Quotes About Midlife

The goal is for your mid-life crisis to turn into a mid-life discovery.

I'm as prone to 'declinism' as the next over-mortgaged middle-aged guy.

In my case, when it arrived at 49, perimenopause was terrifying and like nothing I had ever before physically experienced.

Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.

Midlife is the perfect time to embrace your inner passions and let it drive you to do your own thing.

Midlife is the time when we become most capable of managing the ambiguities and polarities of life. We come to terms with the fact that the world doesn't always make send and usually can't be controlled.

A spiritual perspective at midlife helps us to focus on what's really important in terms of feeling more connected to the world in a meaningful purposeful way.

Midlife is not the end of anything, but in fact the beginning of a whole new phase you can look forward to.

Just as adolescents transition into adults by discovering who they want to be, at midlife we find ourselves searching to become a more authentic, better version of ourselves.

Don't you wear glasses, George?" "Not anymore. I had my eyes lasered." Can you say midlife crisis? Radial keratotomy is the new red Porsche.

Observing others go through them, he used to admire midlife crises, the courage and shamelessness and existential daring of them, but after he'd watched his own wife, a respectable nursery school teacher, produce and star in a full-blown one of her own, he found the sufferers of such crises not only self-indulgent but greedy and demented, and he wished them all weird unnatural deaths with various contraptions easily found in garages.

His wife was beside him, buried in pillows. He was fifty-one and would be a new father again by the end of the year. This morning, woken by the wind, he had put his thumb to each fingertip, counting decades.

Life begins at age forty.

I didn't start jogging or running until I was 37 years old. It was something that really helped me change my life.

The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. (on being 36 yrs old)

Midlife is a time of explosive change, particularly for women. It's just like experiencing another puberty. The changes that take place in your body are enormous and, like puberty, you have to throw off the past.

I had fame and wealth and things that are supposed to make you happy, but I wasn't happy, because there's no importance on having a fulfilling life. So in my mid-40s, that was my pursuit - making films that interested me, films that I would like to go see.

There was a point in my 40s when I went into the bathroom with a bottle of wine, locked the door, and said, 'I'm not coming out until I can totally accept the way that I look right now.'

I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.

Was he testing to see how elastic love could be? Was he simply a man who had gladly given his youth to a man in midlife, and now nearing midlife himself, wanted back the fortune he squandered.

But then in your thirties something strange starts to happen. It's a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm—you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you're not. You're thirty-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it.

Havin lunch and debatin Ferrari prices. 23 and goin through a midlife crisis.

You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.

it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.