Edgar Wright

I'm very happy with my life and career, but I do find myself having serious attacks of nostalgia, and I don't quite know why. Even though I've got to travel the world and do amazing things, I still want to go back to my teenage years and change little aspects of it. It's strange, but it does continue to bug me.

English Director

Sarah Paulson

Looking back is a way to sharpen the focus on the things you want to change in your life. I think there's something about nostalgia that really puts a fine point on the here-and-now, and that can be incredibly fascinating and interesting and engaging for the mind.

American Actress

Alan Bennett

I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that world. I do not want to be the person I am now in that world then. None of the forms nostalgia can take fits. I found childhood boring. I was glad it was over.

English Dramatist

Jeanne Moreau

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?

French Actress

Frans Timmermans

Responsible politicians should never indulge in nostalgia - it is too much of a distraction at a time when a rapidly changing world throws up so many challenges, when we need to keep our wits about us.

Dutch Politician

Kate Adie

I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.

British Journalist

Julio Cortazar

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.

Argentinian Writer

Craig David

If I live my life through nostalgia and what I did in the past and expect to be the new kid people have just discovered again, then unfortunately, I'm creating my own demise.

English Musician

Greg Mottola

When you're a young person, the solace one can get from popular music is something I just have tremendous nostalgia for, affection for. I still have it.

American Director

Frank Zappa

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

American Singer

Nostalgia mixes happiness with a bit of sadness, reflecting fondly on the past.

Positive Sorrow

Nostalgia often idealizes the past, making it seem better than it was.

Not Actual Past

Specific things like smells, sounds, or places can unexpectedly trigger nostalgia.

Triggered Moments

Nostalgia can refer to longing for bygone eras, even those not personally experienced.

Historical Context

Nostalgia may stem from resistance to change or discomfort with the present.

Change Resistance

Nostalgia can be collective, affecting entire generations or cultural groups.

Cultural Phenomenon

 There are some emotions which wash the world in a single color, like the terror felt as a car skids. But more often, our emotions crowd and jostle together until it is actually quite hard to tell them apart. Some slide past so quickly you'd hardly even notice them, like the nostalgia that will make you reach out

The history of human...

 Olympic gold medalist, head of state. Ems look on humans perhaps with nostalgia and gratitude, but not so much respect, which is, if you think about it, how you think about your ancestors. We know many things about how humans differ in terms of productivity. We can just use those to predict features of ems --

What would happen if we...

 that enable us to stand on two feet. Those of us with children will remember with fond nostalgia the moment our kids take their first steps. But what we think of as endearing is actually an incredible feat of balance and counterbalance. It can be quite daunting.

Meditations on the...

 festive then a dancer enters and she appears in the middle of the darkness and begins to dance and on her face i could really see an expression of nostalgia like she was suffering but i could tell that it was pure passion running through her veins

Modern Lives, Ancient...

 Psychologists of the time speculated that it represented difficulties letting go of childhood, or even a longing to return to one's fetal state. But over the next few decades, the understanding of nostalgia changed in two important ways.

Why do we feel...

 current private dancer worked because it sounded like the voice of tina was this voice that you loved but the music was something totally different everything you loved about her was still there but it wasn't nostalgia it was up-to-date

What Tina Turner taught...

 often encode time, regret or nostalgia about the past, hope or dread about the future. I think that technology has altered that flow of time. The overall time that we have for our narrative, our lifespan, has been increasing,

Abha Dawesar: Life in...

 It's the achingly sentimental yearning for times that never happened. Somebody once said that nostalgia is the one utterly most useless human emotion -- so I think that’s a case for serious play.

Bruce McCall: Nostalgia...

 if it just leads to nostalgia or despair. To the contrary, it's only useful if it motivates us

Let's make the world...

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