Robertson Davies Quotes

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.

Everything that happens later in life is appreciated in a different way. You can appreciate the thing for what it is, which you couldn't if you were 25 and had never experienced much else. You would take it all for granted and think that's what life is like.

Aging is interesting, you know? I really love it.

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

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've become 40, my audience is partly the same age.

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.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

I am too old to think.

I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it!

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great.

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