Nick Cave Quotes

You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.

There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.

Wasting time just going mindless, watching your charades. When you were younger, did it occur to you 10 years from then you'd act the same age?

They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.

If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps.

Longevity in my family's been pretty good. And my grandparents were pretty spry at their age, so I figured I'd probably stay skinny and fairly agile. I used to do old men all the time in sketches. And there used to be an organization called the Gray Panthers. And they would send me, oh, terrible letters about making fun of old people. And I would just always say, "I'm playing the old person I intend to become!"

The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.

I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be, I always forget to include myself.

The older I get, the less I care about what’s cool. I realize I’m old and weird.

No one should let themselves get used to anything.

I never want to feel complacent, and I had started to, a little bit. I had started to feel like "I have this thing I can do, it's worked a few times," but not only does that get boring, but you feel stagnant and unproductive. So I was feeling a lack of creativity and motivation, so I started making a more conscious choice to grow personally. It wasn't even an image-conscious thing, like, "I don't want people to think this way about me." It was really just a way to keep myself energized and feel excited about this thing I love doing. Like I went to couples therapy or something.

Some people don't even notice. "Oh, you sound exactly like you did!" And I say, "OK, if that's what you want to believe, that's fine."

I am what I am - which is I have aged.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

So far, this is the oldest I've been.

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

I've always been terrified of getting used to something that is actually killing me-a relationship or a job. But in those cases, you can count on a friend to say something. The Internet is different, because all my friends are in the same relationship.

The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self.