Ian Gillan Quotes

Young people think that nothing bad will ever happen to them.

There's a feeling of immortality you have in youth. You just don't see the dangers around you, or, if you do, maybe you're even excited by them.

At the end of the day, when you're young you think you're invincible.

You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.

When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof.

Well when you're young, you're just in love and every day is so new and so fresh and so beautiful. You just don't think of the future.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.

We are none of us infallible not even the youngest of us.

When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow may be for us and it may not.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could do anything wrong.

There was a time in my 40s where I thought, oh, it's all over - not just work, but I'm never going to feel young again, I'm always going to feel like I know what's going to happen, I'll know what to expect. Looking back I don't know if that was a midlife crisis, I don't know - but I don't feel that now. There's possibilities. It gets better.

When you're younger you feel more invincible - that nothing is ever going to get you down or beat you. When you get a bit older, you realise the fragility of things, how easy it is to get caught out by things - and Ant did.

I think my rookie, I was just having fun. I was 18, and I was living the American dream.

I have no illusions of the future. Or maybe it's all illusion. I don't know. I've always been ready for it.

When you're young, you're cocky.

Young people have to learn in a cocoon filled with false optimism. Unlike their parents and grandparents, they grow up with very little sense of the pitiless passage of time.

We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to anyone else.

At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.

We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.

A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?