Ben Gibbard Quotes

As a person gets older, time gets more interesting. As a kid, you waste so much of it.

Anyone of my age knows that days pass at a far greater speed than when they were young.

Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.

Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.

With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed - that's sort of the root of age.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

As you get older, you come to a place in life where you can't just live in the present.

When I was younger, 15 years or 20 years seemed like a really long time. But, as you journey though life, you don't realise where the years disappear.

It's almost mind-boggling how time flies.

Age is like love, it cannot be hid.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

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.