Romanticizing Past Quotes

I’m just confusing the thrill of being young with the notion that the era in which I was young was in any way especially creative or remarkable.

I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it.

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

I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.

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

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.

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

We have the bad habit, some of us, of looking back to a time - almost any time will do - when society was stable and orderly, family ties stronger and deeper, love more lasting and faithful, and so on. Let me be your Cassandra prophesying after the fact, and a long study of the documents in the case: it was never true, that is, no truer than it is now.

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