William Sanderson Quotes

It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.

In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly.

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

It is always nice to reflect on how one started.

There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.

There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget.

On that first day when we look back, either happily or with remorse, to the stony ways over which we have traveled, losing concern for that part of the journey which is yet to come, we have grown old.

It's funny looking at yourself. You know how it is when you look back at old pictures? It's just funny looking back at yourself walking and talking at age 14.

I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of.

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.

I think you always have regrets.

That's a part of me going back to what I used to do.

I'm not into watching stuff I did last week, let alone three or four years ago.

Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.

The people in 'July, July' do find themselves looking backward, talking to others and to themselves about those over-the-cliff, fork-in-the-road moments in their lives. I imagine this is what must happen at a 30th college reunion.

I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn't done in life. They wish they hadn't kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

I'm not particularly fond of the past, but I do ramble on about it quite a bit.

I tend not to look back on old clips of myself or look at things I wrote or listen to something from the radio 30 years ago: I remember them, but it feels like someone else.

I've done a lot of things that I regret.

I regret so much. I've made mistakes. I've hurt people. I've done things I'm not proud of. But on the other hand, that way lies madness, you know?

One has to spend time sort of really going back through one's memories. When you do start doing that then, you do recall more as time goes on.

I did a lot of things I regret.