Ransom Riggs Quotes

I feel like I was born in the wrong time.

I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the mid-to-late '40s.

I've got to confess... I do feel slightly like I've been born in the wrong time.

I always say I was born too late in the world, too old.

I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

I exist only in the past.

Is the modern social pattern of unending change and movement the cause of two modern diseases, insecurity and dissatisfaction? How lucky Thomas Hood was to be able to write, 'I remember, I remember the house where I was born.' I don't even know what mine looked like!

Very often, as I wander through life, I'll get that old feeling that I've come back from the future, and I'm living in the past. And it's a really horrible feeling.

Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.

I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.

The malcontent is neither well, full nor fasting; and though he abounds with complaints, yet nothing dislikes him but the present; for what he condemns while it was, once passed, he magnifies and strives to recall it out of the jaw of time. What he hath he seeth not, his eyes are so taken up with what he wants; and what he sees he careth not for, because be cares so much for that which is not.

I was always a 'grass is greener' kind of guy.

There is always something to miss, no matter where you are.

That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago,“ has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.

When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he'd even bothered.

We're all the same, we all think its better somewhere else; its better being older if you're younger - or its better being younger when we're older.

I feel like I'm a time traveler from the future who has been sent back to be annoyed.

They're always looking forward to going places they're just coming back from, or regretting doing things they haven't yet done. They say hello when they mean goodbye.

There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.

It was a strange combination to absorb - the everyday concerns of the town doctor stuck in the middle of a discussion of his early days in seventeenth-century London.

The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings.

Sometimes I wish there were do over years or fast forward days