Noun
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mid-life crisis (plural mid-life crises)
(psychology) An emotional period of doubt and anxiety sometimes experienced by people who realize that their life is already half over.
See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work. Robbie Coltraine
When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis. Warren Farrell
There is absolutely no reason why we have to deal with the mid-life crisis of our social policies by putting a bullet through their heads. John Ralston Saul
I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis. Bret Easton Ellis
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. George Montgomery
It's bad timing, but a lot of kids become teenagers just as their parents are hitting their mid-life crisis. So everybody's miserable and confused and seeking that new sense of identity. Laurie Halse Anderson