Julian Barnes Quotes

I think I've always looked older than I am. I hope that's going to work in my favor when I get older.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

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.

Some feel old at 45.

I still feel like I'm 19. We're old now!

I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Years are not important, my dear.

You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age?

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

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?

Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

Being middle-aged is about realising that you've lived most of your life. You don't have as much time in front of you as you have behind you.

Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

Whatever age you think I am, you're probably right.

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

Heavens, Mary, of course we'll laugh again. It's just that we'll never be young again.

Anyone of my age knows that days pass at a far greater speed than when they were young.

People always talk about how time flies; it's become sort of a colloquialism now. You don't really understand it until you reach your late 30s and early 40s - and I'm sure time will move even faster as I get older.