Brené Brown
Researcher, author, speaker
"Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are."
Midlife quotes
Midlife
26 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Jules Renard
Writer
"We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it"
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence."
David Foster Wallace
Writer
"I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity"
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