Chris O'Dowd Quotes

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy.

I try not to be overly nostalgic, and I don't use nostalgia to be kitschy.

I was too young to ever have fun in the '90s, so I'm always trying to relive what I wasn't a part of.

I must admit that i am fascinated by the glories of ancient India. But when will the purveyors of Indian culture realise that not everything about our past was glorious?

A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's probably just an illusion.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

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.

I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way of personal history that they polish it up and make it shine like a treasured heirloom.

I hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it.

Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

Why does the past seem so magical, so fraught, so luminous? At the time it was just, ugh, another boring bloody day. But, to look back on, it's a day full of miracles and light and extraordinary events. Why is this? What process do we apply to the past, to give it this vividness? I don't know.

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.

The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.

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

I'm really obsessed with the past.

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.

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

The good old days are now.

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

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact a return to the idealized past.

Right after we recorded 'Satanic Satanist' and 'American Ghetto' here in Boston, we decided we'd grow our hair out. This is - was - like the Beatles thing. I wanted to see these pictures later in life.

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

I have a nostalgia for the years I was growing up and experiencing new things for the first time - so the late '80s and early '90s are always fascinating to me. Those were the times that I was being informed about a lot of my tastes, and so the memories are fused with a lot of emotion.