Mid Life Crisis Quotes

#1. See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.

Robbie Coltrane

#2. I definitely don't think I'm going to have a mid-life crisis.

Daniel Wu

#3. It's not a mid-life crisis. It's a mid-life disaster. A mid-life crisis is when you wake up with everything and you go "I have everything but I'm still unhappy."

Tom Hanks

#4. I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.

Rob Lowe

#5. There was a time when people had the decency to wait until they were approaching 50 to have a mid-life crisis. Now it seems many thirtysomethings find themselves succumbing to existential navel-gazing.

Mark Barrowcliffe

#6. Well, you know, it's been in the back of my mind. I just cannot get it out of it. I'm miserable chasing money. I'm 30 years old going through a mid-life crisis! I just couldn't shut (it) off.

Drew Waters

#7. I'm having a mid-life crisis, so I thought instead of having sex with a stranger, I'd just get a new haircut. It's good clean fun without all the messy emotional baggage. It's just a haircut folks! It's not like I had an eye removed, or a leg added on! Live a little ... it'll grow back!

Ed Robertson

#8. I feel as if I'm going through a mid-life crisis. I don't feel very attractive and it's like I'm frigid or something. I'm aging and it makes me very sad.

Kola Boof

#9. I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

George Montgomery

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

Pamela Stephenson

#11. I ran for Congress not because I was having a mid-life crisis. I left the private sector because I saw a looming financial crisis that was coming to this country. It's unsustainable.

Steve Daines

#12. I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

Bret Easton Ellis

#13. The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.

Jay Kay

#14. The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.

Sonia Johnson

#15. When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.

Warren Farrell

#16. It's bad timing, but a lot of kids become teenagers just as their parents are hitting their mid-life crisis. So everybody's miserable and confused and seeking that new sense of identity.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#17. I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever.

Rhys Ifans

#18. Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

Keanu Reeves

#19. You can't have a mid-life crisis in the airline industry because every day is a crisis.

Herb Kelleher

#20. Screw the mid-life crisis
Go have a mid-life spa day
A mid-life quickie
A midlife tiramisu
But whatever you do
DON'T give in to mid-life blues!

Sanjo Jendayi

#21. There comes a time in one's life, perhaps in middle age, when we stop and assess who we are, and the life we have.

Fennel Hudson

#22. when true purpose calls, double mindedness, confusion and frustration come along.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#23. Heaven's harmony is universal love.

William Cowper

#24. Life itself had become disembodied. My family, the spine of my days, had crumbled. I was lost in invertebrate time.

Joseph O'Neill

#25. Evelyn stared into the empty ice cream carton and wondered where the smiling girl in the school pictures had gone.

Fannie Flagg

#26. You don't value families if you force them to take up a collection to buy body armor for a son or daughter in the service.

John F. Kerry

#27. As I approach mid-life, I feel like the old boot that lands on Mayfair after an eight-hour game of Monopoly.

Fennel Hudson

#28. We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in others, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power.

Albert Einstein

#29. The angst of adolescence is the fear the pretty Italian girls across the street will never come over. The crisis of mid-life is learning they never will.

Mark Darrah

#30. It's all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that box off, and move forward.

Sarah McLachlan

#31. Leaders do not choose, rather they respond to God choosing them. Thus, the first responsive step of leadership is of utmost importance. It is an act of rebellion against the society of the spectacle - It is to relinquish a life of many options so that you can receive God's one option.

Mark Sayers

#32. Truth is not only violated by falsehood;
it may be outraged by silence.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#33. Anomie is not a danger only for the young; it may surface in what is now conventionally called the "crisis of mid-life" or anywhere else.

Walter Brueggemann

#34. There is no "mid" about it. Life is a crisis from the cradle to the grave.

Graham Joyce

#35. You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.

George Orwell

#36. I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

Herb Alpert

#37. Everyone I meet now is at least ten years younger than me. I feel like Rip van Winkle with a bald spot.

Jaffe Cohen