Brian Aldiss Quotes

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

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.

All my lies are only wishes / I know I would die if I could come back new.

Should at that moment the full moon Step forth upon the hill, And memories hard to bear at noon, By moonlight harder still, Form in the shadows of the trees, - Things that you could not spare And live, or so you thought, yet these All gone, and you still there, A man no longer what he was, Not yet the thing he planned.

I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.

They bit you. You should've changed, too, you know." "Sometimes I wish I had," I told him. He closed his eyes, miles away on the other side of the bed. "Sometimes I do, too.

Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just--well--being sad.

I mourn my old life here. We barely scraped by, but I knew where I fit in, I knew what my place was in the tightly interwoven fabric that was our life. I wish I could go back to it because, in retrospect, it seems so secure compared to now, when I am so rich and famous and so hated by the authorities in the capitol.

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

Wish I could spin my world into reverse just to have you back again

The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.

Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer a Second Assistant Librarian of the Great Library of the Clayr. Those days were gone, vanished with everything else that had defined her previous existence and identity.

The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific.

Now that I think of it, she looked splendid. I wish I had met her somewhere else. I wish I had appreciated her as she deserved. I wish that everything had gone differently.

If I could have just one more wish, I'd wipe the cobwebs from my eyes.

I don't think you can ever return, really.

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

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.

It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.

I cry for everything I abandoned and because I, too, have been left behind -- by Alex, by my mom, by time that has cut through our worlds and separated us.

Father's Day makes me wish I could talk to my Dad just one more time, instead of all the time.

I'm past carrying out some of the wishes that I would have wanted to do before, but I still dream about what I would like to do if I was able to do so.

How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once--through inexperience, as we now perceive--we missed that happiness we might have found!

It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.