Quotes About Midlife Crisis

#1. Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search
for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women's liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an identity crisis.

Warren Farrell

#2. Semiotic was the form Zipperstein's midlife crisis had taken... Instead of buying sports car, he'd bought deconstrution.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#3. You really must stop acting
Like a 20-year-old, gold plated
In a midlife crisis
You just graduated
Happy 60th

John Walter Bratton

#4. Could I be having a midlife crisis? Ahead of schedule. God, I'd just turned thirty-four. How batty would I be by fourty?

Noreen Wald

#5. I'm 51. So I'm just saying, 30 years from now you're going to have a different outlook. That's what a midlife crisis is.

Kelly Reichardt

#6. Are you having a midlife crisis?"

"You'll be having an end of life crisis if you say that again," he threatened.

Nicole Castle

#7. You look like you're having a midlife crisis."
"It's not a midlife crisis. It's just a life crisis.

Alice Oseman

#8. If you're in the midst of a midlife crisis, you could buy a convertible, have an affair, or upgrade your cup size. But you'll probably be happiest if you save a dog's life.

Jen Lancaster

#9. I don't believe the United States is going through a midlife crisis. The United States is going through an adolescent crisis.

Marianne Williamson

#10. Was he hitting some type of werewolf midlife crisis? First, he'd left Wolf Town, and now he was envisioning a mate. What next? Bird watching? Board games? Retirement homes?

Rose Wynters

#11. Havin lunch and debatin Ferrari prices. 23 and goin through a midlife crisis.

Drake

#12. A man in the midst of a midlife crisis is an abomination on society. [This is my own quote. And it's true.]

Ross Bonander

#13. My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.

Edward Norton

#14. My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#15. Men are much simpler mechanisms than women. Nothing changes them ... even when they have a midlife crisis, they do it in a mindless way ... that's why I think we should let men go off and have affairs and drive fast cars and dream of being virile - and we should run the world.

Goldie Hawn

#16. You know that you have officially HIT at total midlife crisis when you get acne on your wrinkles.

Tanya Masse

#17. If you live your life all out today, not only is it fun, but you are preventing a midlife crisis.

Daphne Oz

#18. I've known plenty of couples who choose to ignore budding problems or dissatisfactions because it's easier in the moment. But too much of that for long enough, and you all of a sudden have a huge problem on your hands, or a midlife crisis, or a broken marriage.

Fawn Weaver

#19. Are you having a midlife crisis?" Miriam asked.
"I'm eighteen."
"I know. But you've always been advanced.

J.C. Geiger

#20. There is some debate in professional circles about whether the so-called "midlife crisis" exists.

James Hollis

#21. You know you've officially hit a midlife crisis when you finally start feeling like you have your life together and your body starts falling apart!

Tanya Masse

#22. The midlife crisis you're having at 30 is indulgent, but the midlife crisis you have at 45 is to an extent thrust upon you.

Moby

#23. People who aren't addicts want to know why I became one. They ask whether I had a midlife crisis. I'm only speaking for myself now, but I've stopped asking why and how. It's all about surrender and acceptance. It doesn't matter why I am an addict.

Kevin Sessums

#24. I've been having a midlife crisis since I was four years old.

Moby

#25. Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

David Bowie

#26. The Hollywood Foreign Press have just given me a time out from my 20-year midlife crisis. My heartfelt thanks to them.

Colin Firth

#27. Most men bought a flashy sports car, had an affair or hooked up with a girl barely out of school in their midlife crisis. Apparently he did bizarre things like fall in love and throw away a multimillion-dollar deal.

Maya Banks

#28. During my completely soul-shredding midlife crisis at the age of twenty-eight, I felt sure I had peaked too soon.

Jennifer Harrison

#29. I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back to biking. The moment it feels like a rut, I switch and search for a new love. It's like having a midlife crisis, but without the new wife or cheesy BMW.

Brad Meltzer

#30. what was rational about a midlife crisis? Weren't they always a little absurd? They were beginning the next phase of their lives together. She was not afraid of it. Let it come, she thought. He'll be in good hands.

Matthew Thomas

#31. Ever heard of the phrase 'midlife crisis'?

Janet Maslin

#32. I'm in politics to change things - if possible, for the better. I was a journalist for a long time, but I had a kind of midlife crisis, and I decided I needed to do something to get on the pitch and stop endlessly kicking over other peoples' sandcastles.

