Sara Gruen Quotes

When you hit your 40s, you're walking around, and you realize, 'Oh, my God, men don't look at me anymore.' Or sometimes you can feel really good, and then you look in the mirror, and you're like, 'Oh, Jesus, that's my face now!' But I have tell you that something happened and shifted inside of me.

You know, you get to a certain age, 45, 50, I don't know when it happens, I said, 'Jesus, all I got is a certain amount of time. Maybe I should think about using it a little better.'

In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.

I think time just goes faster and faster. I'm saying this a few months away from my fortieth birthday. I don't know when and if one's identity ever does catch up with one's actual age. Personally I feel like I just got the hang of thirty-five.

In your teens and twenties, death doesn't exist. In your thirties, you glance down the road occasionally. But then in your forties, it becomes a full-time job looking the other way.

Sometimes people ask me how old I am, and I have to stop and remember. I forget myself!

Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s, 60s and 70s, with health being a major factor.

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.

I still feel 29. Maybe I should act my age more, but I just can't.

I hit my thirties and felt I had to start being profound.

I would agree on the aging thing. Because, at a certain point, once you start noticing it, it is your subject. And I know young that people, when they get to 30, say, "Oh, I'm so old." But actually, around 50, you do become conscious of it.

I looked into the mirror and saw this middle-aged woman who keeps invading my face.

In my thirties I was doing it, in my forties I was organizing it and now, unfortunately, I can only talk about it.

Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.

I've got an age that I do think of myself.

Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

It's very odd, being older, because in a way it's hard to own the past, even.

I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day.

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.