Quotes About Midlife

I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.

The age of 40 is not a death sentence.

Reaching 50, I've started to conjure up thoughts of my own mortality.

Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.

We in middle age require adventure.

Fear comes with middle age.

I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.

Pushing fifty is exercise enough.

He shuffled into middle-age silently and without protest.

I have lunches with my girlfriends, who just turned 40, and some of those lunches, we're crying and screaming about our husbands, saying we want to leave them and run away. And then, other lunches, we're fine and love our husbands and are happy with our lives.

Heaven in its mercy says when a woman is forty, 'Now, poor soul and body, the rest of your life you shall have for yourself. You have divided yourself again and again, and now take what is left and make yourself whole again

interestingly, after age forty, men become the more dominant selfie posters—perhaps in midlife, women unconsciously render themselves invisible).

Tiene que ver con llegar a los treinta años, o incluso a los cincuenta, sin querer pegarte un tiro en la cabeza.

En la mitad del camino de mi vida me encontré en una selva oscura... Y algo peor aún: aquella selva era verde.

I think turning fifty means you want to keep everything you already have, but you also want everything you haven't managed to get yet, too. Before it's too late.

about six months ago, after my fortieth, I started to feel so...the only word I can think of is 'bland.' Or 'flat' might be a better word.

She tries to claw back the stolen half-hour, but her adrenaline is pumping again; her husband went somewhere last night and has woken up in his friend's flat and doesn't know what happened in between. Her husband, who has a career and a mortgage and two children to think about. Her husband, who is forty-five.

Semiotic was the form Zipperstein`s midlife crisis had taken... Instead of buying sports car, he'd bought deconstrution.

If you're in the midst of a midlife crisis, you could buy a convertible, have an affair, or upgrade your cup size. But you'll probably be happiest if you save a dog's life.

I want to reframe the midlife crisis, making it into the midlife opportunity.

Mason was leaving her for a fifty-four-year-old woman who didn't moisturize

I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.

At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore.

I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.