Walter Mosley Quotes

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

One day, I got so disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called 'Justin's list of things to do before he kicks the bucket.' I wrote it for myself and shortened it to 'Justin's Bucket List.' It was there on the wall, not as a story idea but as a motivational tool for myself, which actually ended up working pretty well.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

When you are 25 or even 30, you can just do things. When you get to 35, things are different. Time is more precious to me now. I've got my priorities.

By the time I'm 90, I hope to have it together.

Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.

I do not really think about age. I am just sort of trying to get as much done before I get old and can't.

When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

I did a lot during my lifetime and I think it is time to make a change to my life at a young age of 87.

As I'm getting older, I feel like maybe I need to grow up a bit.

When I was younger, I had a different disposition as far as how I wanted to live life.

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

If I die tomorrow, I've accomplished everything I wanted to do in life.

I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.

I'm not one of these people who likes to do as little as possible. I really do feel the hot breath of time on the back of my neck these days. And there are certain things I want to do before my time is up.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.