Phyllis Bottome Quotes

Why is youth so short and age so long?

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.

The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, you're going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is a recurring topic. I still think it's the main stuff.

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.

Age affects how people experience time.

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

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

Old is always fifteen years from now.

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

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

It's almost mind-boggling how time flies.

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.

Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and at its beginning. She died at 6:08 or 3:46, we say, or the baby was born at 4:02. But in between we slosh through huge swatches of time--weeks, months, years, decades even.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

I think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record.

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

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

We're not getting any younger.

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

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

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

If I stay in here until I am 100 years olds, I will still be a man.

I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.