I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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 something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.
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.
My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
Most childhoods are full of anxiety, but that tends to get smoothed over, so you have a sense of nostalgia.
I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it.
I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.