Leonora Carrington Quotes

I'm just a person. I'm not anything!

There's nothing very interesting about my life.

Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.

Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.

At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.

I'm no genius.

When you are 81 years old, you don't really need a lot of the trappings of wealth.

My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded.

I never expected to be anybody important.

I am in the prime of my senility.

Turning 90 is not for sissies.

I have never imagined being or wished to be chosen as something important in the world.

Everyone has a life. I haven't had a particularly interesting one.

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me.

I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.

Being old is such a treat!

I don't think what I have to say is that important.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

I quite like being old.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.

I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.

I'm not much of a show-off.

I like gettin' old.

You know, I'm really not that bright.