Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive. — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly. — Candice Bergen Copy Share Image
The women cry, Come, my fox, heal me. I am chalk white with middle age so wear me threadbare… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do. — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“Ten years ago he would have followed her, but middle-age is the period of sad caution.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Man has reached middle age if he can't repeat his follies with impunity; woman, with grace. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The really frightening thing about being middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. — Doris Day Copy Share Image
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
When you approach middle age, lots of stuff happens. Your body is aging, you're watching people around you get sick, you're watching… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
Instead of facing a crisis as I approached middle age, I discovered that a new and better life lay before me. I… — Bob Buford Copy Share Image
I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
My mother had demonstrated that the best way to defeat the numbing ambivalence of middle age is to surprise yourself - by… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
“Eve still marveled on a daily basis at the speed with which her own life had changed. A year ago, she'd been… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
'Housewives' has shone a light on women of middle age, that you're not out of the game, you're not old, you're not… — Erika Jayne Copy Share Image
“He was blown, his agents were hanged, and he entered the long middle age of the grounded pro. He did hackwork in… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“We all have a central fiction about ourselves, a favored delusion about talent or untapped potential. Most of us hang on to… — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“the translator says that a sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I grew up in the South, and our way of dealing with each other was teasing, ribbing, making fun and scrapping in… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“To pore over the literary shortcomings of twenty years ago, to attempt to patch a faulty work into the perfection it missed… — Huxley, Aldous Copy Share Image
I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“Then, as we grow older and enter middle age, something else begins to change. Our energy level drops. Our identity solidifies. We… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“My dear Mrs. Ali, I would hardly refer to you as old," he said. "You are in what I would call the… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
“To say that the frozen silence contracted itself into a yet higher globe of ice were to under-rate the exquisite tension and… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“In the first ages they were wise men; in the middle age, madmen; in these latter ages, cunning men: in the earliest… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“For Nature, if she once endows man or woman with romance, gives them so rich a store of it as shall last… — John Meade Falkner Copy Share Image
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
