#nostalgia

I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself. ↗

— Sam Shepard

#always #country #exactly #feel #fit

Nostalgia is not what it used to be. ↗

— Simone Signoret

#used

The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#calmness #carriers #eternal #even #heavenly

I don't have a great nostalgia for the past. ↗

— Andy Summers

#i #nostalgia #past

Nostalgia is, 'Hey, remember the other mall that used to be there?' ↗

— George Saunders

#mall #nostalgia #other #remember #used

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. ↗

— Florence King

#disjointed #ephemeral #memories #nostalgia #true

I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws. ↗

— Laura Lippman

#baltimore #being #being honest #beloved #better

We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past. The Last Generation ↗

— James Elroy Flecker

#literature #nostalgia #age

Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#humor #irony #medieval #middle-ages #nostalgia

NW" is full of split selves, people alienated from the very things they thought defined them. Their nostalgia -- for old movies, old songs, buses they don't ride anymore -- is less a salve than a form of pain. ↗

— Christian Lorentzen

#nostalgia #age