Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window.

Demetri Martin

I remember when I used to be really into nostalgia.

Let's get on with the nostalgia at the end of the season.

Abbie Hoffman

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.

James Wolcott

Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.

Andrei Codrescu

Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.

Simone Signoret

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

Georges Bernanos

Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.

Jean Baudrillard

We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history.

Jeanne Moreau

I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.

Jasper Fforde

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

Irving Kristol

Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.

Lou Reed

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

Julian Barnes

What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.

Karl Lagerfeld

It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.

Kabir Bedi

I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.

Miuccia Prada

Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.

Margaret Atwood

...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.

Sherman Alexie

Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.

Simone Signoret

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

John Naughton

Nostalgia isn't a business model

Nicole Krauss

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.

Mignon McLaughlin

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had

Emmy Rossum

I just really gravitate towards a nostalgia for a time when things were simpler. When beauty was more classical and glamorous.

Warren Buffett

As one of my older friends says, "Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be." Let's take a stab at it, anyway.

Rupert Brooke

.. . . would I were In Grantchester, in Grantchester!

Vince Vaughn

I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.