Tana French Quotes

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.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

Nostalgia could be considered a disease because you're living now.

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.

Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Nostalgia is, 'Hey, remember the other mall that used to be there?'

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

I don't do nostalgia. The phrase 'the good old days' never passes my lips.

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.

I am not a nostalgic person.

Nostalgia is a very human trait.

I don't think I've got a problem with nostalgia, because a lot of the time things are self-referential.

Nostalgia is not a place to live.

I think nostalgia used purely for the sake of emotional reminiscing is extremely boring.

The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.

I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.

...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.

Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

I think we look back at times past with fondness because we were younger. Life had not yet begun pecking away at our innocence like buzzards on fresh road kill.

You know what nostalgia is, don't you? It's basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.