“ 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
“ Isn't it enough to be middle-aged and impeccably beautiful? Why must one be economically useful? Pietros Maneos
“ I'm not against anyone fastening their life to an event of some significance and that way making themselves significant. God knows, we need what footholds we can find on the glass mountain of our exis… Jeanette Winterson
“ You know what it's like, finding eight middle-aged guys having tantric sex with ostriches? Warren Ellis
“ Seven Ages: first puking and mewlingThen very pissed-off with your schoolingThen fucks, and then fights Robert Conquest
“ To say that the frozen silence contracted itself into a yet higher globe of ice were to under-rate the exquisite tension and to shroud it in words. The atmosphere had become a physical sensation. As w… Mervyn Peake
“ When you reach your middle age, you see a train far away and shortly after you watch that train passing rapidly in front of you and finally the train disappears in the horizon like a streak of lightni… Mehmet Murat ildan
“ It was easy, terribly easy, to become with time a middle-aged spinster with a sharp tongue. She would have to guard against this. Alexander McCall Smith
“ The word genius was whispered into my ear the first things I ever Heard while I was still mewling in my crib, laughs Orson (Welles), so it never occured to me that I wasn't until middle age Barbara Leaming
“ Seven Ages: first puking and mewlingThen very pissed-off with your schoolingThen fucks, and then fightsNext judging chaps' rightsThen sitting in slippers: then drooling. Robert Conquest
“ When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren't that wrong. Those little age differentials, so cruci… Julian Barnes
“ Eve still marveled on a daily basis at the speed with which her own life had changed. A year ago, she'd been lost and flailing, and now she was found. She wanted to call it a miracle, but it was simpl… Tom Perrotta
“ Do something very praiseworthy in your youth or in your middle age so that you can spend all your time talking about it in your old age! Mehmet Murat ildan
“ Tall as he is, there is no carrying the slope under his shirt as anything other than a loose gut, a paunch that in itself must weigh as much as a starving Ethiopian child. John Updike
“ As young adults, we were wearing the shoes of the new future. Our generation would soon be the ones to determine the political climate of our country, the constitution of a family, and the morality of… Lynda I Fisher
“ I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it dawns on you that when he went he took some of you… Bill Bryson
