Arthur Miller Quotes

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

As you get older, you come to a place in life where you can't just live in the present.

It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.

With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed - that's sort of the root of age.

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

Of course you do things differently in your 30s and 40s than in your 20s.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

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.

A few years ago, I got to a point where I realised that the only way you can tell someone's age is how they live their life. The candles on the cake mean absolutely nothing.

It's a beautiful thing at 60 to know who you are.

As you get older, you kind of take on things and become kind of different than what you used to be as a kid, obviously.

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

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don't need, what wears you out and what's important.

People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.

I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

You get to be a certain age - I am 58 - and it becomes tricky not to become a caricature of yourself.

I've learnt from my life experience.

I guess you could say I have grown up, matured. I have seen a lot, and I guess that probably sums it up.

You know what, being in my 30s is so much better than my 20s.

With age and experience, I started to know myself better.

I have learned a lot over the years. I have learned how best to use my attributes. That comes with a bit of knowledge and a bit of wisdom.