John le Carre Quotes

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now and I am certainly healthier than I was in my early 30s. I am more rounded, too.

As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.

As you get older, you kind of take a more sober view of life.

As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

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

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

So, do I think I'm missing something? I really don't, and I think that comes with age.

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

Getting older and having kids, you learn how to become less serious about it all.

I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.

I used to panic and get rattled when I was young, but as I've got older, I've started literally to live day to day. With age, you work out what matters.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

At 40 years old you simply know what life is about.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.

People say that if you're still angry at 52, you're not an angry young man, just a grumpy old git.

I really feel better about aging at the age of 86 than I did at 70.

As you grow older, life seems funnier.

When I was younger, I took life much more seriously.

I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.

With age comes common sense and wisdom.