Life Lately Quotes

#1. For so long I've viewed God as someone who takes away things in my life. Lately I've been reminded of what He brings to my life - things like peace and faith and hope.

Christy Barritt

#2. It was what she'd been doing in every aspect of her life lately, wanting to hole up in the backseat and not be asked to drive. Just hand over the keys to someone else.

Cara McKenna

#3. A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.

Jerry Saltz

#4. Lately she'd been able to grin again. It's not that she was happy, but life kept moving, kept demanding to be lived,

Katy Regnery

#5. My grandfather has been very depressed lately. He just doesn't know what to do. He says it's late in the game, and he's afraid that life has him beaten."
"Tell him to take out the goalie.

Charles M. Schulz

#6. Done any exciting sums lately?"
"I don't just do sums," Miles told her. "There's much more to my life than that."
"Is there?" Alicia asked, trying to sound interested.
"Yes," said Miles. "Sometimes I draw graphs.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#7. Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.

J.R. Ward

#8. If philosophy is to be a valuable part of life, we have to appreciate it for its own sake, and not just for what it's done for us lately.

Julian Baggini

#9. Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.

Brandon Sanderson

#10. But lately she had been starting to experience strong, inarticulate feelings of longing, of a desire to be with Joe all the time, to inhabit his life and allow him to inhabit hers, to engage with him in some kind of joint enterprise, in a collaboration that would *be* their lives.

Michael Chabon

#11. But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.

Thomas Jefferson

#12. I feel like I'm stuck inside my body. Everyone's moved forward, but I've been stuck in the same place. Since I've come into all this awareness lately, the hardest part has been remembering who I used to be, the dreams that died, the years I've lost.

Sidney Halston

#13. He'd been thinking about a lot of things lately, things that would
never happen, things it was best not to think about. Things like waking up with Delaney every morning for the rest of his life and watching her hair turn
gray.

Rachel Gibson

#14. Something had offended her and failed to apologize. Not lately-long ago. Life probably.

Joseph Hansen

#15. Boyfriends and literature: How can you make a life out of those two things? As it turns out, I did; more literature than boyfriends lately, but I guess you can't have everything.

Susanna Kaysen

#16. I haven't been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.

Charlotte Eriksson

#17. For years, she had been in mourning for the way she had let her life slip through her fingers. Given another chance, she'd told herself, she would take more care to experience it. But lately, she was finding that she had experienced it after all and just forgotten, and now it was returning to her.

Anne Tyler

#18. I've been stabbed lately with life.

Pepper Phillips

#19. Her life seemed to her a great engineering work scarcely begun. Lately more excavation than construction had occurred. She had lost a sense of her own invincibility. In that way she was no longer archetypically American.

Marge Piercy

#20. I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.

Thomas Hardy

#21. When you want to change the world, have you changed yourself lately?

Debasish Mridha

#22. Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very narrow lately, very nervous, a little afraid of this brawling, fabulous, unpredictable world.

Julian Gough

#23. Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right."
"Sam," I say, "that's not true; I am one of God's most lonely men.

Charles Bukowski

#24. It's not that I am not moved by these things, that I don't them in my life. But lately, their power has diminished. - 140

Robin Romm

#25. What is the point of finding the reason as long as you know that you are on the right path? And I have realized lately that the right path is the one where you feel happy within yourself, at ease within yourself. - The Monk (Pg-95)

Shashi

#26. Much comment has been given lately to the Code of the Samurai,
the Art of Death which makes our soldiers exult in self- sacrifice; but scarcely any attention has been drawn to Teaism, which represents so much of our Art of Life.

Okakura Kakuzo

#27. Growing up, I never felt deprived. I was always happy. It seems only lately I've started seeing everything I didn't have.

Kasie West

#28. Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.

Kristin Hannah

#29. I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts.

Douglas Coupland

#30. Everyone goes out of life just as if he had but lately entered.

Seneca.

#31. Lately, they were always reassuring each other that nothing was wrong; and probably it was true - life wasn't supposed to be incredible, after all. Life wasn't some incredible movie. Life was all the movies, ever, happening at once. There were good ones, bad ones, some went straight to video.

Tao Lin

#32. That my plans have lately gone somewhat awry is the sort of risk one must take if life is to be superb.

Gore Vidal

#33. It seemed that both had lately had a touch of that pain under the waistband which comes of a sedentary life.

Nikolai Gogol

#34. Our birthday is celebrated every year to commemorate the very first instant we came into the world, and a funeral is held to mark the day we leave it. But lately I've been wondering ... what can be said of all the moments in between our birth and our death? The moments when we are reborn ...

Taylor Swift

#35. He was happy. All his life. ALL his life. There is an all now: beginning and end. But then I suppose no one gets out alive.
Lately, in the last years especially, he has been so happy. Surely that is a good life? That is enough? Dear God, I hope so.

Priya Parmar

#36. Is it a good life, Daddy? Nkiru has taken to asking lately on the phone, with that faint, vaguely troubling American accent. It is not good or bad, I tell her, it is simply mine. And that is what matters.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#37. Dr. Stockmann. I have already told you that what I want to speak about
is the great discovery I have made lately
the discovery that all the
sources of our moral life are poisoned and that the hole fabric of our
civic community is founded on the pestiferous soil of falsehood.

Henrik Ibsen

#38. If I'd ever seen what love really could do, or was, maybe I'd have believed in it from the start. But too much of my life had been spent watching marriages come together and then fall apart. So I understood, yes. But sometimes, like lately, I wished that I didn't, not at all.

Sarah Dessen

#39. I've been thinking about your Father a lot lately, and I've realized something. I married Gary specifically for the fact that he wasn't Curtis. If your Father has an opposite, it's Gary. I just need to decide if I want to spend the rest of my life with someone I married by default.

Matthew Norman

#40. Life is like a book. Some of the pages you want to rip out and others you want to keep. I've been ripping out a lot of pages lately, getting rid of the ugly stuff. The stuff that's left behind isn't as bad as I thought it was.

R.K. Ryals

#41. Lately, he had been thinking. He'd been thinking that his life didn't reflect everything going on inside his head.

Nathan McCall

#42. We are reminded how short life really is, and how we are just passing through. So, all the people you haven't told you love lately, tell them, and live your days like you mean it.

Hal Sutton

#43. Which was just well: goodbyes had never been my strong suit anyway, and lately my life had felt like an unbroken series of them. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.

Ransom Riggs

#44. I am open to squeezing in whatever I can in this wonderful life. Instead of asking, "Is that all there is?" I seem, lately, to be always saying, "Wow!"

Denise Duhamel