Franz Grillparzer Quotes

Old is always fifteen years from now.

The old folk, time's doting chronicles.

The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.

The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.

I was born in 1949 - which seems like a long time ago... Actually, it is a long time ago, when I think about it.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

There is always something rather absurd about the past.

The good old times—all times when old are good.

I only remember the future.

When you are in the future, the past looks different.

Old is when people compliment your alligator shoes, and you're not wearing any.

Our memory is and always will be as good as time travel gets, and in the meantime time will do the travelling for us.

You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved from the darts board to the bar, and from the bar to the door of the Gents ... "The beer was better," he said finally. "And cheaper! When I was a young man, mild beer - wallop we used to call it - was fourpence a pint. That was before the war, of course." "Which war was that?" said Winston. "It's all wars," said the old man vaguely. He took up his glass, and his shoulders straightened again. "'Ere's wishing you the very best of 'ealth!

It was a long time ago now. And it was yesterday.

Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close.

Nobody ever lived in the past.

Le temps qui change les e" tres ne modifie pas l'image que nous avons garde e d'eux. Although time changes people, it cannot change the image we have already made of them.

I still feel like I'm 19. We're old now!

The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.