Will Wright Quotes

Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.

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.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.

We're not getting any younger.

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

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

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

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

I just think age is meaningless. It's a system we've all agreed to that supposedly signals when we should develop, reach our peak and go downhill, as they say. It interferes with our natural growth.

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.

I think aging and maturing is really interesting, and it's a shame that Americans are so panicky and paranoid about it.

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

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

I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there's a mirror there. And you look in the mirror, and you're an old man.

I'm aging, and the world is seeing it.

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

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

People always talk about how time flies; it's become sort of a colloquialism now. You don't really understand it until you reach your late 30s and early 40s - and I'm sure time will move even faster as I get older.

We kind of deny the stages of life.

One of the main dilemmas that's pretty common to a lot of people who are getting older is the idea that maybe there's a finish line and that maybe there's a time in your life when you start to slow down and stop and smell the roses and just kind of settle into what will be a comfortable period in your life.

What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.