Erik Satie Quotes

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

Age is like love, it cannot be hid.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

I'm not 20 anymore, and I feel it.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

I used to love getting older.

I learned that if you wait long enough, you just grow older.

I've been around a long time. I've seen it all before.

You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I’m sure you’ll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul.

When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

What I've lost in years I've gained in wisdom. Bullshit, I haven't learnt one thing in the last 15 years that hasn't just depressed me more.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn't bother me.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'