Terry O'Quinn Quotes

When people get older, they get bitter or get cute.

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

The stuff that made me mad 20 years ago doesn't really make me mad any more.

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

As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.

The feelings we all have as 50-year-olds are different than the feelings we all have as 30-year-olds. That informs everything we do.

We're both getting older, our children are starting to leave home. But I can say that I'm just as passionate a songwriter now in my 50s as I was in my 20s. But instead of talking about the general kind of angst that I felt as a teenager, I'm writing about more specific issues.

As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody. Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.

Most people acquire a softer side with age and sometimes with dad that has been quite weird to see.

We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.

Age for me is just a number.

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

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

We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all; there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.

Age is like love, it cannot be hid.

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

I've gotten crankier in my old age.

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young.

My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.

I feel more mature than most people my age.

I always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old.

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

As I get older, my emotions are closer to the surface.

Aging is interesting, you know? I really love it.