Quotes of: Midlife Keyword

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

Edward Norton

When faced with first time fatherhood at the age of 49, I didn’t know whether to celebrate with champagne… or hemlock.

PRIME TIME DADS: 45 Reasons to Embrace Midlife Fatherhood

During my completely soul-shredding midlife crisis at the age of twenty-eight, I felt sure I had peaked too soon.

Write like no one is reading

I was inspired to write (Life Continues) to tell people dealing with MS or any other illness that if opening your eyes, or getting out of bed, or holding a spoon, or combing your hair is the daunting Mount Everest you climb today, that is okay.

Life Continues: Facing the Challenges of MS, Menopause & Midlife with Hope, Courage & Humor

In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.

P. J. O'Rourke

I don't like the term mid-life crisis.

Pamela Stephenson

The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.

Sonia Johnson

You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.

Harry Connick, Jr.

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

Claire Danes

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

Mika

Fear of our own depths is the enemy.

The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife

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

I got an 'A' in Business Marketing in college!- as if that means a goddamn thing in the real world...

Mid-Life Love

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

C.G. Jung

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.

Bill Murray

Some people in Hollywood think of me as a model for dramatic midlife transitions: suburban housewife to Emmy-winning actress. But I never plotted a master plan for following my dreams.

Kathryn Joosten

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.

Joe Bastianich

The goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego.

The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife

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.

Mariella Frostrup

Our mothers were largely silent about what happened to them as they passed through this midlife change. But a new generation of women has already started to break the wall of silence.

Trisha Posner