... in the youth of middle age--square-shouldered, stocky…

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

— John Quincy Adams

Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“Senescence begins And middle-age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends”

— Ogden Nash

“In good truth he had started in London with some vague idea that as his life in it would not be of long continuance,…

— Charlotte Riddell

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

— Sydney J. Harris

After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.

— Mason Cooley

“It's that in between time Nothing really growing And nothing really dying”

— Richard L. Ratliff

“When a man gets to middle age shouldn’t he look for a peaceful and stable existence, find a not-too-demanding sort of a job, stay…

— Gao Xingjian

“Marriage can be made to work if both the partners can see beyond themselves and understand the limitations,needs and abilities of the other person…

— Chitralekha Paul

What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the…

— Rohinton Mistry

“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so…

— Daphne du Maurier

“No matter how you tell yourself It's what we all go through Those lines are pretty hard to take When they're staring back at…

— Bonnie Raitt

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I…

— Julie Burchill

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. -…

— Anne Tyler

The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men…

— Willa Cather