
“Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.”
Source: The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes
"Old Souls" - Jessica Harper (Phoenix), performing the song in the film http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wegZ1OTzjkY&feature=related, at Phantompalooza2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3E0vRGKad0 - shorter clip of the Phantompalooza, but better quality http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRllIuC-9AA
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Context: Our love is an old love, baby.
It's older than all our years.
I have seen in strange young eyes
Familiar tears.
“Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.”
Source: The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes
"Pride and Joy"
Song lyrics
“Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”
Actually by financier Bernard Baruch.
Misattributed
“To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”
On his 85th birthday, as quoted in The Observer [London] (21 August 1955)
In Katharine Viner The Guardian Year 2006 http://books.google.com/books?id=FqEWAQAAIAAJ, Random House, 2007, p. 287