Shawn Crahan Quotes

Iowa is kind of a fascinating place.

You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.

What was lost was lost. There was no retrieving it, however you schemed, no returning to how things were, no going back.

I like Iowa. I know Iowa. I've spent some time in Iowa. Good people in Iowa. It's a great state.

For me, the past is dead. Can't go back.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

You can't change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's you can never go back.

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

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.

If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards.

Once a place becomes special, it's no longer special.

When 'Deadwood' ended, I thought, 'I'll never have this again, ever.'

Should I get back to playing like the 18-year-old Mario Gotze again? I will never be the old Mario Gotze again.

I have a soft spot for Iowa.

If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.

You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.

That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on

This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.

Time is never time at all. You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth. And our lives are forever changed. We will never be the same. The more you change, the less you feel.

You can't go home again

It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

I did not want to move. For I had the feeling that this was a place, once seen, that could not be seen again. If I left and then came back, it would not be the same; no matter how many times I might return to this particular spot the place and feeling would never be the same, something would be lost or something would be added, and there never would exist again, through all eternity, all the integrated factors that made it what it was in this magic moment.

There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.