Meghan Daum Quotes

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Being middle-aged is about realising that you've lived most of your life. You don't have as much time in front of you as you have behind you.

I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there's a mirror there. And you look in the mirror, and you're an old man.

I think when you turn 50 you get a little melancholic in a way.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'

There must be times when people look in the mirror and they realize they're 60.

I feel like when you're in your late teens and early 20s, you just don't think about certain things in your life, and as you get older, you think about your parents getting older.

I think in your 30s you can still pretend you're in your 20s, or at least maintain some semblance of youth. Forty is when you've got to stop denying the inevitable.

The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.

I am what I am - which is I have aged.

I'm forty four; I'm way closer to dead than I am life of the party.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

I'm 47 now, and I'm at that stage where I'm still young but I'm not young. I'm not old but I'm getting old, and I have stuff at home that reminds me of people and places.

As a woman, when you embrace where you are in life, then I think the struggle [life] isn't so hard. If you're 42 and still think you're an ingenue, then you've got a problem.

But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.

I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.