John Buford Quotes

I do not expect to see home again, though that is what I want.

Now it’s too late!

I'd like to have all of my losses back. But it's too late for that.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

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

No one wants life to end. It was bad enough when my last tour came to an end.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.

As I settled down to sleep in that new bed in the dark city, I saw that it was too late now, too late for everything. I would not be given a second chance. In the hours when I woke, I have to tell you that this struck me almost with relief.

The Things that never can come back, are several - Childhood - some forms of Hope - the Dead.

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

We can't get our youth back.

There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.

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

Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.

I would have liked to have worked with Ralph Richardson and Paul Scofield, but they're dead now.

If I missed my moment, I missed my moment. I mean, I wasn't pining to be president of the United States.

I envy the dead.

We do not ask the right questions when we are young, so we miss the important answers. Now it is too late to ask, too late for the illuminating answers, and the unanswered questions haunt us for a lifetime.

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

Once, I went speeding past an old couple and smiled as I imagined their conversation: him grumbling about me and her telling him not to be such an old grouch. Then, suddenly I was in tears, thinking, 'I'll never get to be a grumpy old grandpa!'