Maye Musk Quotes

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

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.

As you get older, you come to a place in life where you can't just live in the present.

It's only through aging and going through heartbreak and loss and successes and failures that you can look back and look at the mistakes some young people make.

Deeper things, heavier things happen to you as you get older and makes you more open.

When I was younger, I took life much more seriously.

Because of how much I've gone through, I want to say I'm more wise than my age.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

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

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

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.

The more you've lived, the more you've experienced, you emotionally know a lot more, especially if you haven't had a regular, straightforward kind of life.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

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

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.

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.

In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons.

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