Joe Abercrombie Quotes

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

I used to love getting older.

When you get older you have to be careful about always saying, "Things aren't as good as they used to be." But it's hard not to.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.

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

Either 'Deuce Coupe' has aged badly, or I have. I suspect it's the latter.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

You know, I wish I wasn't so young when I made some of my movies, because I thought that's what the rest of my life was going to be like and I'd have all the time in the world to enjoy it. It wasn't and I didn't.

I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

People often yearn back to more innocent times, but more and more, as I get older, I find myself hankering after more jaded days.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.

I don't want to be 25 again.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

I used to love the '20s.

Things ain't what they used to be and never were.

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.