Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I’m sure you’ll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul.

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

Oh my gosh, I'd give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it's going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I've already forgotten.

There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.

It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.

A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.

Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.

He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

At my age you find yourself looking back from time to time and you begin to appreciate some of the things that happened to you.

I'll always push myself because that's the journey of life. We do go through things. Some of it's incredibly great and some of it's really bad.

We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art...what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered. I think I don't regret a single "excess" of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

You aren’t old enough to have such regrets.” “Pain doesn’t respect age, my lady.

Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.

I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

I think we should be proud of the fact that our face has got lines, because at least that means we have lived.

When I was young, I thought I wouldn't be a good mother. Now I think I would be, but I'm too long in the tooth.