(88 quotes found)
“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
“Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.”
Juan Ramon Jimenez
“Nostalgia is a seductive liar.”
George Wildman Ball
“Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either”
Garrison Keillor
“What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it”
Mark Twain
“Once Around the Sun - Nostalgia is a seductive liar”
“Yet I think nostalgia of any kind is a double-edged sword. When people see a TV show title from their youth, they're looking for a piece of that old experience to come back, and the truth is, they'll never recapture it.”
Frank Spotnitz
“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.”
Erma Bombeck
“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
