Paul Cezanne Quotes

I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.

I think part of being an adult is leaving the fairytale behind.

I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'

I'm no longer in my 20s, and I think, by default, the rose-colored glasses are off.

When you're younger, love is this magic thing where the heavens open up. You live 40 years past that, you realize sometimes the heavens close down.

I know I felt like I was ready to be an adult long before the rest of the world agreed. I'd already realized that a lot of grown-ups didn't know any more than I did, and some of them were even dumber than I was, and even the ones who were smarter weren't using their smarts for things I necessarily considered worthwhile.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

I may be getting old, but not foolish.

I haven't changed a bit. I go out with my mates, but I probably have to watch what I do a little more.

I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can.

Oh my gosh, I'd give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it's going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I've already forgotten.

I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.

It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.

Seeing my parents makes me realise that life is not a fairy tale.

I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.

I'm too old to do crazy things anymore.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

As I get older the stars have gone from my eyes more, and I see that life is just something that has to be lived with, that it's better not to struggle.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.