Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

It's funny, because when you're younger you're in a rush to be 18 or 21 or whatever. But then you hit 30. And now, the days go by like hours. You think, 40, man, this could be the halfway point. It could be the three-quarters point, you know? Who knows?

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.

There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the universe.

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

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.

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

As you get older, you come to a place in life where you can't just live in the present.

I don't spend a lot of time contending with the fact that time is not endless.

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.

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed - that's sort of the root of age.

I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day.

Age affects how people experience time.

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.

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

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.

Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.

I suddenly find out that I'm 60, and I get shocked by the number, because I feel like I'm 20.

At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart.

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.

If you try to stay young forever, you don't really live.

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.