Of course, you wouldn't want to re-create the era of aristocracy; it was a totally unfair era. The finer aspects of it were admirable, and so there's nostalgia for that: the behavior, the values, the cultural sensitivities.
For all the farcical invoking of Blitz spirit, Brexit isnβt merely an absurdist experiment in English nationalist nostalgia - it is the most audacious example yet of a futuristic Russian nationalism that seeks to divide and rule Europe.
The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.
'Losing My Edge' was an anthem for the aging music nerd, with lyrics detailing a comically epic list of historical dates, bands and attended gigs: the anti-hipster's defence against 'the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered Eighties.'
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse.
Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
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.
When you look at our Godzilla, you won't feel any nostalgia.
I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.
When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.
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.
Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.
Trump promised an 'America First' foreign policy rooted in the national interest, not in nostalgia.
To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self I once was.
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
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.
In the poetry of immigrants, nostalgia is as common as confetti at parades or platitudes at political conventions.
The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it's nostalgia.