Carolyn Wells Quotes

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.

I can only be the madman that I've been so long.

When I said, 'I'm only 19, but my mind is old' - at that time, when I said that line, I was 18.

The great thing about getting older is that you learn not to care about being cool. I'm happy with who I am, I know what I like and I can't see myself changing… not for a little while, at least.

If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles.

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

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

In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else.

My age now, like my age 20 years ago, marks the year in which I was born. That's all.

I think time just goes faster and faster. I'm saying this a few months away from my fortieth birthday. I don't know when and if one's identity ever does catch up with one's actual age. Personally I feel like I just got the hang of thirty-five.

For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three.

You cannot know, and become, that which you are, in the absence of that which you are not, as I have already explained to you.

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy... If I try self-consciously to become a person, I will never be one. The most real people, those who are able to forget their selfish selves, who have true compassion, are usually the most distinct individuals

I have many problems in my life, but I don't think that identity is one of them.

We are the mirror - As well as the face in it.

Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -

I grow aware of various forms of man and of myself. I am form and I am formless, I am life and I am matter, mortal and immortal. I am one and many -- myself and humanity in flux.

The fact was I didn't want to look my age, but I didn't want to act the age I wanted to look either. I also wanted to grow old enough to understand that sentence.

I'm little but I'm old.

If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to be in misery. You have to own who you are, and part of who you are is your age.

I was so young when I was born.

The thing I call ‘my mind’ seems to be kind of like a landlord that doesn’t really know its tenants.

it's impossible I should have a mind and I have one

As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.

As a woman, when you embrace where you are in life, then I think the struggle [life] isn't so hard. If you're 42 and still think you're an ingenue, then you've got a problem.