A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's probably just an illusion.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most childhoods are full of anxiety, but that tends to get smoothed over, so you have a sense of nostalgia.
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.
I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really, seriously bad. I don't traffic in nostalgia. We're becoming a global culture.
Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.
When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.
I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.
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