Hal Boyle Quotes

The past is like a handful of dust. It filters through your fingers, disappearing little by little. I wish, for one day, I could go back. In another life I would do things differently.

And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.

Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.

You know, I auditioned for 'Titanic.' Sometimes I muse on what would have happened. That would have been such a different life.

I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.

I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.

I'm sure once my career's over, when I look back when I'm older, I can maybe appreciate it a little bit more.

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

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.

I do try not to dwell on the past too much, because I have a tendency to do that, and as I've gotten older, I've gotten very good at distancing myself from shoulda, woulda, coulda.

I think, as you get older, you reflect at the silliness of your youth and the stupidity of some of the decisions that were made, and the ego and whatnot, or whatever played into it.

You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

- and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet said all we wanted to say to each other... May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again!

If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?

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.

I go back to December, turn around and make it alright I go back to December, turn around and change my own mind I go back to December all the time

Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!

The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

Haven't you ever wished that you could steal back just a few hours of your past?" she asked softly. "That's all I want... just a little taste of what might have been.

It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.

There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.

If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years.

Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.