Arundhati Roy Quotes

I think maybe we die every day. Maybe we're born new each dawn, a little changed, a little further on our own road. When enough days stand between you and the person you were, you're strangers. Maybe that's what growing up is. Maybe I have grown up.

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.

I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

You never begin a new life. It's a mistake to think that you end one part of your life and start another as if there's no continuity.

A home is a place in time. And no place stays the same after you finally grow up and leave it. No place can ever change as much as the person who grows up there.

You cannot have the same kind of character again and again in every season or every stage of your life. You change, people change.

I'm not the same young man I was when I first got into music.

A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.

I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added more things to my list.

Change, like youth, is purely wasted on the young.

That's what just hit me: How you really can't have everything. You have to give up the old to get the new. You can't be the child and the mom at the same time. You can't be your young self and your old self at the same time. You can't know what you know now and feel the way you did then. You can't, you can't, you can't.

None of us are what we once were.

Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.

We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.

Self-knowledge is not the knowledge of a dead self, self-knowledge is the knowledge of the process of the self. It is an alive phenomenon. The self is not a thing, it is an event, it is a process. Never think in terms of things, the self is not there inside you just like a thing waiting in your room. The self is a process: changing, moving, arriving at new altitudes, moving into new planes, going deeper into new depths. Each moment much work is going on and the only way to encounter this self is to encounter it in relationship.

Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.

Everything changes and, somewhere along the line, I'm changing with it.

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

Some age, others mature.

I don't look the same as I did 20 years ago, nor should I.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.