Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.
Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.
Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!
I get emotional when young people get nostalgic about my work. That's why it's called nostalgia. Sometimes I even cry.
I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
I have no sense of nostalgia. Tomorrow is what interests me.
There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia.
You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.
Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.
Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.
I believe that white frame house is worthy of more than a nod of nostalgia, because the values President Clinton learned there and in Hope formed the core of his political philosophy.
Few tears will be shed over the demise of the East German army, but what about East Germany’s eighty symphony orchestras, bound to lose some subsidies? Or the whole East German system, which covered everyone in a security blanket from day care to health care, from housing to education? Some people are beginning to express, if ever so slightly, nostalgia for that Berlin Wall.
Nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.
It's not like I'm all into nostalgia and history, it's just that I can't stand the way things are now
I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.
Mercy, mercy me, things ain't what they used to be.
Nostalgias were peeled from it long ago.
It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.
I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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.