Negative Nostalgia Quotes

People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.

People seem to forget what it was like to be a child. I think it's partly because they want to forget, because it usually wasn't as good as you thought it was, and so you want to skip over those things, and not have to relate to that anymore.

Some people, with a certain nostalgia, the worshippers and admirers of the colonial system, cherish and nurse its structures instead of smashing them. This is typical of a mentality in bondage to decadent values, negative values - counter-revolutionary values.

When you think of the good old days, think one word: dentistry.

One of my early memories is of a white girl twirling in a circle. I realized later on that it was from that show 'Small Wonder' - the oldest I could have been when I was watching it was four or five, but it's one I think about a lot. It's stuck in my head, this terrible Fox television show.

It's not about being upset about the things you might have said or done yesterday, which is quite appropriate at the moment. It's about looking forward rather than looking back. I hate people who look back on the past or talk about what might have been.

People say to me now, 'Oh, it must have been so glamorous to grow up in hotels, eat in restaurants.' Of course, we hated it.

I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.

Being 16 is the worst time to be anybody, there is not enough tea in China to persuade me to be that young again. I wasn't very happy with myself.

I felt if I went chronologically, I'd get bogged down in childhood and that's part of our culture of complaint in America. This endless wailing about your childhood.

I've never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days.

I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror.

My idea of Hell is to be young again.

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.

I cannot think of a thing that was better in those good old days.

Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore.

It just feels to me like the death throes of an America that had many great things about it, but had many negative things about it. I don't want to go back.

Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on with you.