## Metadata - Author: [[Kieran Setiya]] - Full Title: Midlife - Category: #books ## Highlights - When I paused to contemplate the life I had worked so hard to build, I felt a disconcerting mixture of nostalgia, regret, claustrophobia, emptiness, and fear. ([Location 58](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B06ZZRFZ43&location=58)) - They are questions of loss and regret, success and failure, the lives you wanted and the life you have. ([Location 62](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B06ZZRFZ43&location=62)) - “Up till now,” he said, “life has seemed an endless upward slope, with nothing but the distant horizon in view. Now suddenly I seem to have reached the crest of the hill, and there stretching ahead is the downward slope with the end of the road in sight—far enough away it’s true—but there is death observably present at the ([Location 98](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B06ZZRFZ43&location=98)) - Albert Camus’s 1942 Myth of Sisyphus, whose existential crisis is not timeless but comes “when a man notices or says that he is thirty.” ([Location 110](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B06ZZRFZ43&location=110)) - Tags: [[blue]] [[aqua]] - His crisis ([Location 376](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B06ZZRFZ43&location=376)) - Tags: [[blue]] [[aqua]] - ‘We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for, I don’t know.’” ([Location 457](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B06ZZRFZ43&location=457)) - Her tree has more branches, a fractal intricacy inherited by the lives she has not lived. Mine is conveniently pruned. ([Location 693](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B06ZZRFZ43&location=693))