N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Nostalgia! I even feel it for people and things that were nothing to me, because time’s fleeing is for me an anguish, and life’s mystery is a torture.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.”
Source: Mary: A Novel
“Nostalgia is a bittersweet emotion; it entails the act of recalling complicated memories of bygone days.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.”
“Nostalgia is a dirty liar that insists things were better than they seemed.”
“Nostalgia is a drug, a knife. Against young skin it carries a dull edge, but time will teach you that nostalgia cuts - and that it's a blade we cannot keep from applying to our own flesh.”
Source: The Library Trilogy
“Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.”
Source: Square Dancing in the Ice Age
“Nostalgia is a fragile and tender anguish, basically different, more intimate, more human than the other pains we had endured till then [...] Nostalgia is a limpid and clean pain, but demanding; it permeates every minute of the day, permits no other thoughts and induces a need for escape.”
Source: If This Is a Man / The Truce
“Nostalgia is a longing for your home.”
“Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even failed to accomplish. At the same time, if nostalgia precipitates actions to return to that fabled, rosy-painted time, particularly in one who believes his life to be a failure, then it is an empty thing, doomed to produce nothing but frustration and an even greater sense of failure.”
Source: Streams of Silver: The Legend of Drizzt
“Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.”
“Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.”
Source: White Noise
“Nostalgia is a seductive liar.”
“nostalgia is a side effect of dying”
“Nostalgia is a strange melody—it plays the tunes of our past, sometimes soothing, sometimes haunting.”
“Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.”
“Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just--well--being sad.”
Source: Creed's Honor
“NOSTALGIA IS A WEAPON”
“Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare ourselves and our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“Nostalgia is also a trait of the organizations that I call lodges - everything from corporate cultures to religious sects. Their bonding power often exceeds loyalty to family or country because they create intimacy through shared ideals and beliefs, ceremonies, stories, and legends, and depend on it for their survival. The message is clear: Don't question what we're doing. Just appreciate how long we've been doing it.”
Source: Thinking In The Future Tense
“Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.”
“Nostalgia is an excessive sentimentality for the past, for home. It is associated with a yearning to return to a happy and safe period in your life. The word comes from nóstos, meaning “homecoming”, and álgos, meaning “pain” or “ache”. It’s all about the “good old days”, and “the good times”. Conservatism revolves around nostalgia. All right wingers are nostalgic, and suffer from future shock and future fear. Science is about extreme nostalgia for the material atoms of the ancient Greeks. Materialism is entirely dead in the era of quantum mechanics, yet scientists go on believing in matter anyway. They are highly conservative individuals unwilling to contemplate leaving the home materialism has provided for them. The last thing they want is to end up in the Unknown Land of Mind, where thought, not matter, is core reality. That would ruin everything for the scientific materialists and empiricists.”
Source: Extra Scientiam Nulla Salus: How Science Undermines Reason
“Nostalgia is an illness
for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia.”
“Nostalgia is an illness, but it belongs to the person through whom time is filtered, unpredictably and individually, with all the flaws and defects inherent in human beings. The era that had passed is located in pockets of consciousness, some hidden and unseen, like ponds in remote forests, some bright and familiar like houses on the forest edge, but all of them fragile and changeable, and they die when consciousness dies.”
Source: Min kamp 6
“Nostalgia is best cured via horse whipping.”
“Nostalgia is heroin for old people.”
“Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me out of my sentimentality. For me at least, fiction is the only way I can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.”
“Nostalgia is intimately tied up with their desire to imagine a different world: one able to withstand cultural homogenization and preserve ethnic diversity, one where social and political recognition can be gained for all. Truly, hope is never far from nostalgia.”
Source: Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times
“Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.”
Source: New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City
“Nostalgia is missing what might come back.”
“Nostalgia is my favorite emotion. It's like, you think you know how to deal with the passage of time, but nostalgia will prove you wrong. You'll press your face into an old sweatshirt, or you'll look at a familiar shade of paint on a front door, and you'll be reminded of all the time that got away from you. If you could live it all again, you'd take a long moment to look around, to examine knees against knees. Nostalgia puts you in this dangerous re-creation of something you can never have again. It's ruthless, and for the most part, inaccurate.”
Source: Girl in Snow
“Nostalgia is not indulgence. Nostalgia tells us we are in the presence of imminent revelation, about to break through the present structures held together by the way we have remembered: something we thought we understood but that we are now about to fully understand, something already lived but not fully lived, issuing not from our future but from something already experienced; something that was important, but something to which we did not grant importance enough, something now wanting to be lived again, at the depth to which it first invited us but which we originally refused. Nostalgia is not an immersion in the past, nostalgia is the first annunciation that the past as we know it is coming to an end.”
Source: Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
“Nostalgia is not linked only with being away from one's homeland, as one may feel nostalgia , too, inside his own homeland.”
Source: Coco De Mer - the Forbidden Fruit
“Nostalgia is not what it used to be.”
“Nostalgia is often a mask for rage. The intensity with which we yearn for a lost world is frequently proportionate to the discomfort we feel in our own.”
Source: Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S.
“Nostalgia is old hat,” Carol says. Carol tears down the yellow leaflets, pinup girls, and wallpaper garden. For a while everything is bare. A month goes by and it is Christmas. Carol only hangs up the pinup girls. Then she hangs up the wallpaper garden. The leaflets have been burnt.”
Source: The 3288 Review: Volume 1, Issue 3
“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.”
“Nostalgia is partly illusion in that we remember things differently as we get older, etc. But that doesn't mean, when historians look back on the 1950s, say, from the year 2090, it won't be judged as a saner, slower, less narcissistic, more family-focused, and economically secure time.”
“Nostalgia is possibly the greatest of the lies that we all tell ourselves. It is the glossing of the past to fit the sensibilities of the present. For some, it brings a measure of comfort, a sense of self and of source, but others I fear take these altered memories too far, and because of that paralyze themselves to the realities about them.
How many people wonder for that past, simpler and better world, I wonder? Without ever recognizing that truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them.”
Source: Streams of Silver
“Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were.”
Source: Bad Feminist
“Nostalgia is so certain: the sense of familiarity it instills makes us feel like we know ourselves, like we've lived. To get a sense that we have already journeyed through something -- survived it, experienced it -- id often so much easier and less messy than the task of currently living through something.”
Source: Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
“Nostalgia is so certain: the sense of familiarity it instills makes us feel like we know ourselves, like we've lived. To get a sense that we have already journeyed through something - survived it, experienced it - is often so much easier and less messy than the task of currently living through something.”
Source: Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
“Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.”
“Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met.”
“Nostalgia is the bane of rock 'n' roll. He had the courage to let it all hang out. ... He was a considerable talent.”
“Nostalgia is the best and the worst feeling - complex - nothing has the ability to so delight and wound us simultaneously, except perhaps for love.”
Source: The Library Trilogy
“Nostalgia is the doorway back to youth.”
Source: The Chalice of the Gods
“Nostalgia is the falsest and most maudlin of all joys, and the only people who truly deserve it are suckers of this world. But I can’t change what I did any more than I can change how I feel. I am not ashamed.”
Source: The Zeroes
“Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.”