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Middle Aged Quotes

Quotes tagged as "middle-aged" Showing 1-8 of 8
Richard Ayoade
“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

Edmund White
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

Fennel Hudson
“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

Russell Hoban
“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

Fennel Hudson
“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

Viv Albertine
“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

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