Midlife crisis Quote by Mary McNamara

“Age has cured me of the foolishness of youth. You become so much less reckless when the comfort of your hips and knees decides…

— Amy J. Murphy

“Am struck by paradoxical thought that youth is by no means the happiest time of life, but that most of the rest of life…

— E.M. Delafield

“Youth is feeling seventy years old, misanthropic, and ready to die at fifteen”

— Nikolai Grozni

“We need to think again about the beauties of age, its freedom and its splendor. It is the “fresh life within” that age reveals…

— Joan D. Chittister

“Surely the lives of the old are briefer than the young.”

— Robert Lowell

“On differing perspectives: "At birth, we're yanked from a warm, safe place and thrust into a world we have no way of comprehending. Childhood…

— Rick Reynolds

“It’s the beautiful thing about youth. There’s a weightlessness that permeates everything because no damning choices have been made, no paths committed to, and…

— Blake Crouch

“Youth is marked by a breathtaking novelty that diminishes with each year of age - until life becomes a delusive struggle to break routines,…

— Zack Love

“A later age looks back with nostalgia at an earlier one and depicts it in terms of ideals and activities now receding.”

— Romila Thapar

“All the same, they [young, twenty-somethings] can't help feeling that the aged and even the infirm have somehow elected that condition ... or have…

— John Barth

“Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.' I read that in a book somewhere and it's stuck in my head. Maybe it's…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“The young have aspirations that never comes to pass,the old have reminiscences of what never happened. It's only the middle-aged who are really conscious…

— Saki