Definition of Nostalgia

Nostalgia

Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness.

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Nostalgia Quotations

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
Albert Camus

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
Frank Zappa

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.
Robert Morgan

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

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

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.
Angela Carter

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
Angela Carter

A society that has made "nostalgia" a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
Christopher Lasch

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

My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?
Jeanne Moreau

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

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

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.
Simone Signoret

I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.
Andy Summers

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
Van Morrison

The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.
Robert Smithson

I've never returned to the locations. I do remember certain days more clearly than others and certain locations with a sense of nostalgia. Perhaps one day, I'll bring my daughter to see them, if she's interested.
Madeleine Stowe

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.
Robert Wyatt

I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
Dario Argento

I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful.
Max von Sydow

Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature and my love of film.
Jonathan Lethem

This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.
John Thorn

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.
Paul Getty

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.
David Guterson

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
George Ball

Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.
Julio Cortazar

I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.
Sam Shepard

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

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.
David Hobson

I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.
Mira Nair

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Nostalgia Translations

nostalgia in Dutch is heimwee
nostalgia in German is Heimweh
nostalgia in Hungarian is nosztalgia
nostalgia in Spanish is nostalgia
nostalgia in Swedish is nostalgi

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