Laura Marling Quotes

My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet.

I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age.

I was young - I was 20 years old. Now I have the gift of perspective and I feel pretty good about it.

I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.

When I was 27, I didn't have a clue what was going on! At that age, to have that much power and to have that much ambition is something.

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin.

When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves.

If I had one regret in life... it's that I was not more humble at an earlier age.

The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things.

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

I was always proud of being tough-minded, and I think I still am, but in my old age I've got a little softer in the head, and that's all right.

I'm still 19, and I've got a lot to learn. I've got to keep improving and not get too carried away with myself.

When I was younger, I took everything seriously, and I still do to some degree.

I don't take myself too seriously, as I think I used to years ago, when I was younger.

One thing I can say is that as I've gotten older, I've gotten younger. I've grown up but I've kind of immatured (but matured!) but I've allowed myself to be a kid. When I was a kid, I was so much of a professional and carried myself that way. It was crazy.

You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.

'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.

I learned that I'm not young enough to think I know everything. Honestly. I think you hit a certain point in life where you expect that you have so much to learn, and you may think that you've arrived, but you have kind of just begun.

Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.

When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.

The older you get, the better you realize you were.

Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.

A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.