Dave Eggers Quotes

I'm at a weird spot because I look so young and I feel young, but I'm not young.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

One thing I can say is that as I've gotten older, I've gotten younger. I've grown up but I've kind of immatured (but matured!) but I've allowed myself to be a kid. When I was a kid, I was so much of a professional and carried myself that way. It was crazy.

I know that I am old, because even if I think I'm younger than everyone - but that's true - my way of hoping and continuing is that I am always in a younger position than the other one.

Youth is a frame of mind. If you get out there and enjoy it, you can have it at any time of your life.

I don't feel old. Okay, maybe I do when I get in a conversation with Earl Thomas, who was born in 1989.

I've got the rest of my life to be a grown-up. And for now, it's OK to be young.

I still feel like I'm 19. We're old now!

If I am young, then you should look not to age but to deeds.

When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren't that wrong. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young erode. We end up all belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself.

If you still think you're a young pup then you are, no matter what the calendar says

One of the positives of getting older is that you forget your age. Then you find out that you're younger than you thought you were.

I definitely don't consider myself a kid anymore. I feel like an old man, an old 28-year-old.

I know that is absolutely true for people when they are young - you don't want to be alive if the things that you love in your life aren't there.

When I was young, life seemed long and endless to me.

However, withered, I still feel myself to be exactly the same person I've always been. Hard to explain that to the young. we may look truly reptilian, but we're not a separate tribe.

Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.

Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

Still young and fine! but what is still in view We slight as old and soil'd, though fresh and new.

I see myself as the world's oldest living teenager... I try to get as much kick out of things as possible.

Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before.

it is harder to be philosophical when you are young.

You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.

You could never be an adolescent if you don't look like one.