Eugene Ionesco Quotes

Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

It's so much more interesting having life under your belt.

The years don't always add wisdom, but they do add perspective.

He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

I've always played way older than my age. It's the experience behind my eyes or something.

I'm young but I'm not stupid.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.

When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.

I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.