Oliver Sacks Quotes

I feel young at heart, and I feel, like, you know, 40.

I don't think that I'm old.

I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.

My kids think I'm old and over the hill.

I think as you get older, you tend to think of teenagers as really young.

Maybe it's that I'm naive, but I don't think of myself as an age.

Age is irrelevant.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Age for me is just a number.

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

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

One can't feel old in a day or overnight!

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

I don't feel 70. I am still looking out from 14-year-old eyes.

There's a scary moment when you realise you're no longer the youngest person in the room. Especially if you've been a successful young person. That's followed, of course, by the realisation that you're actually the oldest person in the room.

I learned a woman is never an old woman.

Do I feel like I'm 65? No. I feel like I'm 15. That's my problem. I'm trying as hard as I can to act like I'm 65, but it's very difficult.

Age is a number and nothing more.

To me, age is not that important.

When you are 20, 40 looks really old. When I was nearing 30, that seemed like a major milestone.

My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

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

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.