Nostalgia
noun
A feeling of happiness and sadness when thinking about things that happened in the past.
Listening to these old songs fills me with nostalgia.
Often appears as...
- nostalgic about
- nostalgia for
noun
A desire to return to a time or place from the past.
Many people experience nostalgia for their childhood homes.
Often appears as...
- nostalgia for
- nostalgia trip
noun
A feeling of happiness and sadness when thinking about things that happened in the past.
Listening to these old songs fills me with nostalgia.
Often appears as...
- nostalgic about
- nostalgia for
noun
A desire to return to a time or place from the past.
Many people experience nostalgia for their childhood homes.
Often appears as...
- nostalgia for
- nostalgia trip
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Sorrow
Nostalgia mixes happiness with a bit of sadness, reflecting fondly on the past.
Looking at the old family album, a wave of nostalgia washed over me.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Actual Past
Nostalgia often idealizes the past, making it seem better than it was.
The nostalgia for my school days ignores the tough exams I had to take.
Pro Tip 3/3Triggered Moments
Specific things like smells, sounds, or places can unexpectedly trigger nostalgia.
The smell of fresh bread brought a sudden nostalgia for my grandmother's kitchen.
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Sorrow
Nostalgia mixes happiness with a bit of sadness, reflecting fondly on the past.
Looking at the old family album, a wave of nostalgia washed over me.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Actual Past
Nostalgia often idealizes the past, making it seem better than it was.
The nostalgia for my school days ignores the tough exams I had to take.
Pro Tip 3/3Triggered Moments
Specific things like smells, sounds, or places can unexpectedly trigger nostalgia.
The smell of fresh bread brought a sudden nostalgia for my grandmother's kitchen.
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Sorrow
Nostalgia mixes happiness with a bit of sadness, reflecting fondly on the past.
Looking at the old family album, a wave of nostalgia washed over me.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Actual Past
Nostalgia often idealizes the past, making it seem better than it was.
The nostalgia for my school days ignores the tough exams I had to take.
Pro Tip 3/3Triggered Moments
Specific things like smells, sounds, or places can unexpectedly trigger nostalgia.
The smell of fresh bread brought a sudden nostalgia for my grandmother's kitchen.
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The history of human...
There are some emotions which wash the world in a single color, like the terror felt as a car skids. But more often, our emotions crowd and jostle together until it is actually quite hard to tell them apart. Some slide past so quickly you'd hardly even notice them, like the nostalgia that will make you reach out
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What would happen if we...
Olympic gold medalist, head of state. Ems look on humans perhaps with nostalgia and gratitude, but not so much respect, which is, if you think about it, how you think about your ancestors. We know many things about how humans differ in terms of productivity. We can just use those to predict features of ems --
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Meditations on the...
that enable us to stand on two feet. Those of us with children will remember with fond nostalgia the moment our kids take their first steps. But what we think of as endearing is actually an incredible feat of balance and counterbalance. It can be quite daunting.
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Modern Lives, Ancient...
festive then a dancer enters and she appears in the middle of the darkness and begins to dance and on her face i could really see an expression of nostalgia like she was suffering but i could tell that it was pure passion running through her veins
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Why do we feel...
Psychologists of the time speculated that it represented difficulties letting go of childhood, or even a longing to return to one's fetal state. But over the next few decades, the understanding of nostalgia changed in two important ways.
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What Tina Turner taught...
current private dancer worked because it sounded like the voice of tina was this voice that you loved but the music was something totally different everything you loved about her was still there but it wasn't nostalgia it was up-to-date
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Abha Dawesar: Life in...
often encode time, regret or nostalgia about the past, hope or dread about the future. I think that technology has altered that flow of time. The overall time that we have for our narrative, our lifespan, has been increasing,
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Bruce McCall: Nostalgia...
It's the achingly sentimental yearning for times that never happened. Somebody once said that nostalgia is the one utterly most useless human emotion -- so I think that’s a case for serious play.
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Let's make the world...
if it just leads to nostalgia or despair. To the contrary, it's only useful if it motivates us
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Saving a Pangolin's Life...
is a nostalgia in namibia conservationists maria
Video examples
The history of human...
There are some emotions which wash the world in a single color, like the terror felt as a car skids. But more often, our emotions crowd and jostle together until it is actually quite hard to tell them apart. Some slide past so quickly you'd hardly even notice them, like the nostalgia that will make you reach out
Video examples
What would happen if we...
