Quotes About Midlife

He was thirty-eight years old, and he was ready to change his life.

If you mess around with your mates, you get into rough and tumble then you remember you're in your mid-40s and you can't land the way you used to, so it's great fun.

When I turned 50, something clicked in my head and I said, 'I'm not going to live to 100. I'm half-cooked already.' I set the family down and I said, 'Listen everybody, we're now entering the decade of Daddy. We're going to start doing things that I want to do.'

The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person.

But I was ready for it and I knew I could do it. I've just turned 40, I have a son and I feel more settled and driven than ever. I think my 40s will be my most prolific time. It's a very rare life you get to lead as a sitcom guy.

I hated turning 40; the whole idea of it stank. But once I got through it, I was fine.

I feel a bit weird about turning 40. It makes you feel like you've passed over on to the other side a bit.

When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.

I'm sure there's a subconscious 'go for it' thing with turning 50. You want to do as much as possible and there are thoughts of how little time we have on the planet. For a lot of musicians in their 50s, the best days are behind them. I'd like to try and show that there is a future.

I started turning 40 at 38. I had pains all over my body. I couldn't sleep, I had rampant anxiety, and I couldn't stop eating and drinking.

It was great for me to go through all of my crazy Ferraris in my twenties. I think it was an inoculation against any kind of a midlife crisis.

It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.

How to distinguish the general noise of the midlife or aging body from meaningful signals that portend danger? In difficult-to-obtain books published primarily by small presses or self-published, the testimonies of women underscore the need for an early detection tool, given the vagaries of symptoms

People who are more isolated than they want to be from others find that they are less happy, their health declines earlier in midlife, their brain functioning declines sooner, and they live shorter lives than people who are not lonely.

El período entre los cuarenta y los cincuenta es, por regla general, el más fructífero. Las personas no deberían acercarse a esta edad con miedo y temblorosas, sino con esperanza y una ansiosa expectación.

There must be times when people look in the mirror and they realize they're 60.

You never think about your own mortality. At least not until your back gives way when you're 40.

At 45, 2 years after the birth of his last child, he started running again.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Age 39. — It's weird, when you're 39 it starts to happen...

Age 41. — I am forty-one years of age, and I feel myself begin to change, and to lose my health, natural spirits and strength.

Late 50s. — ...on the shady side of fifty...

I must not fall asleep in the middle of my life.

At midlife, I think a woman has more in common with her teenage children than anybody else. We all are kind of uncertain. We realize for the first time in either our lives or decades that we're in charge now.