Hayao Miyazaki Quotes

But you can't start over Only a boy can start over You and me Why, we're all that's been

We don’t get to replay history.

Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

I walked away from acting for eight years and tried to make the choice that I should have made when I was 21. But, it doesn't make any difference. Nothing changed. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.

We can never go back.

Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.

the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.

You know, small children take it as a matter of course that things will change every day and grown-ups understand that things change sooner or later and their job is to keep them from changing as long as possible. It’s only kids in high school who are convinced they’re never going to change. There’s always going to be a pep rally and there’s always going to be a spectator bus, somewhere out there in their future.

Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.

You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

There was a level on which I believed that what had happened remained reversible

I am interested in the past. Perhaps one of the reasons is we cannot make, cannot change the past. I mean you can hardly unmake the present. But the past after all is merely to say a memory, a dream. You know my own past seems continually changed when I am remembering it, or reading things that are interesting to me.

That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.

I saw a Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac. A little voice inside my head said, don't look back, you can never look back.

Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands

The past is not a package one can lay away.

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ... Time, self-pity, apathy, bitterness, and exhaustion can take the Christmas out of the child, but you cannot take the child out of Christmas.

What's the point of being a grown-up if you can't indulge the kid inside you every now and then?

Ah, there are no longer any children!