Todd Haynes Quotes

Nostalgia is a very human trait.

homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

Live in the past, but don't remember too much.

If I had let myself off the hook in college, I could have enjoyed myself a lot more. Knowing that I can't have those years back, I have learned to get the most out of living in the now.

You can't live in nostalgia-land.

Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it.

I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.

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

I don't do nostalgia. The phrase 'the good old days' never passes my lips.

I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.

I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.

I am not a nostalgic person.

I don't think I've got a problem with nostalgia, because a lot of the time things are self-referential.

If you are always talking about the past, then you don't really have much in the present.

Nostalgia is not a place to live.

I think nostalgia used purely for the sake of emotional reminiscing is extremely boring.

I suppose any person who's played somewhere for a certain amount of time and then has the opportunity to go back and just reminisce a little bit, maybe it holds a different feeling than some of the other places.

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

It's stupid, I know, but I care. All the things that meant so much when we were young. Under the blankets late at night, listening to long-distance radio. All those things lost now or broken. Can you remember? Can you remember that feeling? Perhaps I ought to go to a doctor.

The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.

Then I turned the page and at the top it said THINGS I MISS ABOUT M and there was a list of 15 things, and the first was THE WAY HE HOLDS THINGS. I did not understand how you can miss the way somebody holds things.

We often live in the past a lot more than we probably realize.