Middle Aged Quotes
137 quotes by 126 authors
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The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face... It didn't add up.…
— Nick Hornby
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As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people. . . . Fennel . . . smelling of changes to…
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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If she had been left alone she would have gone on, in her own way, enjoying herself thoroughly, until people found one day that she…
— Doris Lessing
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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 cannot be taught…
— T.H. White
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There's nothing wild about me. I'm a solid middle-aged man." "Except that once a month you turn into a wolf and go tearing around slaughtering…
— Cassandra Clare
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If you're ever feeling a lack of middle-aged white men, just pop into the Capitol. Not so much the House of Representatives, which has a…
— James Patterson
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Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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After a childhood of hungering to be an adult, my hunger had passed. Unexpected fates had begun to catch my notice. These middle-aged women seemed…
— Lorrie Moore
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He looked like those paintings of baby angels - what do you call them, hubbubs? No cherubs. That's it. He looked like a cherub who'd…
— Rick Riordan
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Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
— Jean Baudrillard
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There were days - she could remember this - when Henry would hold her hand as they walked home, middle-aged people, in their prime. Had…
— Elizabeth Strout
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After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.
— Anne Lamott
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You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I’m sure you’ll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie.…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are…
— Malcolm X
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I'm not trying to be a middle aged centerfold, I just want to look at myself naked and not be disgusted.
— Terry McMillan
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And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a job and desperately…
— Brennan Manning
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...and motioned me toward a spot next to a middle-aged Moroi in a very formal and very designer black suit. The suit screamed, I'm sorry…
— Richelle Mead
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He was a nice guy, middle-aged, a little tired, like most doctors usually seemed to be, but he just nodded and said, "Let me take…
— Rachel Caine
Who Wrote These Middle Aged Quotes
126 authors contributed a total of 137 Middle Aged Quotes, led by these top contributors: