Quotes About Midlife

When Sleeping Beauty wakes upshe is almost fifty years old.Time to start planning her retirement cottage.

People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness.

I thought you said you were okay with turning forty.

Like many men his age, he occupied a kind of limbo, not young enough to be the new face in the bars that everyone wanted and not old enough to be – and didn't want to be – the funny old queen whose jokes everyone laughed at. Instead, he was just middle aged and alone.

Life begins at fifty, that's true, inasmuch as it ends at forty.

La vida empieza a los cincuenta años, es cierto; con la salvedad de que termina a los cuarenta.

When I'm 33, I quit.

If you haven't got your life sorted at forty, no one, not even your own mum, is going to hand you a medal and say well done.

He was forty-two, after all. This was just the age when men went off the rails, drank and bought motorbikes and had affairs, trying to be young again. But he didn't want a motorbike and he didn't want an affair. He didn't want to be young again. All that awkwardness and pain, that sense of being in the wrong life.

I'm only forty-two—the age at which service just seriously begins.

Could I be having a midlife crisis? Ahead of schedule. God, I'd just turned thirty-four. How batty would I be by fourty?

female friends over the age of forty who have left their boring husbands in search of some excitement.

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

Midlife doesn't introduce you to a new you; it forces you to admit who you have been all along.

the struggle of midlife is fundamentally rooted in the idolatries of the heart.

The grief of midlife is not simply that we all collect things to regret, that we all fear getting old, or that we all mourn the demise of our dreams. We mourn the fact that midlife exposes our idols' fundamental inability to deliver.