Nostalgia Quotes

"Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?"
-Jack London

"Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess."
-Juan Ramon Jimenez

"Nostalgia is not what it used to be (La nostalgie n'est plus ce qu'elle etait)."
-Simone Signoret

"Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now!"
-Alice Childress

"Nostalgia is the bane of rock 'n' roll. He had the courage to let it all hang out. ... He was a considerable talent."
-Jim Derogatis

"There will be a little nostalgia."
-Larry Reynolds

"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be."
-Peter De Vries

"Let's get on with the nostalgia at the end of the season."
-Michael Hagan

"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

"True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories."
-Florence King

"Our craziness, our nostalgia, our sense of creation and beauty."
-Daniele Finzi Pasca

"I do hope there is a possibility of getting back to the area and getting New Orleans rebuilt. There's so many people in need of that city. It's a city of nostalgia, a city of hope. I hope all is not lost."
-Cynthia Brown

"This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever. But I'm not so interested in nostalgia. I'm interested in the future."
-Lawrence Ferlinghetti

"I was on a nostalgia trip for that one. I was in a really happy kind of space. That one just felt like it came from somewhere beyond me."
-Chloe Day

"They have no allegiance to Atlantic City whatsoever, other than nostalgia, and that doesn't pay the bills, ... The Miss America pageant has to do what it thinks best serves its interests, and if moving out of Atlantic City does, that's what it should do."
-Leonard Horn

"This isn't going to be a huge money maker for the company. It's more of nostalgia."
-Tony Page

"We left wood seats in the first four rows to maintain some nostalgia. They also help keep the young kids in line."
-Shirley Adams

"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

"I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine."
-Lou Reed

"Carnival is the feast of joy, freedom, and dreams?nothing better to close the great dream of the Olympic Games, with a touch of nostalgia."
-Daniele Finzi Pasca

"This is truly marvelous work: full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy."
-Pete Hamill

"Once Around the Sun - Nostalgia is a seductive liar."
-George Wildman Ball

"I think people are buying out of early nostalgia and sadness. They are buying up things they loved about New Orleans."
-Steve Yates