False Nostalgia Quotes

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

The past always looks better than it was. It’s only pleasant because it isn’t here.

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

It is my belief that people who speak of high school with a sugary fondness are bluffing away early-onset Alzheimer's.

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else.

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted d?j? vu.

We romanticize the past with an illusion that we'd know how we'd fit.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.

Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.

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.

It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it

What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material.

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

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

If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'Well, everything was awesome.' No, everything was not awesome!

I think once you have children, you just don't have the same kind of freedom to pick up and go. But then, I sort of think, how often did I really do it? How spontaneous was I really? Part of what I think I miss is this fantasy of my wild days, but they never existed!