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
If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially constructed by the time childhood is over, but as always… — Erik Erikson 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
“I tell you, life is extraordinary. A few years ago I couldn’t write anything or sell anything, I’d passed the age where… — Helene Hanff 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
“Now Janie ordered a drink and glanced at the bar menu, choosing the goat curry because she'd never had it before. "You… — Sharon Guskin Copy Share Image
“The very old can tell you about peace. They have fought through the black, sinking, visceral knowledge of death–their own death–that heralds… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
“Isn't it enough to be middle-aged and impeccably beautiful? Why must one be economically useful?” — Pietros Maneos Copy Share Image
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. — Doris Day Copy Share Image
“...waking at very early dawn amid all that sweat and stink, he had found himself comparing this ghastly journey with his own… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
“But what was so great about marriage? I had been married and married. It had its good points, but it also had… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The worst thing about this particular end (of my youth) and the beginning (of middle age) is that for the first time… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
“When you reach your middle age, you see a train far away and shortly after you watch that train passing rapidly in… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
I have a feeling there is no ideal situation, unless she could go back in time and be 22 again. I think… — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
“This is a central point of this book—we don’t hate violence. We hate and fear the wrong kind of violence, violence in… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.” — Núria Añó 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
At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage. — John Andrew Holmes Copy Share Image
“I sensed he may have occasionally strayed in some of his past relationships. It was something I felt but ignored, a rent… — Suzanne Finnamore Copy Share Image
