Nostalgic Quotes - Page 9

• There's a lot of fiction from that period that we're nostalgic for.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Fiction, Periods

  "Paper Girls: Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang talk Volume 2". Interview With Nivea Serrao, ew.com. November 29, 2016.

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• I think this kind of bohemianism doesn't really exist in the New York city anymore - the bohemianism that I was trying to record in Carnegie Hall that completely defined our culture. The people who lived and worked in Carnegie Hall studios, they defined our culture in music, dance, theater, fashion, illustration. It wasn't so much nostalgic as a celebration of that and an acknowledgment of that and saying that it's really important. And it's actually something that is a loss for the city, I think.

  Richard Press

  Fashion, Loss, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm very nostalgic, and I spend a lot of time in the past, in my mind. That's part of my challenge, and what I really want to do is, I want to be present. I want to leave that in the past. When I say nostalgic, I mean my own life. I spend a lot of time reflecting on my past and not being able to process time.

  Diane Birch

  Mean, Past, Challenges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Some people I've talked to have had really an interpretation of this record as being nostalgic. But in some ways, when we were writing Stay Positive, I was really obsessed with age. I kept saying it was a record about trying to age gracefully. This record, I think actually was us aging gracefully.

  Craig Finn

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

  J. G. Ballard

  People, Imagination, Fiction

  "Strange fiction". Interview With James Campbell, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2008.

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• But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures

  Susan Sontag

  1974 In the New York Review of Books,18 Apr.

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• Am I nostalgic for film? … I mean, it’s had a good run, hasn’t it? You know, I’m not nostalgic for a technology. I’m nostalgic for the kind of films that used to be made that aren’t being made now.

  Roger Deakins

  Running, Mean, Technology

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• I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.

  Eddie Vedder

  Eye, Gas Stations, Sandwiches

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• When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.

  Diane Setterfield

  Children, Book, Pleasure

  Diane Setterfield (2006). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

  Colum McCann

  People, Matter, Sentimental

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.128, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed from him and that all his life he will be nostalgic for the time when he did not know it's exigencies.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Children, Men, Firsts

  Simone de Beauvoir (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him? "No, thank you," he will think. "Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these things are things that cannot inspire envy."

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Past, Reality, Thinking

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.94, Beacon Press

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• Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mashups, and by fandom responding to the dwindling outposts of centralized mass media. It is a culture of reaction without action.

  Jaron Lanier

  Media, Culture, Fandoms

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.20, Vintage

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• Jesus becomes the captive of the hysterically religious, the chronically fearful, the insecure and even the neurotic among us, or he becomes little more than a fading memory, the symbol of an age that is no more and a nostalgic reminder of our believing past. To me, neither option is worth pursuing.

  John Shelby Spong

  Religious, Jesus, Memories

  John Shelby Spong (2009). “Jesus for the Non-Religious”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• I truly hope the future will bring me something to feel nostalgic about, because there's really nothing much so far I can remember fondly.

  Elliott Smith

  Remember, Feels, I Can

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• All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Silence, Cozy

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.23, Random House

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• It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. Eventually within the next quarter of a century, the nostalgia cycles will be so close together that people will not be able to take a step without being nostalgic for the one they just took. At that point, everything stops. Death by Nostalgia.

  Frank Zappa

  Fire, Ice, Two

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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