Longing for the Good Old Days Quotes

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.

I'm really obsessed with the past.

The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.

Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even failed to accomplish. At the same time, if nostalgia precipitates actions to return to that fabled, rosy-painted time, particularly in one who believes his life to be a failure, then it is an empty thing, doomed to produce nothing but frustration and an even greater sense of failure.

When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.

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

I think there's kind of a wave of nostalgia going on right at the moment. You know, people recall an earlier time, which they see as a better time. And I think we just kind of evoke good thoughts when they look at us. That's the feeling I get.

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

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.

My brother and I have a profound nostalgia for our youth, and I think people need to come to terms with things leaving and being gone.

...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.

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

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

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

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

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

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 hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it.