Midlife Quotes

Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are.

I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.

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.

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it might be more interesting to actually terrify them by going completely mad and declaring myself to be a magician.

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.

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.

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

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.

I'm 51. So I'm just saying, 30 years from now you're going to have a different outlook. That's what a midlife crisis is.

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

Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.

The midlife crisis you're having at 30 is indulgent, but the midlife crisis you have at 45 is to an extent thrust upon you.

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.

My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.

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.

I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity

I've been having a midlife crisis since I was four years old.

There is some debate in professional circles about whether the so-called “midlife crisis” exists.

I don't believe the United States is going through a midlife crisis. The United States is going through an adolescent crisis.

At midlife, you're pregnant with the best self you can be - someone who has learned enough from both successes and failures to add up to a fine human being.

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

Midlife is not the time to disenchant ourselves. It's a time to turn on all our magic in full force.

Adam and Eve had their midlife Crisis when they realized that they were older than sin!

Ever heard of the phrase 'midlife crisis'?