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

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

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.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

I look back with a mix of emotions: sadness for the people who are gone, nostalgia for times that have passed, but immense gratitude for the wonderful opportunities that came my way.

I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse.

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.

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.