859 Quotes About Nostalgia

Images are inherently fascistic because they overstamp the truth, however dim and blurred, of the real past experience; as if, faced with ruins, we must turn architects, not archeologists.

Everything that is remembered about the past is washed, and often drowned, in nostalgia, pride, illusions and passions of all kinds.

When I was a kid, they had a saying, 'to err is human but to really fuck it up takes a computer.’

It's hard to believe that it will ever be better," Bambi's mother sighed. Aunt Ena sighed too. "It's hard to believe that it was ever any better," she said. "And yet," Marena said, looking in front of her, "I always think how beautiful it was before.

The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.

The result, therefore, of our present inquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning -no prospect of an end.

Defrosting a frozen memory can get the present all wet.

I find myself becoming increasingly nostalgic for the past, but after all I suppose that is the only thing one can be nostalgic about.

We lie in wait for the right moment and the just cause, which, at this moment, is simply wanting to live.