Boris Johnson

#33. Midlife crisis, it turns out, is much less about a loss of flesh and far more about a loss of innocence, the stripping-away of the illusion of choice and order.

Steve Ochs

#34. I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.

Mika.

#35. Udden attack of culture snobbery is a common affliction among policemen of a certain rank and age; it's like a normal midlife crisis only with more chandeliers and foreign languages.

Ben Aaronovitch

#36. Are you turning into a cougar? Is this some sort of midlife crisis I need to be concerned about?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#37. Perhaps this is the solution to medicine's midlife crisis, too: doctors focusing on their noble craft, their relationships with patients, the stuff over which we have some control. Ultimately, this may be the best hope for our professional salvation.

Sandeep Jauhar

#38. Hollywood actresses age in dog years. I'm 25 in the rest of the world, but I'm about 48 in actress years. I'm just around the corner from my midlife crisis.

Amber Heard

#39. I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.

Bill Murray

#40. Forget the midlife crisis," I say. "It's all about the sixth-life crisis.

Ned Vizzini

#41. I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn't augur well for my longevity

David Foster Wallace

#42. With improved coping skills forged through my midlife crisis, I now listen first and do not control, and I allow these now adult children to come to their own conclusions about what they want for their lives.

David W. Earle

#43. Don't waste time worrying about work/life balance, or looking for your best self, sham "secrets" or any other snake oil being pushed by sloppy hippies who have never built a business, let alone a bankroll, or you will wake up 20 years from now poor, pissed off and primed for a midlife crisis.

Ari Gold

#44. 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 Brody

#45. On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it might be more interesting to actually terrify them by going completely mad and declaring myself to be a magician.

Alan Moore

#46. It's kind of like a midlife crisis kind of thing. When you turn 40, you have to run the marathon, while all the parts still work properly.

Joe Bastianich

#47. You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

Claire Danes

#48. Adam and Eve had their midlife Crisis when they realized that they were older than sin!

Jonathan Edward Caldwell

#49. Midlife crisis begins sometime in your 40s, when you look at your life and think, 'Is this all?' And it ends about 10 years later, when you look at your life again and think, 'Actually, this is pretty good.'

Donald Richie

#50. Don't you wear glasses, George?" "Not anymore. I had my eyes lasered." Can you say midlife crisis? Radial keratotomy is the new red Porsche.

Lisa Scottoline

#51. Her mother waved a card at her in farewell. "Bye. Will you be home for dinner? I'm making midlife crisis." "Oh," Blue said, "I guess I'll have a slice. If you're making it already.

Maggie Stiefvater

#52. MIDLIFE is that pivotal moment when you can FINALLY say that you basically have all your shit together and then your body starts falling apart!

Tanya Masse

#53. I don't know anything anymore. Is that normal? Is it normal to notice the enormity of everything and just go blank?

A.M. Homes

#54. It dawned on him gradually that he had entered middle-age without ever being young, and that he was, in the nicest possible way, "on the shelf".

John Le Carre

#55. Middle age is not the beginning of decline, but a time to reach for the highest in our selves. Middle age is a pause to re-examine what we have done and what we will do in the future. This is the time to give birth to our power.

Frank Natale

#56. You are trapped by nothing more than a poor attitude

Sid Mittra

#57. The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.

Allen Wheelis

#58. 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

#59. Bad things happen in life, but we must learn to deal with them and move on

Sid Mittra

#60. Suicide solves midlife crises.

Brian Spellman

#61. Even if you do not want to, One day
you will look back through your
life ... the Question is, what are you
going to see? How will your rate and
direction of progress make you feel?

Moffat Machingura

#62. Have interesting failures ... If you need to have a personal crisis have it now. Don't wait until midlife, when it will take longer to resolve ... Don't pity yourselves. Lighten up. Seek people with a sense of humor. Avoid humorless people-and do not marry one, for God's sake.

Garrison Keillor

#63. To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging; men buy fast cars.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#64. Change is superficial. Transformation is deep. It alters our perception of reality and therefore causes everything in our life to shift. Transformation is what happens when we live our life rather than analyze it.

Frank Natale

#65. Thinking of only the worse of yourself will eventually destroy you

Sid Mittra

#66. If you wish to succeed, you must believe in yourself and look at everything positively

Sid Mittra

#67. Simply thinking creatively is not the same as being innovative, and only those who risk breaking out of their comfort zone by putting thought into action will discover the profusion of opportunity that exists.

Michael Lum