- It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back. -Bill Vaughn
- Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect! -Owens Lee Pomeroy
- Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days. -Doug Larson
- Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. -Will Rogers
- True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted déjà vu. -Florence E. King
- Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. -Albert Camus
- It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known. -Carson McCullers
- A society that has made nostalgia a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today. -Christopher Lasch
- It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. -Frank Zappa
- Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves? -Julio Cortazar
- In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by an aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine. -Milan Kundera
- Backward turn backward o time in your flight Make me a child again just for tonight... -Elizabeth Akers Allen
- Later, it would occur to me it's the emptiness we mistakenly call innocence. -Sol Luckman
- When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. -Albert Camus
