Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

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

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

I'll never make the mistake of being 70 again.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

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

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.

In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still young.

I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.

Nobody stays young forever.

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up