MidLife Crisis Quotes

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
George Orson Welles

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

Mid life, a time to simplify your life and enjoy living!
Catherine Pulsifer

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of somene else.
Ogden Nash

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
Agatha Christie, An Autobiography

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.
Jane E. Brody

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, burried at 60.'
Nicholas Murray Butler

Years ago we discovered the exact point the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Franklin Pierce Adams

There is a marked increase in the death rate between the ages of 35 to 40 for employed men, apparently as a result of this 'midlife crisis'.
Gail Sheehy

- The worst thing about a mid life crisis ?
- You are only half way through all the shit that life's gonna throw at you.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time catches up with Mother Nature.
Harold Coffin

Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire.
Joseph Addison

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
Helen Hayes

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
Daniel Defoe

Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life. But of course, like autumn, it doesn't last.
C.S. Lewis