John Dryden Quotes

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

Young fighters dream of the future. Old fighters seek to recapture the past.

Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.

Maybe it's just getting older, but I don't want to miss things.

I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

I feel like you're only young once.

It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.

In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.

Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before.

When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back. Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?

J'ai plus de souvenirs que si j'avais mille ans. IhavemorememoriesthanifIwereonethousandyearsold.

Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream.

One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.

I think it is hard to find happiness, as a whole, in anything. The days of tender youth are gone. I think you can be delirious in your youth, but as you get older, things happen.

Sometimes we have only ten minutes to be with the love of our life and thousands of hours to spend thinking about them.

If youth knew; if age could.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

The moon I see now is the same moon I saw before. Except that before, when I looked at it, it was in anticipation of what it would be like when I got there. That's behind me now.

The older I get, the better I used to be.

The best years are behind me.

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

I never imagined my life would be the way that it has been for the past 30 years. I have had the best experiences a person can have-and the worst as well.

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