David Gemmell Quotes

Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

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

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

People like to say, "You're only as old as you feel," but it isn't true. It's just something old people say to make themselves feel good about their age. You're as old as you are.

Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three.

Age is never so old as youth would measure it.

You're only as old as you feel.

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.

Don't look at me like I've gotten old or something like that.

There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.

You're as young as you feel. As young as you want to be. There's an old saying I heard from a friend of mine. People ask him, "Why do you look so good at your age?" He'll say, "Because I never let the old man in." And there's truth to that. It's in your mind, how far you let him come in.

I'm never overawed by a situation and I think that's because I've always looked several years older than I am. So because people were treating me like I was 40 when I was 29, I've always felt in control of a situation. People used to say, when you're 32, you'll look 32. I'm still waiting for that moment, where my age catches up with my appearance.

Age is just a number baby, what are you now? 40?

I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.

Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.

White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.

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.

Word has it, they think I'm an old man, and they're not gonna double me. My message is that I'm the baddest for my age bracketest. What I mean by age bracketest is that I came in at 20, I was the baddest 20, and I'm the baddest at 35.

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

Calla readjusted, wrapping the silk around her other thigh instead. "Which one's he again? The pretty one?" Blue and Gansey exchanged a look. Blue's look said, I'm so, so sorry. Gansey's said, Am I the pretty one?

Do you think that I am an old man? I could prove to this congregation that I am young; for I could find more girls who would choose me for a husband than can carry any of the young men.

I don't feel like I am 66 at all. I feel more like I am 35. But I have a bus pass so it must be true.