Rose-Tinted View Quotes

None of the people I grew up with had identity problems. We all had perfectly marvelous lives.

I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.

There's an image that my mother saved my father in 1968 and everything was a bed of roses after that. And that just wasn't true. There were as many struggles in the 1980s and the 1990s as there were in the 1960s.

There's a sort of romanticizing of the past. When you actually think about the past, you know it's a little different.

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.

I always find that nostalgia is sort of like memory without the pain. And that's why it feels so good to kind of bask in that, and I think it can be deceptively comforting.

Present-day nostalgia involves homesickness for a period of time or a way of life that is gone for good.

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

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

I have this romanticized idea of dance music in the '90s because, obviously, I was way too young to be a part of it. So I have this rose-tinted idea of it. I have this idea of it being a very special time. But I still don't know that much - I can never remember any names of seminal artists.

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

I do miss England. Well, I miss the idea of England, I think. But I haven't been back for years. I probably just miss the past.

I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.

Others tell like it is, while I tell it how I would like it to be.

Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.

I'm constantly pitching one episode where we see life through Castle's eyes. I think Castle's just a little off as far as his perception goes. A very, very clever man, but I want to see the world as Castle sees it - kind of a rose-colored glasses, all the women find him irresistible, all the guys find him super cool and do whatever he says.

Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.

We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren't necessarily simpler, hindsight makes them look a lot simpler. The reality of it was that it wasn't.

I think whatever generation you're in has a nostalgia for the generations past and the generations you weren't in.

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

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

In personal life, the warm glow of nostalgia amplifies good memories and minimizes bad ones about experiences and relationships, encouraging us to revisit and renew our ties with friends and family. It always involves a little harmless self-deception, like forgetting the pain of childbirth.

I kind of put people from the past up on a pedestal; I don't think, in a lot of ways, that we're at their level.