We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
~George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect!
~Owens Lee Pomeroy

If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning.
~Griff Niblack

People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time around.
~Author Unknown

It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back.
~Bill Vaughn

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.
~Robertson Davies, A Voice from the Attic

[I]t becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.
~Ted Koppel

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
~Doug Larson

Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was.
~Will Rogers

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
~George Wildman Ball

It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past.
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
~Franklin Pierce Adams

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
~Florence King

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.
~Lou Reed

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now!
~Alice Childress

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had....
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960