Daphne du Maurier Quotes

I think you're a little more fragile when you're younger.

Can the child within my heart rise above Can I sail through the changing ocean tides Can I handle the seasons of my life Well, I've been afraid of changing 'Cause I've built my life around you But time makes you get bolder Even children get older And I'm getting older too

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

I was 14 when I moved into my own apartment. I was so scared. I didn't know anything.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

Now, I'm getting a little older, got more responsibility, I don't need to be depressed.

I think 30 is a big jump from your 20s, but 40 holds no fear for me.

When I was younger, things got to me more, but not now.

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

What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.”

I'm actually very vulnerable and sensitive.

Trust is not very easy for me at all. I want to be a trusting person, but I've been bruised so many times - not to sound woe-is-me about my life.

All my life, I've been the kind of person who could shatter easily.

I've gotten to the age where I'm comfortable with just about everything - except getting old!

I wish I could unknow this, but there is a perception of me that I'm super-sensitive and fragile. And I am super-sensitive, and I don't think that that's a bad thing. To do what I do, I have to remain open.

When you're younger you feel more invincible - that nothing is ever going to get you down or beat you. When you get a bit older, you realise the fragility of things, how easy it is to get caught out by things - and Ant did.

I kind of spooked myself about getting older. It's not that bad really.

Maybe when you're 18, 19, 20, you could have a bit of a wobble if you're going on live TV and playing guitar. But in your thirties you've got to just grow up about it.

When you get to a certain age any big change is hard to deal with.

I don't cry unless it's personal.

I would like to be soft and warm. I would be terrified to be that way. I could be hurt if I were soft and warm. I could be hurt by something other than myself. It is harder to be soft than it is to be hard. I could be hurt by something other than myself.

Weakness is a great bully without knowing it.

When we cling, often forever, to our old patterns of thinking and behaving, we fall to negotiate any crisis, to truly grow up, and to experience the joyful sense of rebirth that accompanies the successful transition into greater maturity.

To be strong is to understand weakness. To be weak is to have fears. To have fears is to have something precious to you. To have something precious to you is to be strong.

I've been hurt so many times I don't have the balls for it anymore.