Nostalgia Quotes

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it. ~George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860


Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect! ~Owens Lee Pomeroy


If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning. ~Griff Niblack


People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time around. ~Author Unknown


It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back. ~Bill Vaughn


The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past. ~Robertson Davies, A Voice from the Attic


[I]t becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia. ~Ted Koppel


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


Nostalgia is a seductive liar. ~George Wildman Ball


Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. ~Franklin Pierce Adams


True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. ~Florence King


I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine. ~Lou Reed


Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now! ~Alice Childress


Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had.... ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

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