Eric Mabius Quotes

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

When you are 15, everything is such high stakes, even tiny things. I think because of that, it is funny but sad at the same time.

When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting.

The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.

It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Looking at my own prom photograph reminds me of how significant that moment was - and how fleeting life is.

Particularly in these high school-set movies, there's something about being in high school that's like a cauldron, a boiling pot of emotion and joy and heartbreak that you feel so intensely. Because you don't have any awareness yet, you don't realize that it's a finite time and feeling.

I remember when I was 15 or 16 years old, I couldn't imagine what life would be like past the age of 30, just because I didn't know that many men who had lived beyond their 20s.

Coming-of-age stories in high school are exciting because everything that happens during that time is very heightened.

I feel like you're only young once.

I arrived when I was a kid; I was just 17. I would have liked to have played more, but I learned a lot in Manchester.

What do you know when you're 19? I was just stomping around doing gigs.

During teenager times, the feelings of longing is perhaps at its most strong and profound because everything feels multiplied by ten.

I got sick of high school really quick, and I dropped out in 10th or 11th grade. I was in such a rush to grow up that I think I missed a lot of it.

I think when you are 17 you are very innocent.

I was precocious, so I began reading 'Cosmo' when I was 12.

There's an old saying in football - the circus doesn't stay in town forever. The older you get, the more you realize there's a deeper meaning. It's better to leave 3 hours too soon than a minute too late.

I started writing my first book for young people when I was in college. I was only a couple of years out of my teens when I began; I felt closer to that experience than I did as an adult. But I've always been drawn to stories about young people.

I've realized that I will probably write about teenagers and that time in people's lives - I'll probably come back to it a lot.

Over time I'm slowly living out all of my high school experiences on camera.

I have to remind myself that it may never be this good again.

The whole notion of never growing up is incredibly intense and emotional.