(83 quotes found)
“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”
Albert Camus
“I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.”
Lou Reed
“Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.”
Peter De Vries
“Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.”
Doug Larson
“True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories”
Florence King
“They relate kind of in our own heads, ... They're always like nostalgia or inside jokes. They have a connection to us, but the connection isn't always obvious. As we're making the songs, somehow along the process, they tie back to our brain, and they read simply like the Bible or 'Aesop's Fables' to us.”
Pete Wentz
“Imagination equals nostalgia for the past, the absent; it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality”
Cyril Connolly
“Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?”
Jack London
“We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.”
Art Buchwald
“It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.”
Anatole Broyard
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