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

Albert Camus 1913-1960, French Existential Writer

A society that has made ''Nostalgia'' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

Christopher Lasch 1932-, American Historian

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

George W. Ball 1909-1991, American Politician

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

Lou Reed 1942-, American Musician, Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Simone Signoret 1921-, French Film Actor

Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.
The Lion

~~~~Littera scripta manet~~~ the written word remains. (the saying continues; The weak word perishes)

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don’t think it was, and I would advise you not to wait 10 years before admitting today was great. If you’re hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.~Art Buchwald (1925- ), U.S. humor columnist.

By the end of this century our children will be viewing the business practices and marketing techniques of the major concerns with the same amused sense of nostalgia as we look back on the way offices are described in a novel by Charles Dickes or J.B. Priestley.~Steve Shirley, former president of the British Computer Society.

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect!
- Owens Lee Pomeroy

People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time around.
- Author Unknown

We need to distinguish between nostalgia and the reassuring memory of happy times, which serves to link the present to the past and to provide a sense of continuity. The emotional appeal of happy memories does not depend on disparagement of the present, the hallmark of the nostalgic attitude. Nostalgia appeals to the feeling that the past offered delights no longer obtainable. Nostalgic representations of the past evoke a time irretrievably lost and for that reason timeless and unchanging. Strictly speaking, nostalgia does not entail the exercise of memory at all, since the past it idealizes stands outside time, frozen in unchanging perfection. Memory too may idealize the past, but not in order to condemn the present. It draws hope and comfort from the past in order to enrich the present and to face what comes with good cheer.
~ Christopher Lasch (b. 1932), U.S. historian.

Nostaliga is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.~ Doug Larson

The essence of nostalgia is an awareness that what has been will never be again. Milton S. Eisenhower

Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~ Will Rogers

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
~ Will Rogers

We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot. ~ Will Rogers

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If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.~ Catherine Aird
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? ~ Will Rogers

Oh! the good old days when we were so unhappy.
[Ah, les bon vieux temps ou nous etions si malheureux.]
--French saying


Seashell ebb music wayriver she flows. --James Joyce

Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.
~~Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Twelfth Selection, New York (1993).

Dos moi pou sto kai kino taen gaen. ~Archimedes

Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane.
-- Doug Larson

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

*~Come play with my children feel the peace and Scatter some joy.~*
~*Blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make your's burn any brighter.*~
**Heck was created for those who refuse to believe in Gosh.**

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.
-- Robertson Davies, from A Voice from The Attic

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.