Idealizing the Past Quotes

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

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.

We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot.

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.

I grew up in the countryside . But there's a danger of us romanticizing that. Because when I was a kid in 1982, that's what my parents were saying to me about television and comics and computer games!

Nostalgia has become so much more popular because technology and climate change are visibly present. It's easy to idolize the past, before those things were prevalent.

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.

I just want to say one thing about the '70s. Enough with this purer, "It was a better time," business. Every time is about as polluted and needy and beautiful as most other times. I was around in the '70s, and people were just as ambitious and envious and filled with need and desire as they are today.

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

People who are always praising the past And especially the time of faith as best Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.

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.

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

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

I hate nostalgia, it's laziness with prettier accessories.

Looking back, you can romanticize the things you did back then. I also like talking about the stupid things I've done.