Monica Ali Quotes

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

The older I get, the more relaxed I am.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

Getting older and having kids, you learn how to become less serious about it all.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.

I think this is one of the benefits of getting older: that one has that perspective on things farther away. One is so caught up in middle years in the idea of accomplishing something when, in fact, the full accomplishment is always with one.

I have to say I don't mind getting older.

I'm getting older and mellower in my old age.

If it means being settled and content, getting older can be a relief.

You know what, being in my 30s is so much better than my 20s.

Your priorities change when you get older.

The good part about getting older is you stop trying to prove anything to anyone, including yourself. All you are in the pursuit of is collecting experiences - beautiful, fragile little soap bubbles that you store in your heart, and every once in a while you pull one out and gaze at the delicate pictures it shows you.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

I quite like being old.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.