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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Most childhoods are full of anxiety, but that tends to get smoothed over, so you have a sense of nostalgia.
There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.
Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.
Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.
Nostalgic myself, I am a sucker for other men's nostalgia.
Very often, as I wander through life, I'll get that old feeling that I've come back from the future, and I'm living in the past. And it's a really horrible feeling.
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.
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.
I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened.