Top 100 Late Life Quotes
#1. Can't get a read on you," he noted after a few beats. "You either just got a late life offer from the Colts to be their starting tight end or you're planning to kidnap someone to torture them.
Kristen Ashley
#2. It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!
Emily Eden
#3. She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They're toxic, and we're only going to realize the damage they're doing when it's too late.
Sophie Kinsella
#4. If you look at your class as anything less than life or death, you do not deserve to be a teacher. If you walk into the classroom ten minutes late, week after week, you need to resign. You wouldn't come in late on your job all the time, but I venture to guess that some of you do it on Sunday.
Bill Wilson
#5. It's more like I was daydreaming when the Supreme Being told me what I should do with my life, and it's too late to ask what it was.
Tim Tharp
#6. Pity how people are much loved and appreciated when they can no longer witness(late)
Evans Biya
#7. I did not realize what a gift I had been given until it was too late, forever too late. Must life always be that way?
Linda Collison
#8. It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant.
Jane Austen
#9. Find your way early, on the road of life. For the way is too long to be struggling, and far too short to be waiting.
Anthony Liccione
#10. Her heart was finished. It bore, perhaps, records of life, but it wasn't alive. Too late for decoration. Too late for effects. Further handling could only result in cracks and fractures. People could cut themselves on the edgesof her heart, she was sure of it.
Stephanie Kallos
#11. So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.
Freeman Dyson
#12. Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you become an adult and you realize that's not true, it's too late.
Muriel Barbery
#13. He did not drink or do drugs or smoke cigarettes or wear black eyeliner or stay out late or get bad grades or pierce his tongue or have the words "KATHERINE LUVA 4 LIFE" tattoed across his back.
John Green
#14. These people were the first to master a new kind of late twentieth-century life. They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never disappointed.
J.G. Ballard
#15. It's really not so good to have time. Rush, scramble, desperation, this missed, that left behind, those others too big to fit into such a small space
that's the way life was meant to be. You're supposed to be too late for some things. Don't worry about it.
Peter S. Beagle
#16. I've lived my life like a serial killer; finish with one part, strangle it and move on to the next. Life in neat little boxes is life in neat little coffins, the dead bodies of the past laid out side by side. I am discovering, now, in the late afternoon of the day, that the dead still speak.
Jeanette Winterson
#17. Sorry I'm late, I'm afraid I got lost on the path of life
-Kakashi Sensei
Masashi Kishimoto
#18. I haven't written a word of fiction since 2009. I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.
Philip Roth
#19. Judith (sadly): A change has come over my children of late. I have tried to shut my eyes to it, but in vain. At my time of life one must face bitter facts!
Noel Coward Sir
#20. By late August, I'm on my second sublet, and I've been working as a copywriter long enough to know I'm not good at it. I seem to be reliving the life I had when I was twenty-two, but I'm about to run twenty-eight, which feels like the opposite of twenty-two.
Melissa Bank
#21. I don't do sketch anymore and sometimes I miss it. But I think what I really miss is that time in my life, it was kind of like college. No kids, no real responsibilities, just comedy, food and late nights.
Alex Borstein
#22. Your heavenly eyes are shining like a late night star
To be in heaven, I like to get lost in those eyes forever.
Debasish Mridha
#23. Those who take responsibility for their actions are the real winners in life. Winners meet life challenges and head on, knowing there are no gurantees, and give it all they've got, and never think it's too late, or too early to begin.
Anonymous
#24. Nobody can stay with you forever; somebody will leave you soon or somebody very late but you must be left one day. so, don't get lost. Be with yourself. Life will never pain you.
Raj Singh
#25. Until late in life, I was never quite good enough for my father, and I suppose that is part of what drives me even now, well after his death in 1992.
Richard Smalley
#26. Love isn't jealous. It's kind and patient. It's accepting--it's late night talks and early morning kisses. It's arguing and making up. It's life with the one you can't live without.
Marquita Valentine
#27. [ ... ] I'll fucking kill them all. Every single one of them."
Corrado's voice rang out beside them. "Too late. They're all already dead."
Carmine glared at his uncle. "Well, we'll bring those motherfuckers back to life then.
J.M. Darhower
#28. Say it to them. Or say it to yourself in the mirror. Say it in a letter you'll never send or in a book millions might read someday. I think you deserve to look back on your life without a chorus of resounding voices saying 'I could've, but it's too late now.
Taylor Swift
#29. I feel I've done everything late in life. Got married late, and I didn't do my first movie until I was 31. But in this crazy business, you never know what's going to happen. Maybe after 20 years of making movies I'll become an overnight sensation.
Ray Liotta
#30. It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own way, steered by some secret compass of the soul. And sometimes, late or early, the compass lost its power and spun aimlessly on its bearings.
Alan Bishop
Arthur C. Clarke
#31. Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
B.C. Forbes
#32. I think the happiest time of my life was when I was in my late teens. I was a little bit of an it-girl. Making myself seen. And it was a wonderful time to be young.
Charlotte Rampling
#33. I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
Hannah Cowley
#34. Try to be "good", you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the "nice good people" as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help ... When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late.
Paulo Coelho
#35. Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
Anthony Trollope
#37. Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may;
The morrow's life too late is; live to-day.
Robert Herrick
#38. Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied with intervals of insensibility; and some late philosophers have extended the empire of sleep over the vegetable world.
Samuel Johnson
#39. Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.
L.M. Montgomery
#40. The density of people in society is so thick that we forget that life will end one day. And we don't know when that one-day will be. So please, tell the people you love and care for that they are special and important. Tell them, before it is too late.
Paula Fox
#41. As travellers through time, we are burdened with the stone in our shoe that tells us to stop running, to pause and take stock before we stumble and fall. We should make time to savour the quality of our lives before it's too late.
Fennel Hudson
#42. This late age of the world's experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears.
Virginia Woolf
#43. Tomorrow will be too late, it's now or never ...
Elvis Presley
#44. This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
Jack Vance
#45. Every man must be made to realize that further retreat is impossible. He must realize with his mind and heart that this is a matter of life and death of the Soviet state, of the life and death of the people of our country ... the Nazi troops must be stopped now, before it is too late.
Leonid Brezhnev
#46. I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in.
Wilford Brimley
#47. How I spend my time is my right
but in the end, it still affects those I don't leave time for. There's a yin and yang in life. But people seriously don't ever realize it until it's too late.
Rachel Van Dyken
#48. When decisively a new direction has come about in your life, you better take it or else you'll regret when it's too late and you can not change anything after that and if try you'll spend more than what you would've used at the first time.
Auliq Ice
#49. It was one of many times I tried to save her. But by the time I did, it was too late.
Debbie Howells
#50. The game meandered on and stories began to take over. It was getting late but going to bed meant good-bye so we pushed forward
Marina Keegan
#51. My work is not my life. I started writing quite late, I didn't have that 'writing is everything, my art is all.' You have to be able to recognise the difference between the two.
Kate Atkinson
#52. I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.
Rufus Sewell
#53. And I surely cannot tell him that I'm no more good for me or for him than I ever was, that I will disappoint and confuse him, that I've been alone my whole life, and that it may really be too hard and too late, not even desirable, after such long, familiar cold, to be known, and heard, and seen.
Amy Bloom
#54. You can put off the life you want to live until you wake up to find that it's too late.
Eric Greitens
#55. I guess we all feel we're in control and we are, until we're not. The problem is that seldom can we tell when it is that we step over the precipice of no return - and then for most of us it is to late.
Braam Malherbe
#56. Time ...
Once it's gone, it belongs to the past.
We do not hold on to the now, and
We do not treasure the future ...
We keep receiving this present, but we never open and cherish it until it is too late.
Until it comes no more.
Michelle Horst
#57. You can still make today the day you change yourself, love yourself, forgive yourself, respect yourself, honor yourself, cherish yourself, admire yourself, express yourself, be true to yourself ... It's never too late!
Steve Maraboli
#58. I used to have a big dog, a rottweiler, to guard the place. One night I was working late, and he was outside barking in the snow. He wouldn't stop. Then he stopped. I went out ten minutes later with a lamp, and there was a ring of wolves eating my dog.
Martin Cruz Smith
#59. It's early spring, some late or early hour with Orion toppling backward onto the serrated edge of the mountains and not crying out but silent, silent as he tries to shoot the bull before it tramples him. Sometimes he is very peaceful not tonight. Tonight he is fighting for his life.
Peter Heller
#60. As for herself, she'd lacked any type of shield or voice of reason. Her life had been molded into a shape and left to harden in the sun. It was too late for her to change now.
Tessa Bailey
#61. I had kids at age 47, and very late in life, and I'd been doing it for 30 straight years, writing songs, making a record and touring and starting the process right over.
Bob Seger
#63. If we marry we stay too poor to educate, and when we educate, it would be too late to enjoy the life.
M.F. Moonzajer
#64. Leaving would imply suitcases and empty drawers, and late birthday cards with ten-dollar bills stuffed inside.
Julie Kagawa
#65. Leaps over walls - especially when taken late in life - can be extremely perilous. To leap successfully, you need a sense of humor, the spirit of adventure and an unshakable conviction that what you are leaping over is an obstacle upon which you would otherwise fall down.
Monica Baldwin
#66. In Christ, it's never too late, you're never too old ... it's never "too anything" for Him to work positive change in your life.
Joyce Meyer
#67. Sometimes great power brings out the worst in us, and unfortunately, it isn't until people are given it that we see the true shades of their character.
Barbara Kloss
#68. It has been an easy, and a popular expedient of late years, to deny the personal or real existence of men and things whose life and condition were too much for our belief.
Homer
#69. I was schooled at home, then didn't go to university because I married when I was 17. I didn't go into work until late in my life.
Carolina Herrera
#71. There is no shame in doing the right thing , even if its too late.
Vishala Katta
#73. Life biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
Benjamin Franklin
#74. Life changes when you have a child, when you have your own family. You become more careful about what you do. You're not going to be out late, going out to clubs, hanging out with your friends. You're going to be at home, taking care of your daughter, playing with her.
Paul Pierce
#75. Social historians of the future no doubt will be amused by the fact that we late-twentieth-century Americans found it acceptable to discuss publicly in detail the most intimate aspects of personal life, while maintaining an almost prudish reserve concerning the political significance of family life.
Mary Ann Glendon
#76. Wasn't that the way life always worked? To learn a hard truth too late- was that better than never learnig it at all? Possible not. At least, if one never discovered what one wanted, one could never miss not having it.
Karen Robards
#77. The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby's birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night highway - most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of a ringing.
Mitch Albom
#78. It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.
Ben Carson
#79. You're always just a little too late. You've spent half your life battling regrets. Making up for the past rather than getting it done in the present.
Guillermo Del Toro
#80. We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#81. Please tell me it's not too late to fix this. Tell me you still love me. I've never wanted anything as much as I want you. I'll risk everything that's important to me, just to hear you say you want me in your life.
Lacey Weatherford
#83. In the late 1940s, Saunders had tended to a Jewish refugee from Warsaw dying of cancer in London. The man had left Saunders his life savings - £500 - with a desire to be "a window in [her] home."577
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#84. To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back in time about 20 years later to play the same character who is your own age then, its very complicated, but very interesting.
Ian McDiarmid
#85. There were many influences on me while growing up. In the late Seventies and early Eighties when I was growing up in Hyderabad, it was a bit more laid-back, and that gave you time to think about things differently without perhaps being caught up in the narrow approach to one's journey through life.
Satya Nadella
#86. A Woman who let out a Sigh Outside a Mansion, should Never ask her Husband Why He Works Late
Vineet Raj Kapoor
#87. No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.
Julia Cameron
#88. It'll never be too late to start to make use of the time you still have left
Sunday Adelaja
#89. Right then I should have also thought about the curve balls coming my way, but sometimes it's really hard to see things until theyhit you upside the head. Then it's too late.
Maria Rachel Hooley
#90. Way too late in life, Els learned that the time to concentrate yourself was right before sunrise.
Richard Powers
#91. When you get saved, act like you got some sense. You hear me? Whole lotta folks get saved and it take them an entire life before they start living by God's word. That's them ol' deathbed conversioners, them ol' heathens trying to get to heaven a lifetime too late.
Kiese Laymon
#92. As far as I'm concerned, my life is just beginning. It's never too late to start over, so this is what I've been doing.
LaToya Jackson
#93. I've discovered my Jewishness late in life. And I've really enjoyed exploring that world.
Beeban Kidron
#94. I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
Salma Hayek
#95. There is no such word as 'too late,' in the wide world - nay, not in the universe. What! shall we, whose atom of time is but a fragment out of an ever-present eternity - shall we, so long as we live, or even at our life's ending, dare to cry out to the Eternal One, 'It is too late!'
Dinah
#96. It's never too late to reach for happiness and no matter what life has done to you, it's never too late to find it.
Kristen Ashley
#97. I went through a normal kind of late teens, early 20s drinking, but it was a choice I made, because I didn't think it was very good for my life.
Christina Ricci
#98. It's funny, how you realize things too late. Someone once said to me the tragedy about life is that you understand it backwards. But I don't think so. I think the tragedy about life is there is no tragedy - you just don't know it till you die."
- Patty Belle Bellani
Marianne Macdonald
#99. That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.
Marjane Satrapi
#100. In life, you learn lessons. And sometimes you learn them the hard way. Sometimes you learn them too late.
Taylor Swift
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