Florida Scott-Maxwell Quotes

The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

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.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

I'm a late bloomer. I believe 40 is the new 19.

It takes a long time to become young.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

I think you get better as you get older.

Many years ago, I used to say, 'I haven't lived long enough to be great.' Now I don't say that.

As I get older, I've been having a better and better time.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

As you get older, you come to a place in life where you can't just live in the present.

Just as you get older, you gain more experiences, you see more things.

There are things that you write when you're 20 and there are things that you write when you're 40 and then there are things that you write when you're old.

I've grown up, but not grown old; I hope there's a difference.

Your priorities change when you get older.

We're learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.

What applies when we're younger maybe doesn't so much when we get a little bit older.

You get older, you slow down. Failure feels like less of a humiliation and more of a balanced return.