82 Quotes About Middle-age

When you reach your middle age, you see a train far away and shortly after you watch that train passing rapidly in front of you and finally the train disappears in the horizon like a streak of lightning! And that train, my dear friend, is your life!

whenever a single woman over 40 brings up the topic of love, again and again the assumption, rooted in sexist thinking, is that she is 'desperate' for a man. No one thinks she is simply passionately intellectually interested in the subject matter. No one thinks she is rigorously engaged in a philosophical undertaking wherein she is endeavoring to understand the metaphysical meaning of love in everyday life. No, she is just seen as on the road to 'fatal attraction.

People narrow to their choices said the other woman. That's not the same as changing.

As far as I’m concerned, the only thing sweeter than seeing a friend is that friend canceling on me.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

The young have aspirations that never comes to pass,the old have reminiscences of what never happened. It's only the middle-aged who are really conscious of their limitations - that is why one should be patient with them. But one never is.

Isn't it enough to be middle-aged and impeccably beautiful? Why must one be economically useful?

I’ve changed a lot since 1969, and so has the world; I’m more benign, the world is far bleaker, and the people in Love would now be edging nervously up to the middle age they thought could never happen, they thought the world would end first.

Maybe marriages are best in middle age. When all the nonsense falls away and you realize you have to love one another because you're going to die anyway.