82 Quotes About Middle-age

You can live doing what you love or die having done nothing at all.

...it's amazing what passing the half-century mark does to free one to be eccentric.

It's that in between timeNothing really growingAnd nothing really dying

Dorian runs a hand through his still sticky graying hair, feeling too old for all of these marvels; and wondering when he went from young and faithful and obedient to confused and adrift and middle aged. But he knows exactly when it was because that moment haunts him still.

Here is what happens in middle age: Some friends and acquaintances who were merely eccentric for years become unmistakably mad.

Though Jonah felt transfixed inside his own childhood, no one else saw him as a child. He was already over the hump of middle age, heading rapidly toward those year that no one like to speak of. The best parts had already passed for people Jonah's age. By now you were meant to have become what you would finally be, and to gracefully and unobtrusively stay in that state for the rest of your life.

When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren't that wrong. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young erode. We end up all belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself.

You’re young, and like anything new. It’s change you want. I’m middle-aged, and there’s nothing staler to me than change. Constant comfort and little luxuries as regular as the clock are fresher than change.

Do something very praiseworthy in your youth or in your middle age so that you can spend all your time talking about it in your old age!