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.
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Most childhoods are full of anxiety, but that tends to get smoothed over, so you have a sense of nostalgia.
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.
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.
Nostalgia is eternal for Americans. We are often displaced from our origins and carry anxious memories of that lost past. We fear losing our bearings.
Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
Nostalgia is not what it used to be.
Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.
A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.