T. S. Eliot Quotes

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?

I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.

I am all the ages I've ever been.

Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

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

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

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

It's kind of a Peter Pan thing: I want to stay a kid. I love it. But I guess you have to grow up someday. Everybody does.

I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

I feel like I experienced my 20s in all their glory and all their disastrousness.

I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

I never grew up.

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?

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.