Midlife Crisis Man Quotes & Sayings

Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went. — Philip K. Dick

When I see a garden in flower, then I believe in God for a second. But not the rest of the time — Svetlana Alexievich

A man in the midst of a midlife crisis is an abomination on society. [This is my own quote. And it's true.] — Ross Bonander

I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are. — John Astin

It certainly inhibits a man's desire to change companies for a better job. Thus, it is at least a minor pressure against free-spirited enterprise. All the benefits exert pressure, too. There is nothing sinister about them, since admittedly they are for your own material comfort -- and isn't that supposed to be one of the goals of mankind? What happens is that, as the years go by, the temptation to strike out on your own or take another job becomes less and less. Gradually you become accustomed to the Utopian drift. Soon another inhibition may make you even more amenable. If you have been in easy circumstances for a number of years, you feel that you are out of shape. Even in younger men the hard muscle of ambition tends to go slack, and you hesitate to take a chance in the jungle again. — Alan Harrington

We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world's inability to protect and defend the innocent. — Angelina Jolie

Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies. — Jeremy Taylor

I haven't worked enough to worry about getting typecast, but I do as a film lover didn't want to be working with the bad guys. I didn't want to be making a movie I thought was contributing to a lower base of movies that I just didn't think were helping people, really. — Alden Ehrenreich

Today's truth will be tomorrow's lie and you will be left questioning your own sanity. — Michael R. Fletcher

Zombies are the proletariat. Long live the workers! — Justine Larbalestier

We learn to understand ourselves in and through it because the artwork is not a timeless present for a pure aesthetic consciousness (i.e., it is not an encounter with an object for which one can only express feelings of pleasure or displeasure), but rather, a real encounter with a world that presents itself historically. The self-understanding that occurs in relation to the experience of art, Gadamer tells us, is only possible when our experiencing is not discontinuous with "the unity and integrity of the other."17 — James Risser

Telemarketers tell me I sound like Bill Cosby. — Bill Cosby

Every one minute you spend in planning will save you at least three minutes in execution. — Crawford Greenewalt

I'm engaged" ...
"No, you're not," he growled into my neck. "You're married. To me. We came first, not him. — Elle Casey

25 The mark of a heart filled with goodness is a cheerful face, — Anonymous

Change your story, change your life. Basically, that's what it is. — Deepak Chopra

My philosophy is my learning process. Until you die, you must evolve and improve. — Miyavi