Middle Age Quotes

“when George Orwell remarked that by forty everyone has the face he deserves, he was making an important observation on middle age; namely, that at forty, or around then – the point is not one that appeals to the literal-minded – one sees in one’s own face what one has to live with, what one has become and what one might hope for in the future.”
― Christopher Hamilton, Middle Age

“There is never time to say our last word – the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt. (”
― Christopher Hamilton, Middle Age

“Middle age is the time of life in which one sees how important it is to be able to forget a great deal in order to live healthily.”
― Christopher Hamilton, Middle Age

“loneliness is, I think, characteristic of the experience of mid-life, for that is the time when one is likely to become newly aware of just how hostile the world can be.”
― Christopher Hamilton, Middle Age

“when others in middle age become increasingly aware of their mortality as their body starts to age in a way that cannot be ignored, there is felt the cold presence of death.”
― Christopher Hamilton, Middle Age