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„Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.“
„Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.“
„Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.“
„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.“
„The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd: the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create a raw landscape within us, a sun eternally setting on what we are.“
„Once a thing’s been done it’s been done, so while this nostalgia — I mean for the ’60s and ’70s, you know, looking backwards for inspiration, copying the past — how’s that rock ‘n’ roll? Do something of your own. Start something new, you know? Live your lives now. Know what I mean?“
„Always to have lived with the nostalgia to coincide with something, but not really knowing with what — it is easy to shift from unbelief to belief, or conversely. But what is there to convert to, and what is there to abjure, in a state of chronic lucidity?“
„There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.“
„Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection.“