Pastoral Resources

I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.

Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.

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?

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature and my love of film.

My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.