Midlife Quotes

Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders change, women are in total, despotic control of their marriages. (Camille Paglia)
Some people in Hollywood think of me as a model for dramatic midlife transitions: suburban housewife to Emmy-winning actress. But I never plotted out a master plan for following my dreams. View quote
Kathryn Joosten
I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn't augur well for my longevity. View quote
David Foster Wallace
Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence. View quote
Carl Jung
You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film. View quote
Claire Danes
Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search--for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women's liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an identity crisis. View quote
Warren Farrell
Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure its a midlife vocational reassessment. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, midlife for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter miler, who's son now says, Dad, I just can't run the quarter with you anymore unless I bring something to read. View quote
Bill Cosby
I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back to biking. The moment it feels like a rut, I switch and search for a new love. It's like having a midlife crisis, but without the new wife or cheesy BMW. View quote
Brad Meltzer
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. View quote
Jane Brody
Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up. (Jill Lepore)
It's kind of like a midlife crisis kind of thing. When you turn 40, you have to run the marathon, while all the parts still work properly. View quote
Joe Bastianich
I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record. View quote
Mika
My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s. View quote
Edward Norton
My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships. View quote
Bill Murray
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. View quote
Marianne Williamson
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. View quote
Harry Connick
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. View quote
Richard Rohr
I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please. View quote
Jane Fonda
We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude. (Jane Fonda)
Midlife: when the Universe grabs your shoulders and tells you "I'm not f-ing around, use the gifts you were given. View quote
Brené Brown
After midlife, one falls back on C G Jung and determines that the first years of life were in themselves symbolic. To learn a profession (calling) doesn't mean that you are called. To obtain money doesn't mean that you are rich. To marry doesn't mean that you have learned to love. To build a house doesn't mean that you are at home. All the things you did until you turned forty confront you again after midlife as a task, but this time inwardly. View quote
Eugen Drewermann
In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgrown, and some of the wildest thickets that surround it grow out of what we describe as our education. But the channel is always there, and it is our business to keep it open, to have access to the deepest part of ourselves. View quote
Saul Bellow
It had to begin somewhere-maturity, the stage after the midlife crisis, peace. It had to begin somewhere. View quote
Robert J. Sawyer