Deryck Whibley Quotes

As you get older, you grow and you revaluate.

"Why is everyone trying to tell me that when you get older it gets better?" I didn't believe it, because I'm so contrarian and suspicious of everything. And then to find that it's kind of true is nice.

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.

As you get older, all the things your parents said to you when you were younger ring true, but when you're younger, you reject them.

but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.

I thought I knew everything about love and relationships in my 20s, the ignorance of youth is bliss. As you get older, you start to realise that you don't really know anything and life is a great traveling journey. Life is unexpected...you just never know whats going to happen.

I'm like a guy hanging down from a horse's belly trying to establish control. On a scale of 1 to 100, I'm at 1, and I'm trying to get to 2. The older I get, the more I enjoy control, because I've lived out of control for a long, long time.

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

I guess getting older has its benefits, one of them being perspective.

I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.

I mean I’m 16 and 17 years wiser now. So if I could do it when I was 18 with a guy, I can certainly do it at 33 with a lady.

I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.

When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

I'm moving - as a person and as a writer - through time. I'm a different age. I'm thinking about different things. I have different life experiences. I'm trying to get closer to being honest. And by closer I mean that at different ages I have different ideas of what the truth is, and at any point I'm trying to express that at that moment in time.

As you get old, you live and learn.

As I grow older, I constantly learn more.

I think, one thing that I've really come to appreciate about my parents as I've got older is you know, how wise they really were. As a kid when I was growing up, as any kid, you think you know every thing and I was no different to that. I had different opinions on a lot of different things then them but the way they raised me, in hindsight, they were right.

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

But maybe as I get older, I begin to see beauty where I least expected it before.

In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on, one is less often delighted or surprised, but also less disappointed than in earlier years.

I'm growing older, but not up.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

You've got to make adjustments as you get older.

Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.

We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I was a father.