There is some debate in professional circles about whether the so-called “midlife crisis” exists. — James Hollis Copy Share Image
Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Midlife doesn’t feel like a fork in the road. It feels like a goddamn roundabout.” — Bree Penfold Copy Share Image
I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Hollywood actresses age in dog years. I'm 25 in the rest of the world, but I'm about 48 in actress years. I'm… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
“I used to think healing meant fixing yourself. But maybe it’s just about feeling yourself again. Messy. Leaky. Alive.” — Bree Penfold Copy Share Image
Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Midlife shouldn’t be the end of youth. It should be the beginning of giving zero f*cks and finally doing life our way.” — Bree Penfold Copy Share Image
I don't believe the United States is going through a midlife crisis. The United States is going through an adolescent crisis. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think there are different kinds of poetry for different stages of life and there's the wild, exuberance of youth, there's the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
As we reach midlife in the middle thirties or early forties, we are not prepared for the idea that time can run… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
How many of those who are insecure seek power over others as a compensation for inadequacy and wind up bringing consequences down… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Miniver suddenly understood why she was enjoying the forties so much better than she had enjoyed the thirties: it was the… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
People may call what happens at midlife 'a crisis,' but it's not. It's an unraveling - a time when you feel a… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
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… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Have interesting failures… If you need to have a personal crisis have it now. Don't wait until midlife, when it will take… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“Maybe midlife isn’t the crisis we joke about. Maybe it’s the moment you finally stop waiting—for permission, for perfection, for the "right"… — Bree Penfold Copy Share Image
If you allow yourself to deepen with midlife, your experience of everything deepens, including your experience of God. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than… — Jane Brody Copy Share Image
Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The Hollywood Foreign Press have just given me a time out from my 20-year midlife crisis. My heartfelt thanks to them. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
“The capacity for growth depends on one’s ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
It's kind of like a midlife crisis kind of thing. When you turn 40, you have to run the marathon, while all… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
Some people in Hollywood think of me as a model for dramatic midlife transitions: suburban housewife to Emmy-winning actress. But I never… — Kathryn Joosten Copy Share Image
“Even if you do not want to, One day you will look back through your life...the Question is, what are you going… — Moffat Machingura Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The place has had a super-conflicted relationship to its mission. In 1956, it opened as the Museum of Contemporary Crafts. Then in… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is the key to everything, and this is especially true when one approaches the cultural portal known as "middle age." This… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
People who aren't addicts want to know why I became one. They ask whether I had a midlife crisis. I'm only speaking… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
