Stephen King Quotes

You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

When we are no longer children, we are already dead.

It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

When you are young, nothing is more important than football, but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

I think aging and maturing is really interesting, and it's a shame that Americans are so panicky and paranoid about it.

And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.

They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.

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

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.

I sometimes miss the sense of excitement that I remember having when I was younger. I miss that sense of, 'Oh wow.' I think it's part of aging.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it!

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.

At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart.

You can't be 16 forever.