Quotations about Nostalgia

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.  ~George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860


Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson:  you find the present tense, but the past perfect!  ~Owens Lee Pomeroy


If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning.  ~Griff Niblack


People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time around.  ~Author Unknown


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


The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.  ~Robertson Davies, A Voice from the Attic


[I]t becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.  ~Ted Koppel


Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.  ~Doug Larson


Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was.  ~Will Rogers


Nostalgia is a seductive liar.  ~George Wildman Ball


It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.  ~Franklin Pierce Adams


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


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


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


Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had....  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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