Middle Aged Quotes (9 quotes)

“With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“You know, it's funny: there are never any middle-aged souls. You hear about people being young souls, you really hear about old souls, but what about middle-aged souls?”
― Richard Ayoade, Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey

tags: middle-aged, old-souls, young-souls

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“A middle-aged man who’s probably down to jerking off every other day. A weary man of forty who’s already seen everything come around twice, who let me fuck him that once in a hole where whole armies of men have doubtless passed.”
― Edmund White, Our Young Man

tags: middle-aged

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“There comes a time in one’s life, perhaps in middle age, when we stop and assess who we are, and the life we have.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

tags: appreciation, contentment, life, mid-life-crisis, middle-aged

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“Jachin-Boaz was at the age called middle life, but he did not believe that he had as many years ahead of him as he had behind him.”
― Russell Hoban, The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz

tags: middle-age, middle-aged

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“As I approach mid-life, I feel like the old boot that lands on Mayfair after an eight-hour game of Monopoly.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

tags: mid-life-crisis, middle-aged

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“Perhaps 'defective' is a middle-aged person's default setting. Like the life cycle of a pear we go unripe, unripe, ripe, off. Except the men I meet seem to go adolescent, adolescent, adolescent, old, with no ripe bit, no wise bit, no emotional maturity before they wither.”
― Viv Albertine, To Throw Away Unopened

tags: adolescent-society, defective-humans, life-cycle, middle-aged, middle-aged-men, middle-aged-women

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“Sometime bad self-esteem is just good common sense" Cloris Leachman, Spanglish”
― Kristen Wasyliszyn, Why Is My Bra Still On?

tags: banter, edgy, humor, mature-audiences, middle-aged, strong-female-characters, tearjerker, unlikely-friends, witty

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“I'm 54, Scott. I'm not interested in holding anything back anymore. I'm not interested in protecting myself or being coy or photoshopping my emotions or my life.”
― Beth Ann Fennelly

tags: aging, being-coy, getting-older, holding-back, mid-age, middle-age, middle-aged, protecting-oneself

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