Quotes About Midlife

I was just going at this career - boom, boom, boom! Then all of a sudden, at 38, Oh, my God - I forgot to get married!

If you allow yourself to deepen with midlife, your experience of everything deepens, including your experience of God.

When my pop career was over, I was scratching my head, thinking, "God, how am I going to do something after I'm forty?" I was in my mid-thirties, thinking I was on the scrap heap.

I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God.

Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s, 60s and 70s, with health being a major factor.

I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor.

Was he hitting some type of werewolf midlife crisis? First, he'd left Wolf Town, and now he was envisioning a mate. What next? Bird watching? Board games? Retirement homes?

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.

Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s, 60s and 70s, with health being a major factor.

You're middle-aged, Daddy. What are you going to do with the second half of your life? Because, I'm telling you now, if you run through all of your money before you're eighty, don't come looking to me for a handout 'cuz I'll just put you in an old folks' home and go party.

But now that I'm approaching my mid-forties and have a child, I realise more than ever that I need to look after myself. I like to keep fit and enjoy swimming and cycling.

Loneliness and rootlessness are just symptoms of an insecurity that assails us all when hitting this midlife moment. The world appears intent on blanking you out.

I'm only thirty-seven, he thought; is this when old age begins?

If you're wearing Reebok classics, then you're going through a midlife crisis. I don't want to catch you wearing these in the rave.

I had been playing polo, and I decided to give up at the age of 50.

I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.

There was a time in my 40s where I thought, oh, it's all over - not just work, but I'm never going to feel young again, I'm always going to feel like I know what's going to happen, I'll know what to expect. Looking back I don't know if that was a midlife crisis, I don't know - but I don't feel that now. There's possibilities. It gets better.

I don't know about everyone else, but I felt like the day I turned 40, I could no longer read the dinner menu without glasses, my knees started to betray me, and I can gain 10 pounds just by driving past a McDonalds!

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.

Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.

Now he was fifty-six and the thought of getting to know a woman all over again filled him with a panic-stricken desolation.

Not enough has been written about the treachery of middle life," the old man mused, his voice carrying over the wind. "Dante went to hell to escape it, and I've seen plenty of other men do the same, metaphorically speaking. Be patient, Dexter. Wars have a way of shifting the terrain into configurations we can't foresee, hard as we might try. This is no time for bold moves.

Show me a man of fifty who doesn't regret the lives he hasn't lived.