Elizabeth Janeway Quotes

How I imagined myself being 50 is not how I am feeling now. You think you'll be different, but I still feel like I am about 12 years old - mentally, not physically.

You hear a lot of people, they turn 40 and it really bugs them and they get depressed or whatever. I don't know - I just don't feel that way. I feel 19 years old all the time. I mean, it's not a lie. I could easily say, God, I feel 70. Or maybe I seem like I'm 70 or 200 or something to other people, I don't know. My brain feels 19 all the time. And that's a good spot.

You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get.

I know that people have their own opinions and they look at what the norm is for people. I look at age as just being a number. In my mind my age is still 28 and I think I have to remember how old I am.

At 68 I'm every age I ever was. I always think of that. I'm not just 68. I'm also 55 and 21 and three. Oh especially three.

I don't feel like I am 66 at all. I feel more like I am 35. But I have a bus pass so it must be true.

Of late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age.

I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older. I recently did an on-line test called 'What's Your True Age?' My result was 50-60 years old.

I suddenly find out that I'm 60, and I get shocked by the number, because I feel like I'm 20.

I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.

I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!

I don't think about my physical age.

I still feel 29. Maybe I should act my age more, but I just can't.

I am only about 26 in my head.

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

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.

I've got an age that I do think of myself.

I don't think there is a woman in her 40s who doesn't, kind of, examine herself in the mirror.

Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?

How to fool yourself into feeling younger: When you go to restaurants, always check a coat and a skateboard.

What I thought 41 would be at 26 is definitely not what I feel now. I still feel incredibly youthful on the inside, in my brain.

It was only in my forties that I started feeling young.

Whatever age we are is the age we’ve always been.

I'm 48, which is a bit of a shock to me. Why only last year I thought I was a precocious young thing!