Nicolas Roeg Quotes

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

You can't magic yourself back 10 years.

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

Before i knew the best part of my life had come ,it had gone.

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.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

This is where I have wasted the best years of my life.

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

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

I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you would see that I'm still brooding about statements, songs and issues from the third grade. The years between 1980 and today went by very, very quickly.

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

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

It is too late; now I wish I could live.

The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

It would be sad if my best work had been 20 years ago and now I only had memories.

The older I get the better I used to be!

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.

I was the future once.

Some things you can never get back.