Walter Martin Quotes

It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago.

Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.

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

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.

I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.

I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.

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

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

I am not nostalgic for the past.

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart.

I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.

I've done a lot of dumb things in my life.

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'm quite nostalgic. I like looking back over the papers and watching videos.

Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.

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

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.

Some stories, she’d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they sound more silly and flat. The other kind of story, it uses you up. The more you tell it, the stronger it gets. Those kind of stories only remind you how stupid you were. Are. Will always be.

Had you told me 20 years ago this would be my life, I'd have gone "What?" and then stuck out my tongue to all the girls that were mean to me.

Sometimes I lie awake at night thinking about all the dumb things I do every day... If I live to be eighty and I do ten dumb things each day... That would be about two hundred and ninety thousand dumb things... When you add up all the dumb things you do, it's best to use round figures.

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.