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If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I've got this problem with nostalgia.

— Gary Numan

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.

— Terrence Malick

Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.

— Jeanne Moreau

From about 5 years old on, I was very contemplative and started to become constantly filled with nostalgia for the present moment and the feeling that it's always fleeting.

— Alex Ebert

Most childhoods are full of anxiety, but that tends to get smoothed over, so you have a sense of nostalgia.

— Romesh Gunesekera

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.

— Kate Adie

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

— Bernhard Langer

Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

— Peter Carey

✗Opposing Perspectives

I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.

— Harrison Ford

I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.

— Jeanne Moreau

I am not among those who engage in nostalgia, because I think that locks you into a moment in time without thinking about where you are, what needs to be done now.

— Eleanor Holmes Norton