Daphne du Maurier Quotes

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

Years are not important, my dear.

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old.

I used to love getting older.

There's always time to grow older. You can never grow younger.

It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.

I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.

You know, I wish I wasn't so young when I made some of my movies, because I thought that's what the rest of my life was going to be like and I'd have all the time in the world to enjoy it. It wasn't and I didn't.

I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

But time growing old teaches all things.