Will Rogers Quotes

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'Well, everything was awesome.' No, everything was not awesome!

The great times were never as great as they seem in the rearview mirror.

I'm always a little unnerved when I see a show that's set in the past that implies in any way that things were nicer then.

Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

There's a sort of romanticizing of the past. When you actually think about the past, you know it's a little different.

Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

That kind of creaming off the pretty postcard image of the past, I think, is a road to nowhere.

The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things.

We romanticize the past with an illusion that we'd know how we'd fit.

I don't buy into the glory days thing. I think every time has its great things to it. The '60s were such a glorious time but it's easy to forget that there was all sorts of bullshit too.

It's the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality.

I'm of a generation that romanticizes and maybe even over-romanticized things that were painful, that hurt others. I feel that. But I don't know if I have any regrets.

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.

Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?

She'd fallen into the best part of her past.

Old friends are memories personified.

How sweet to remember the trouble that is past.

You look back at a time you idealize now and you only remember the good stuff. You tell the stories about the hard stuff and just laugh about it now. You don't remember how difficult it was to be stranded in Austin after driving 52 hours from Seattle in a rainstorm and having nowhere to stay for five hours. You remember that stuff and laugh about it now. You don't feel it the way you did back then when you were so scared and nervous and tired and hungry. We always idealize the past because we don't feel the painful stuff the way we used to.