Mark Barrowcliffe Quotes

I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God.

I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever.

I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'

When I was 34, people would say, What's going to happen to you when you're 40? What are you going to do? You don't have much time left. And I was like, what are you talking about?

My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is breaking down. They're conflicted by the idea that they don't know what's next. You could call it Kierkegaard's leap of faith, when you get tired of sort of reinventing yourself on a very superficial level.

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.

I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't.

I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be.

I'm turning 22, so I want to start getting into work that reflects where I'm at in life now.

The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.

When I turned 40, subconsciously, life was a blank sheet. Before, it was disjointed, and I was very displaced and quite mad, but it was a brilliant time. Everyone thinks I must have been unhappy.

When I was in my 30s, I was at the end of a long-term relationship and going through a very hard time. I'd had about 15 different addresses and a series of relationships. I thought, 'It's time to have a look at yourself.'

I don't feel like a 40-year-old. I feel more like four 10-year-olds, each pulling in a different direction.

I cried when I turned 34 for no other reason than 34 sounded old to me at the time.

When I came back to Britain, I realized that I was no longer a very young woman. I had to meet my new consciousness, my new age, with roles that reflected it somewhat.

I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it.

I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

Around mid-life everyone goes maniac a little bit.

I don't like the term mid-life crisis.

Convention serves a purpose: It gives life meaning, and without it, one is in a constant existential crisis. If you don't have the imposition of family to remind you of what is at stake, something else will.

I think it actually started in my late thirties. I started changing psychologically, and it was difficult to translate that into my writing.

A lot of people like me, who've been around for years and years and years, only really lose it in their forties and fifties.

The self-help section of national bookstore chains in America is one of the largest sections. In a way, it's nothing new, and in another way, very new. People have always searched for answers; that's why we have religion. People have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.