Paloma Faith Quotes

In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.

Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?

Very often, as I wander through life, I'll get that old feeling that I've come back from the future, and I'm living in the past. And it's a really horrible feeling.

All generations think the present moment is the greatest but also have this fascination with before their time. I do the same thing. I see old British movies. I'm like, 'Man, I would love to be in London at that time.' But then I wouldn't be able to watch 'The Walking Dead,' I wouldn't have cable, and my pizza options would be limited.

Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.

The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.

I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.

Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.

I'm a young girl with an old soul. I wanted to fuse the two together, the past and the present.

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.

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

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?

I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history.

When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there's a definite similarity of purpose between a book set in the future and a book set in the past.

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

Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.

What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the past there was a time when they were happy, because back then the present and the future coincided - they were one and the same thing.

I'm a nostalgic guy.