Kiefer Sutherland Quotes

I used to love getting older.

If you question any candid person who is no longer young, he is very likely to tell you that, having tasted life in this world, he has no wish to begin again as a "new boy" in another.

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

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

But, Lord Crist! whan that it remembreth me Upon my yowthe, and on my jolitee, It tickleth me aboute myn herte roote. Unto this day it dooth myn herte boote That I have had my world as in my tyme. But age, alias! that al wole envenyme, Hath me biraft my beautee and my pith. Lat go, farewel! the devel go therwith! The flour is goon, ther is namoore to telle; The bren, as I best kan, now most I selle.

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

You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.

I would not be young again, if you offered me the world. But then I'm prejudiced.' 'You talk,' I said, 'as if you were ninety-nine.' 'For a woman I very nearly am,' she said. 'I'm thirty five.

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger

Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.

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

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.

I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.

I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.