Nick Cave Quotes

I can't do a million things anymore like I could when I was younger.

I had many decades of me time and now I just don't have that anymore. There are days when I rail against it.

I don't really have a choice. I'm getting older.

At a very young age, I could look at people and tell that everyone was, in a sense, worthless in their own mind. And you couldn't trust anyone. No one was good.

Ageing is something that both men and women are utterly terrified about.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.

I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.

I think, when I'm 73, I'm going to be getting softer, writing Hallmark cards, losing my teeth.

I used to love getting older.

Of course, no one wants to get older.

Young guys kind of have this chip on their shoulder of, 'I want to prove something,' right? 'I've got to prove how tough I am. I've got to prove how good I am.' And man, now as I'm getting older, I think it's almost sad when guys my age and older still have that chip on their shoulder.

No one looks forward to getting old do they?

Before you know it, I'm not going to be able to tie these boots up and do what I do in the ring for my whole life. We're all getting older, so I'm trying to live in the moment and enjoy everything that's being thrown at me.

I just hate getting old - it's slowing me down.

I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?

When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?

All the bloomy flush of life is fled.

I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.

Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.

when you are old and realize that time is running out, you start imagining that you have the cure for all the ills of the world in your hand, and get frustrated because no one pays you any attention.

Let me tell you something you haven't learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn't matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, events - they all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your confidence, to make you question things you wouldn't have given a second thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you don't even notice at first, and then one day it's there. You wake up and you just don't have the fire anymore." He smiled.