Midlife Crisis Quotes

• 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

  Thinking, Years, Looks

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• 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

  Mind, Watches, Midlife

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

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Years, Acting

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• 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

  Thinking, Careers, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Midlife, Crisis, Thrust

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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

  Daphne Oz

  Fun, Live Your Life, Midlife

  Interview with Rachel Goldstien, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Funny, Strong, Guy

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• I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity

  David Foster Wallace

  Twenties, Midlife, Kind

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will”, p.14, Columbia University Press

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• 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

  Mad, Interesting, Midlife

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• My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.

  Edward Norton

  Generations, Midlife, Crisis

  "'Fight Club': It 'Just sort of clicked'" by Michael Sragow, www.cnn.com. October 19, 1999.

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• 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

  Years, Different, Midlife

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'd say imagine that you wake up one morning when you're going through a midlife crisis. You're getting divorced. Your kids won't speak to you. Their faces are covered with acne, and you have to decide why you should get out of bed. That's the career you should pick. The one that keeps you going no matter what, even if your life is falling apart. That's how I feel about my career.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Morning, Fall, Kids

  "Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The “The African Americans” Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com. October 15, 2013.

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

  Mika

  Records, Midlife, Crisis

  "The Nowhere Boy: Mika Finds Confidence in Coming Out". Interview with Zack Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2013.

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• 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

  Acceptance, Asking Why, People

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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

  Claire Danes

  Years, Midlife, Film

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• 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

  Running, Midlife, Marathon

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• Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis.

  Tim Cahill

  Dream, Jobs, Responsibility

  Tim Cahill (1987). “Jaguars ripped my flesh: adventure is a risky business”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• Ever heard of the phrase 'midlife crisis'?

  Janet Maslin

  Phrases, Midlife, Crisis

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

  Moby

  Years, Midlife, Four

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• 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

  Dream, Running, Men

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Thinking, Careers, People

  "Lucky me" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2009.

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• There is some debate in professional circles about whether the so-called “midlife crisis” exists.

  James Hollis

  Circles, Midlife, Debate

  James Hollis (2005). “Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up”, p.29, Penguin

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• 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

  Moving, Yoga, Two

  "Workouts inspire novelist: 'No better place to plot the death of a character'". Interview with David Raterman, www.sun-sentinel.com. February 11, 2013.

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• 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

  Identity, Males, Midlife

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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

  Drake

  Life, Humble, Lunch

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