Mark Lanegan Quotes

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

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.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

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

I'm just getting wiser as I get older.

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

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.

I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.

All experience is good experience.

So, do I think I'm missing something? I really don't, and I think that comes with age.

I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

Many years ago, I used to say, 'I haven't lived long enough to be great.' Now I don't say that.

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.

I am not young enough to know everything.

It's what you learn after you know it all, that counts.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Just as you get older, you gain more experiences, you see more things.