Annaleigh Ashford Quotes

I've been having a midlife crisis since I was four years old.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

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

To me, nothing feels more like being dead than being in your 20s and having no direction in your life.

Ages 18 to 22 is such a hard transition, everyone's depressed.

I am such a desperate man headed into a midlife crisis.

I don't know any 21-year-old who's not having an existential crisis.

MID-TWENTIES BREAKDOWN: A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties, often caused by an inability to function outside of school or structured environments coupled with a realization of one's essential aloneness in the world. Often marks induction into the ritual of pharmaceutical usage.

I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity

There's nothing worse than being an aging young person.

When you come out of your teens, you think you're sussed. But you don't know who you are at 22. You're constantly trying to fit in. You get a little lost.

My 20s were a time where I made it; my 30s were when I was away, confused, and trying to figure it all out.

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.

There was a small point in my life in law school, right before I moved to Newark, when I didn't know what I wanted to do, and I felt so lost.

I can understand the dilemma of growing up in a bubble, and then not knowing what to do when unemployment beckons and reality bursts in.

If you've been laid off, you know how it goes: Everything you thought you knew and liked about yourself gets called into question.

In my teens, I eyed my adulthood with trepidation, as if stalked by a stranger - one who would seize control as if by demonic possession and regard my fledgling incarnation with contempt.

I spent a lot of time flailing around, not really sure what I wanted to do, in my 20s and early 30s.

When I left college, I though that I would be immediately embraced by the film world and instead found myself sitting in a squat for three years not knowing what to do with my life.

There's something that happens around 27 and 28, when people start coupling off more aggressively or changing their lives according to what their economic prospects are, and not keeping themselves on par with the group - you realise suddenly that they're not your family. And I think that's very painful.

Youth is such a fascinating and volatile concoction of vulnerability, dependence, restlessness, relentlessness. You're still learning the terms of the world and of the self, in a very immediate way.

Twenty is a hard time. It doesn't matter what profession you're in or how much experience you have, you're always going to be haunted by this feeling of failing. It's terrifying.

I think everyone grew up thinking that by their mid-20s they'd have everything sorted out, but I know I don't.

I moved back home after graduating from Virginia Tech. And that's when reality hit. I knew I had to do something. I guess it doesn't click when you're that young. I was 19 and had finished college. I got home and had to figure out what I was going to do.