Mark Kozelek Quotes

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

As you get older, you look at things differently.

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

Turning 60 had an impact on my heart and soul, I must say, because you're dealing with time: past, present, and future. You suddenly realize you've come down the road quite a ways.

The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't.

Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

If I stay in here until I am 100 years olds, I will still be a man.

At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart.

As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you'll live forever.

Time puts things in proper perspective.

Being middle-aged is about realising that you've lived most of your life. You don't have as much time in front of you as you have behind you.

There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the universe.

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Many years ago, I used to say, 'I haven't lived long enough to be great.' Now I don't say that.

I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked.

You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'

I'm conscious of age, but I'm more suspicious of it than anything.

Aging is a synonym for living.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.