Jeff Lindsay Quotes

Life is a massive amount of feelings with the occasional profound engagement with intellect. As I get older, I hope the intellect takes over.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

Love has more depth as you get older.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

The difference between a 20-something and a 30-something man? Wisdom. At 20 years old, we don't really get how sensitive and beautiful women are. By 30, we're finally starting to learn.

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

I have matured a lot.

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

As far as my mindset changing, I see myself having more empathy in my older age.

The longer you live, the smarter you get because you've been around. You've seen things. You've gone through different emotional experiences in your own life, and hopefully, you understand things better. And that makes you a better actress.

You mature, you learn things.

I know I'm only 24, but I know in my head already I am mature, because I've got the right mental side of it.

One of the nice things about getting older is that you come to understand that you can integrate multiple aspects of your life together. When you're young, you think everything has to be binary, as that's exactly how you feel at that age.

I want to be older. I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I'm stronger, I'm smarter in every way, I'm so much less crazy than I was then.

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

You become more and more charged with your life and with a life that you're observing. When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding. I'm much more tolerant with others and with myself. I'm not in rebellion all the time, I'm not angry so much. But all those feelings are really useful [when you're young] because they fire us, as long as they don't get out of control.

One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

I just think that things get easier as you get older and wiser and more experienced. You get more confident about who you are as you get older. I find that really comforting.

All experience is good experience.

The more you've lived, the more you've experienced, you emotionally know a lot more, especially if you haven't had a regular, straightforward kind of life.

With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.

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

I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.