Orson Scott Card Quotes

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

This year, when I turn 65, I thought, 'So weird;' when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I'm so nowhere near that.

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

As I saw my 60th birthday approaching, I thought,What did 60 mean to me? I figured I'd probably live until I'm about 90, which meant that I was at the beginning of what I call my third act. As an actress, I know how important the third act is. It makes sense of the first and second acts. You can have first and second acts that are interesting, but you don't know what they mean. Then a good third act pulls it all together. And so I knew that, because I sat by my father's side over the long months when he was dying.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

Age affects how people experience time.

I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.

Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old.

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

If I stay in here until I am 100 years olds, I will still be a man.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age.

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.

As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you'll live forever.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

It's different from being 21 and you think there's endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

You can tell by looking at me that I've got more miles behind me than I've got in front of me. When you reach that point, if you've got some good years left, you want to make sure that you use them wisely.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.