Jasper Carrott Quotes

I don't love the fact that gravity is winning as I get older, but there's also a calmness that comes with it, which I'm secretly enjoying.

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 find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about. At the same time, I'm less haunted by it than I was as a younger person. I guess that's probably the ideal: to reach a point where you have access to all of your memories, but you don't feel victimized by them.

Turning 60 had an impact on my heart and soul, I must say, because you're dealing with time: past, present, and future. You suddenly realize you've come down the road quite a ways.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

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.

It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.

I don't really regret anything in my life.

The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't.

I think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a more laid-back approach in my apologies.

There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

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

Being middle-aged is about realising that you've lived most of your life. You don't have as much time in front of you as you have behind you.

When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.

Getting older is fine. There is nothing you can do to stop it so you might as well stay on the bus.

I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old... Your days are gone; it is part of life.

Certainly, there were tough times, but no, you can't go back and change it. So, why dwell on it?

My perspective is so much different now, being 41. The main difference between now and then is just realizing that your time will come to an end - and that it might not be far away. You see your face change, see the gray hairs sprouting up. When you're 24, you worry about the day you'll turn 40.

I'm getting older. That's realistic. I can't reverse time. I can slow it down a little bit.

You got to keep your feet on the ground, and it is what it is.

I think that the older I get, the more I play, you realise when it's your time.

Some of these little girls are afraid to admit they are getting older. I am not afraid. You can't put your finger in the sun and stop time.