Marcello Mastroianni Quotes

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

Old is always fifteen years from now.

Ma sighed gently and said, "A whole year gone, Charles." But Pa answered, cheerfully: "What's a year amount to? We have all the time there is.

Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close.

To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.

We think of our future as anticipated memories.

Life is hopefully long, so I don't know what the future will bring.

I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

Hold fast to youth and beauty.

In a dream you are never eighty.

I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

When our memories outweigh our dreams we become old. And America is forever young.

When you are in the future, the past looks different.

Anyone of my age knows that days pass at a far greater speed than when they were young.

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

When you're young, you envision happiness in such an idealized way.

The future never comes. Life is always now.

We were always dreaming of how it was going to be.

Forever is a very long time, especially the bit towards the end.

The present moment dies every moment to become the past , is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends.

Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.

For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of course, time shifts a little for them and Christmas comes round in the end. But they don't feel it. Today is what they feel, and when they say 'When I grow up,' there is always an edge of disbelief - how could they ever be other than what they are?