Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.

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

I've been a 90-year-old man since I was 12 years old.

I feel a lot older than I am.

I think in your 30s you can still pretend you're in your 20s, or at least maintain some semblance of youth. Forty is when you've got to stop denying the inevitable.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

Things don't have to come to you in your youth. It's fine for them to come to you when you get older. That's a motto in my household.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

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

I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

I feel like I'm 1,000. I don't feel I'm young enough a lot of the time.

I feel old and vulnerable. I now realise that I knew nothing and know nothing, but back when my career was beginning, I thought I was a man when, in fact, I was a dewy-eyed boy who'd not seen an avocado or eaten a tomato.

Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17.

I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

I have the sort of round face that you complain about when you're younger, but which serves you well as you get older.

The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

I've always looked old for my age.

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.