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Nostalgia |
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Quotations
 | When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, “It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.” I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good. — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer 5 likes |
| People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence. — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer 4 likes |
 | Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. — Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher 3 likes |
 | Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 3 likes |
 | So sad, so fresh the days that are no more. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 3 likes |
 | Limited in his nature, infinite in his wishes, Man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens. — Alphonse de Lamartin, 1790-1869, French poet 2 likes |
 | There is no there there. — Gertrude Stein, 1874-1946, American writer (perhaps a reference to her childhood home of Oakland, that had been razed) 1 likes |
 | The Greek word for “return” is nostos. Algos means “suffering.” So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. — Milan Kundera, 1929-2023, Czech writer 1 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery. — Dante, 1265-1321, Italian poet 6 likes |
 | Yes, Paradise was not a nostalgia. Nor, much more, a reward. It was a right. — Odysseas Elytis, 1911-1996, Greek poet, Nobel 1979 2 likes |
 | To feel nostalgia for you place being in your place nothing is more bitter. — Giorgos Seferis, 1900-1971, Greek poet, Nobel 1963 1 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | There is nothing sweeter than one's homeland and parents. Ως ουδέν γλύκιον ής πατρίδος ουδέ τοκήων γίνεται. — Homer, c. 800-750 BC, Ancient Greek Poet 1 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | Play it once, Sam, for old times' sake...Play it, Sam. Play “As Time Goes By”. — from the film Casablanca (1942) 7 likes |
 | Rosebud! — from the film Citizen Kane (1941) 6 likes |
