Paulo Coelho Quotes

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.

Years are not important, my dear.

I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.

Things change. Nothing ever stays the same, yo. You ain't never gonna stay 25 or 30 or 40. You always gonna change. Every day, you change.

My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love, And though the sager sort our deeds reprove, Let us not weigh them. Heaven's great lamps do dive Into their west, and straight again revive, But soon as once set is our little light, Then must we sleep one ever-during night. See Catullus 200:5.

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

Love knows no winter; no, no! It is, and remains the sign of spring.

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom add what will equal the generous first growths of our youth, yet friendship becomes insensibly old in much less time than is commonly imagined, and not many years are required to make it mellow and pleasant.

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still.

You slow down when you get older.

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.

I don't want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.