82 Quotes About Middle-age

You know what it's like, finding eight middle-aged guys having tantric sex with ostriches?

No matter how you tell yourselfIt's what we all go throughThose lines are pretty hard to takeWhen they're staring back at youOh, scared you'll run out of timeWhen did the choices get so hardWith so much more at stakeLife gets mighty preciousWhen there's less of it to waste

It was easy, terribly easy, to become with time a middle-aged spinster with a sharp tongue. She would have to guard against this.

What a relief to find, in middle age, that there are still interests waiting inside of you to be discovered...

Spend the second half of our lives working less about what we do and more about who we become.

Men pursue younger women for sport all the time—whenever they start feeling a little insecure. But when a woman does it, it’s another thing altogether.

Eve still marveled on a daily basis at the speed with which her own life had changed. A year ago, she'd been lost and flailing, and now she was found. She wanted to call it a miracle, but it was simpler than that, and a lot more ordinary; she'd met a kind and decent man who loved her.

We're not pessimists, exactly, but in late middle age, when you envision your life ten years down the line, you're more likely to see a bedpan than a Tony Award.

From what Natalie could observe, by middle age, every person's life had rolled some distance downhill, even if it was a very gentle slope, coming to rest at a place of disappointment. Some spheres of an individual's life might have gone spectacularly well but there would always be an obstinate slab of disappointment in another department - a stalled career, inability to have kids, a dismal marriage, whatever.