You miss so much when you’re young. It’s fine to be old. So exciting. And I’m not going to retire.

I didn’t want to miss my twenties preparing for the rest of my life.

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.

I'd learned to feel nostalgia for my own youth while I was living it.

She could remember the girl she used to be with fondness, but it wasn’t a youth she cared to recapture.

Man, is it wrong to miss being young and sure of yourself?

Bestow therefore thy youth so, that thou mayest have comfort to remember it when it hath forsaken thee, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.

I don’t regret knowing myself, ma’am. I don’t even regret…being myself.

I nothing had, and yet enough for youth — Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion, — O, give me back my youth again!

I do not regret my youth and its beliefs. Up to now, I have wasted my time to live. Youth is the true force, but it is too rarely lucid. Sometimes it has a triumphant liking for what is now, and the pugnacious broadside of paradox may please it. But there is a degree in innovation which they who have not lived very much cannot attain. And yet who knows if the stern greatness of present events will not have educated and aged the generation which to-day forms humanity's effective frontier? Whatever our hope may be, if we did not place it in youth, where should we place it?

I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.

The one thing I don't wanna be is, I don't wanna be forgotten. And I think I've done a pretty good job of that.