, Thanks, Nostalgia

  David Benioff (2005). “When the Nines Roll Over: And Other Stories”, p.73, Penguin

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• I am nostalgic of an era I never knew.

  Lana Del Rey

  Eras

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• I'm nostalgic and I do think about a "what if."

  Emily Giffin

  Thinking, What If, Ifs

  "Emily Giffin Talks Life, Relationships, and Her New Novel, First Comes Love". Interview with Laura Marie Meters, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

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• Nature inspires me because it's so peaceful. It makes me have an inward experience. It makes me reflective and nostalgic.

  Brett Dennen

  Inspire, Peaceful, Inward

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• October, here's to you. Here's to the heady aroma of the frost-kissed apples, the winey smell of ripened grapes, the wild-as-the-wind smell of hickory nuts and the nostalgic whiff of that first wood smoke.

  Ken Weber

  Autumn, Wind, Nuts

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• It's important to have a non-nostalgic view and say, let's look forward, because if we don't, all we'll hear are voices telling us to go back.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Views, Voice, Important

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• I think you can only be nostalgic for something you've lost.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Thinking, Lost

  Source: www.newrafael.com

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• I'm convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over and nothing to be nostalgic about.

  Carrie Fulton Phillips

  Badass, Bad Ass, Design

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• When you're born, you're pure. Unspoiled and trusting. Some say, it's the only time we're perfect. You're also born covered in blood and placenta. No one gets nostalgic about that.

  Christopher Titus

  Blood, Perfect, Born

  "Titus / Sex with Pudding". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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