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title: "32 Middle Life Quotes by 31 authors"
description: "Browse 32 Middle Life quotes by 31 authors. Discover the best Middle Life sayings and thoughts."
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> [The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-oliphant/the-middle-of-life-is-the-testing-ground-of-character-and-strength/)

[Margaret Oliphant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-oliphant/)

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> [“How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/audre-lorde/how-hard-it-is-to-sleep-in-the-middle-of-life/)

[Audre Lorde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/audre-lorde/)

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> [You die in the middle of your life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/you-die-in-the-middle-of-your-life/)

[John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/)

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> [It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-roberts-rinehart/it-s-the-safety-valve-of-middle-life-and-the-solace-of-age/)

[Mary Roberts Rinehart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-roberts-rinehart/)

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> [I see a lot of people who change careers in the middle of their life and they think it's a good idea…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-ripert/i-see-a-lot-of-people-who-change-careers-in-the-middle-of-their-life/)

[Eric Ripert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-ripert/)

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> [Im just a little bit caught in the middle. Life is a maze and love is a riddle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lenka/im-just-a-little-bit-caught-in-the-middle-life-is-a-maze-and-love-is/)

[Lenka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lenka/)

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> [Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-huxley/of-the-few-innocent-pleasures-left-to-men-past-middle-life-the/)

[Thomas Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-huxley/)

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> [But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-benson/but-none-of-us-wants-to-be-average-that-we-are-so-is-a-melancholy/)

[Margaret Benson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-benson/)

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> [“When you are near the middle of your life, often God will do outrageous things to knock you back on course.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shannon-l-alder/when-you-are-near-the-middle-of-your-life-often-god-will-do/)

[Shannon L. Alder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shannon-l-alder/)

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> [I think you start in middle life to recognize your vulnerabilities, if you're lucky. You admit them and people find that interesting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nigel-hawthorne/i-think-you-start-in-middle-life-to-recognize-your-vulnerabilities-if/)

[Nigel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nigel-hawthorne/)

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> [There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/there-s-always-the-chance-you-could-die-right-in-the-middle-of-your/)

[Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/)

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> [“Fifteen years old is the middle of my life, regardless of when I die.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douard-lev/fifteen-years-old-is-the-middle-of-my-life-regardless-of-when-i-die/)

[Édouard Levé](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douard-lev/)

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> [In the middle of life, death comes to take your measurements. The visit is forgotten and life goes on. But the suit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tomas-transtromer/in-the-middle-of-life-death-comes-to-take-your-measurements-the-visit/)

[Tomas Transtromer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tomas-transtromer/)

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> [I began writing 'The Cold Song' in the months following my father's death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linn-ullmann/i-began-writing-the-cold-song-in-the-months-following-my-father-s/)

[Linn Ullmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linn-ullmann/)

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> [Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-helen-spence/probably-my-mother-s-life-was-prolonged-beyond-that-of-a-long-lived/)

[Catherine Helen Spence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-helen-spence/)

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> [That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/that-s-part-of-what-i-like-about-the-book-in-some-ways-it-portrays/)

[John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/)

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> [This is also on my to see list. Since its 3 hours long, I'll be sure to watch it EARLY in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rana/this-is-also-on-my-to-see-list-since-its-3-hours-long-i-ll-be-sure-to/)

[Rana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rana/)

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> [As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-parry-liddon/as-a-man-passes-into-middle-life-or-beyond-it-autumn-it-has-been-said/)

[Henry Parry Liddon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-parry-liddon/)

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> [There is not a big difference between life and taking pictures... You're in the middle of life, you're living, making love, eating,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anders-petersen/there-is-not-a-big-difference-between-life-and-taking-pictures-you-re/)

[Anders Petersen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anders-petersen/)

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> [“In his middle life, at about the time such things were known about, it was discovered that, he had pernicious anemia. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/in-his-middle-life-at-about-the-time-such-things-were-known-about-it/)

[John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/)

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> [“We can keep ourselves so busy, fill our lives with so many diversions, stuff our heads with so much knowledge, involve ourselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-w-gardner/we-can-keep-ourselves-so-busy-fill-our-lives-with-so-many-diversions/)

[John W. Gardner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-w-gardner/)

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> [There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/there-is-a-thing-called-knowledge-of-the-world-which-people-do-not/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [This is the middle of my life, I think of it as a place, like the middle of a river, the middle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/this-is-the-middle-of-my-life-i-think-of-it-as-a-place-like-the/)

[Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/)

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> [The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/the-middle-path-makes-me-wary-but-in-the-middle-of-my-life-i-am/)

[Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/)

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> [“…. by the time they have reached the middle of their life’s journey, few people remember how they have managed to arrive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-musil/by-the-time-they-have-reached-the-middle-of-their-life-s-journey-few/)

[Robert Musil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-musil/)

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> [Everything for me has always been opposites; nothing has ever been in the middle... My life never had anything normal or in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eva-hesse/everything-for-me-has-always-been-opposites-nothing-has-ever-been-in/)

[Eva Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eva-hesse/)

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> [In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/in-middle-life-the-human-back-is-spoiling-for-a-technical-knockout/)

[E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/)

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> [Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-wells/youth-is-a-silly-vapid-state-old-age-with-fears-and-ills-is-rife-this/)

[Carolyn Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-wells/)

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> [In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-moore-colby/in-middle-life-politics-are-not-a-mental-acquisition-they-are-a/)

[Frank Moore Colby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-moore-colby/)

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> [As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-rice/as-if-it-were-our-very-birthright-which-we-could-not-come-to-grasp/)

[Anne Rice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-rice/)

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> [If they don't have that extreme addict personality, you can never understand how a guy can blow 300 or 400 million dollars.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-tyson/if-they-don-t-have-that-extreme-addict-personality-you-can-never/)

[Mike Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-tyson/)

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> [In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-tunney/in-youth-we-get-plenty-of-exercise-through-games-and-running-around/)

[Gene Tunney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-tunney/)

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