Nostalgia Quotes - page 5

Nostalgia is a fruit with the pain of distance in its pit. (Giannina Braschi)
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. View quote
Nicole Krauss
You have to understand the Tea-bagger mindset; they have this nostalgia for this America that they think was stolen from them, that used to be, that was better – it's really the 1950s, okay? That's what they think was Shangri-La, and, y'know what they really don't get is that it's kind of insulting to a lot of Americans to pine for this era, cause it wasn't that good for a lot of people. It was good if you were a white man. It wasn't that good if you were Mexican, or black, or Jewish, or disabled, or gay, or a woman. View quote
Bill Maher
Sex is nostalgia for sex. View quote
Andy Warhol
Ostalgie [≈ "East German Nostalgia”] is not my kind of thing. To some, the GDR appears in a backward-looking bleary-eyed view as a palladium of social security. In truth, the GDR collapsed not least because, being economically inefficient, it could not finance its social promises. View quote
Günter Schabowski
The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Those who wanted to sleep, not from fatigue but because of the nostalgia of dreams... View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Nostalgia, as always, had wiped away bad memories and magnified the good ones. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
In the shattered schoolhouse where for the first time he had felt the security of power, a few feet from the room where he had come to know the uncertainty of love, Arcadio found the formality of death ridiculous. Death really did not matter to him but life did and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia. He did not speak until they asked him for his last request. (Gabriel García Márquez)
Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be? View quote
Jasper Fforde
Actually, one of the real problems that always bothers me [in creating a painting] is sustaining a feeling. I mean, when I look at Poussin now, well, I think that's the most incredible thing to maintain the feeling for a year, however long it took Poussin, I'm telling you, to paint this vast structure. Bur perhaps that is not given to us now. I don't know.... Actually all all modern art puzzles me. I don't understand it. II really don't. I don't know whether it is fragmentary [as David Sylvester the interviewer suggested]. I have a sickening nostalgia for this other state of sustaining a feeling for months, being able to construct and build a picture. Well Mondrian, I think, did that, of course. He was almost one of the last artists to do that. I wish I could get there. View quote
Phillip Guston
You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more. View quote
Milan Kundera
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. View quote
Milan Kundera
How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present? View quote
Milan Kundera
The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia. View quote
Milan Kundera
I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it. View quote
Mark Gatiss
Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide. View quote
Mohsin Hamid
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)
I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it. View quote
Vince Vaughn
From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost.... View quote
David Nicholls
Spare me the nostalgia. View quote
Jack Finney
Does he [A N Wilson] really believe that there is no nostalgia for the triumphant days of the Third Reich among that proud and valorous race, or that they have forgiven and forgotten that in two great wars the English-speaking people beat the hell out of them, humiliated them, conquered them? View quote
George MacDonald Fraser