Thursday, September 25, 2025

Nostalgia is death

Nostalgia is an unhealthy depression, an adolescent sentimentality which leaves us clinging to the past so as to be unable to enter the present with verve and vitality. In the end it is a mummification, an unnatural embalming of something which is dead.—Ronald Rolheiser, Forgotten among the Lilies: Learning to Love beyond the Fears, 47

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