Nostalgia Effect Quotes

Maybe the culture is [particularly] shabby now. Maybe it's because I'm over sixty, that I can feel that about everything.

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

Films are wonderful but they do fix an identity. I can't read 'Pride and Prejudice' anymore, for instance, without imaging Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy.

Even if I know that really it's not a great song, even if it's a naff song but I have a good memory of it, then to me that's a great song.

Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes.

When I go into my living room and turn on the TV, I feel like I have gone backwards in time by 20 to 30 years. It's an area of intense interest. I can't say more than that.

I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.

. . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

It's maybe every third person now (who calls out 'Norm!' when they see me). It used to be every other person. It's faded a bit, but not too much. They're always going to remember me that way. I decided a long time ago that if I'm going to let this make me crazy, I'm going to be certifiable, so I just roll with it.

My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.

Most childhoods are full of anxiety, but that tends to get smoothed over, so you have a sense of nostalgia.