Olympic gold medalist, head of state. Ems look on humans perhaps with nostalgia and gratitude, but not so much respect, which is, if you think about it, how you think about your ancestors. We know many things about how humans differ in terms of productivity. We can just use those to predict features of ems --
Video examples
Meditations on the...
that enable us to stand on two feet. Those of us with children will remember with fond nostalgia the moment our kids take their first steps. But what we think of as endearing is actually an incredible feat of balance and counterbalance. It can be quite daunting.
Video examples
Modern Lives, Ancient...
festive then a dancer enters and she appears in the middle of the darkness and begins to dance and on her face i could really see an expression of nostalgia like she was suffering but i could tell that it was pure passion running through her veins
Video examples
Why do we feel...
Psychologists of the time speculated that it represented difficulties letting go of childhood, or even a longing to return to one's fetal state. But over the next few decades, the understanding of nostalgia changed in two important ways.
Video examples
What Tina Turner taught...
current private dancer worked because it sounded like the voice of tina was this voice that you loved but the music was something totally different everything you loved about her was still there but it wasn't nostalgia it was up-to-date
Video examples
Abha Dawesar: Life in...
often encode time, regret or nostalgia about the past, hope or dread about the future. I think that technology has altered that flow of time. The overall time that we have for our narrative, our lifespan, has been increasing,
Video examples
Bruce McCall: Nostalgia...
It's the achingly sentimental yearning for times that never happened. Somebody once said that nostalgia is the one utterly most useless human emotion -- so I think that’s a case for serious play.
Video examples
Let's make the world...
if it just leads to nostalgia or despair. To the contrary, it's only useful if it motivates us
Video examples
Saving a Pangolin's Life...
is a nostalgia in namibia conservationists maria
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Edgar Wright
English Director
I'm very happy with my life and career, but I do find myself having serious attacks of nostalgia, and I don't quite know why. Even though I've got to travel the world and do amazing things, I still want to go back to my teenage years and change little aspects of it. It's strange, but it does continue to bug me.
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Sarah Paulson
American Actress
Looking back is a way to sharpen the focus on the things you want to change in your life. I think there's something about nostalgia that really puts a fine point on the here-and-now, and that can be incredibly fascinating and interesting and engaging for the mind.
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Alan Bennett
English Dramatist
I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that world. I do not want to be the person I am now in that world then. None of the forms nostalgia can take fits. I found childhood boring. I was glad it was over.
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Jeanne Moreau
French Actress
My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?
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Frans Timmermans
Dutch Politician
Responsible politicians should never indulge in nostalgia - it is too much of a distraction at a time when a rapidly changing world throws up so many challenges, when we need to keep our wits about us.
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Kate Adie
British Journalist
I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.
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Julio Cortazar
Argentinian Writer
Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.
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Craig David
English Musician
If I live my life through nostalgia and what I did in the past and expect to be the new kid people have just discovered again, then unfortunately, I'm creating my own demise.
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Greg Mottola
American Director
When you're a young person, the solace one can get from popular music is something I just have tremendous nostalgia for, affection for. I still have it.
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Frank Zappa
American Singer
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.
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Edgar Wright
English Director
I'm very happy with my life and career, but I do find myself having serious attacks of nostalgia, and I don't quite know why. Even though I've got to travel the world and do amazing things, I still want to go back to my teenage years and change little aspects of it. It's strange, but it does continue to bug me.
Quote examples
Sarah Paulson
American Actress
Looking back is a way to sharpen the focus on the things you want to change in your life. I think there's something about nostalgia that really puts a fine point on the here-and-now, and that can be incredibly fascinating and interesting and engaging for the mind.
Quote examples
Alan Bennett
English Dramatist
I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that world. I do not want to be the person I am now in that world then. None of the forms nostalgia can take fits. I found childhood boring. I was glad it was over.
Quote examples
Jeanne Moreau
French Actress
My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?
Quote examples
Frans Timmermans
Dutch Politician
Responsible politicians should never indulge in nostalgia - it is too much of a distraction at a time when a rapidly changing world throws up so many challenges, when we need to keep our wits about us.
Quote examples
Kate Adie
British Journalist
I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.
Quote examples
Julio Cortazar
Argentinian Writer
Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.
Quote examples
Craig David
English Musician
If I live my life through nostalgia and what I did in the past and expect to be the new kid people have just discovered again, then unfortunately, I'm creating my own demise.
Quote examples
Greg Mottola
American Director
When you're a young person, the solace one can get from popular music is something I just have tremendous nostalgia for, affection for. I still have it.
Quote examples
Frank Zappa
American Singer
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.
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