Midlife crisis Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

“As André and I left for South America, the newspaper boys were screaming headlines like: 'Stocks Collapse: Nationwide stampede to unload'; 'Unexpected torrent of…

— Belinda Alexandra

“My realisation that all I had ever done in life, not only in France but in England also, was to watch people, never to…

— Daphne du Maurier

“In order to succeed he must remain true to the feeling that had inspired him in the first place. It didn't matter that other…

— Rachel Joyce

“But then your husband dies, and you think how you’d beg for the apocalypse of the torn pants. Because now it’s your life that…

— Liz Fenton

“It was a strange business and it made a sad and curious impression on me; everything that had belonged to me in these earlier…

— Hermann Hesse

“He took off his hat and shook it (having hurried home as though his own coronation were waiting), and moved now with the slow…

— William Gaddis

“It was as if he'd suddenly become intimately aware of the fragility of life and how precious time really was. As a result, he…

— Micah Sparks

“She’d paid full price, but life was a competition and she knew non-working wives of wealthy men loved to talk about how they’d saved…

— Liane Moriarty

“It was a life that had left him rich in experience, but poor in goods of the world.”

— Louis L'Amour

“Inherited ambitions distracted people from the surreal encroachment of death. Some suspected they did not know their true desires. They were entrenched in so…

— Miranda Mellis

“He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled dreams of an inarticulate lifetime.”

— Edith Wharton

“Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.”

— Raheel Farooq