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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 4 likes |
| People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence. — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer 3 likes |
 | Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. — Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher 2 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 2 likes |
 | So sad, so fresh the days that are no more. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 2 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 1 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) |
 | The Greek word for “return” is nostos. Algos means “suffering.” So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. |
Quotes in Verse
 | There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery. — Dante, 1265-1321, Italian poet 5 likes |
 | To feel nostalgia for you place being in your place nothing is more bitter. |
 | Yes, Paradise was not a nostalgia. Nor, much more, a reward. It was a right. |
Movie Quotes
 | Play it once, Sam, for old times' sake...Play it, Sam. Play “As Time Goes By”. — from the film Casablanca (1942) 4 likes |
 | Rosebud! — from the film Citizen Kane (1941) 4 likes |
