Lauren Groff Quotes

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

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.

With age comes a greater understanding and a greater worldview.

Deeper things, heavier things happen to you as you get older and makes you more open.

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

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

As far as my mindset changing, I see myself having more empathy in my older age.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

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.

It's so much more interesting having life under your belt.

I guess you could say I have grown up, matured. I have seen a lot, and I guess that probably sums it up.

I'm just getting wiser as I get older.

I put all my big revelations into songs when I was in my 20s; as you get older, revelations are harder to come by.

The more life you live, the more you are able to understand the experiences of other people. It's one of the few benefits of getting older.

I've known and seen a lot of things over my years.

I love getting older.

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

The years don't always add wisdom, but they do add perspective.

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.