Karen Thompson Walker Quotes

I was the future once.

I wish you could see a new Cro Cop, 15 years younger. I wish it was possible.

The best years are behind me.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

The sweetest two words are 'next time.' The sourest word is 'if.'

This is what happens when you get old and have a couple of bucks. You go back and try to be young again.

For me, personally, there is one really interesting thing. You're all a bit too young for that, but when you get to a certain level of experience, accumulation of experience you start slowly to once in a while get a whiff of the feeling, I'd love to be twenty years younger but with what I know and have experienced at this point.

None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.

Oh, I wish I was young again when everything seemed so wonderful!

Oh, to be seventy again!

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

When you get older you have to be careful about always saying, "Things aren't as good as they used to be." But it's hard not to.

If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger

I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.

Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.

Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: "Make me young, make me young, make me young!

That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by Age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed, what we tore away from that self who could do more, and its work that's become my enemy because that's what I can tell you about, that Youth who could do anything.

Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?

She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been

In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.

When I was Younger, I wanted to be something.Now, I just want to be younger.

You know, I wish I wasn't so young when I made some of my movies, because I thought that's what the rest of my life was going to be like and I'd have all the time in the world to enjoy it. It wasn't and I didn't.

A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.