Siouxsie Sioux Quotes

I wasn't in any hurry to grow up and become this worldly person.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

I used to love getting older.

I regret losing my innocence so early.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

I feel old and vulnerable. I now realise that I knew nothing and know nothing, but back when my career was beginning, I thought I was a man when, in fact, I was a dewy-eyed boy who'd not seen an avocado or eaten a tomato.

When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants.

I don't yearn to be a child again.

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.

I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up.

You couldn't pay me enough money to go back to being 20. So many tears; what a nightmare it was. It's much better being older.

I've never been more than 9 years old.

We all are so serious when we are younger.

I feel like you're only young once.

Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger

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

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.