Escapism or nostalgia, for me, is not about having a terrible life and trying to get away via imaginary ideas or something.
I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.
Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.
I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always felt that we oldies can learn so much from them and draw from them inspiration in our flagging and rickety years.
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
I understand the nostalgia of having paper to feel and smell when you read it, but I would rather have fond memories of newspapers that have become obsolete than fond memories of beautiful forests that have become obsolete.
I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.
My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.
I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.
I knew I wanted to do a show on NBC - it's rooted in its history; it's part rooted in nostalgia and part rooted in the potential of it. For me, there was no other choice.
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
I've never returned to the locations. I do remember certain days more clearly than others and certain locations with a sense of nostalgia. Perhaps one day, I'll bring my daughter to see them, if she's interested.
Interest groups are not the same as individuals. Through false nostalgia for the New Deal, you are taking the younger generation hostage. They are the ones who are going to have to pay far greater taxes. They are the future's forgotten men.
There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.
Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?
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 don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
I do hear from people at my exhibition about seeing these things made from this toy from their childhood, and it brings them back. They'll go and buy a set of Lego from the gift shop because of that nostalgia and seeing it at the art exhibition.
I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
Cash is going to be killed. It will be nostalgia.
Periods of nostalgia are impossible to predict or explain.
A lot of my collections are informed by nostalgia. I think that's because I loved clothes early on. I remember, at maybe age five, being concerned about what I wore, right down to the underwear.
Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.
Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.
For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.
I'm very happy with my life and career, but I do find myself having serious attacks of nostalgia, and I don't quite know why. Even though I've got to travel the world and do amazing things, I still want to go back to my teenage years and change little aspects of it. It's strange, but it does continue to bug me.
I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music - these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
I think whatever generation you're in has a nostalgia for the generations past and the generations you weren't in.
I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.
