Too Late Quotes - Page 12

• The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever.

  Tom Robbins

  Beer, Lunch, Dancing

  "Jitterbug Perfume". Book by Tom Robbins, 1984.

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• A feeling of disquiet continues to haunt me. As a youth one dreams of love; by the time one wakes, it is too late.

  Sandra Gulland

  Dream, Feelings, Youth

  Sandra Gulland (2002). “The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B: A Novel”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, it was most likely too late; there would not be time for me to flagellate myself for every dishonorable deed in that list, nor any chance to make good the harms I’d done. Minor harms, to be sure, in the scheme of things; but large enough to regret.

  Clive Barker

  Regret, Done, Deeds

  Clive Barker (2010). “Galilee”, p.55, HarperCollins UK

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• I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.

  Amy Tan

  Dust, Gold, Vagabonds

  Amy Tan (2005). “Saving Fish from Drowning”, p.18, Penguin

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• there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late

  Charles Bukowski

  Trust, Realizing, Decades

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.170, Canongate Books

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• In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed so obvious now that it was too late: a story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it. Reading a sentence and understanding it were the same thing; as with the crooking of a finger, nothing lay between them. There was no gap during which the symbols were unraveled.

  Ian Mcewan

  Reading, Writing, Mean

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• Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Differences, Knows

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.4, Oscar Wilde

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• In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change.

  Paulo Coelho

  Youth, Adolescence, Convinced

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• Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time . . .

  Saint Augustine

  Love You, Ancient, Late

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• My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Romance, Enemy

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [142]

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• Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber; it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! – and unfortunately' (speaking low and tremulously) 'there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.

  Jane Austen

  Real, Thinking, Generosity

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.302, BookCaps Study Guides

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• After she left everything fell apart. No Jew was safe. There were rumors of unfathomable things, and because we couldn't fathom them we failed to believe them, until we had no choice and it was too late. p 8

  Nicole Krauss

  Believe, Choices, Rumor

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.8, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now

  Edith Wharton

  Late

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.790, Delphi Classics

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• IT was the time of day when Lake Eden residents decided it was too late for a breakfast cookie and too early for a lunch cookie.

  Joanne Fluke

  Lakes, Lunch, Eden

  Joanne Fluke (2011). “Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder”, p.79, Kensington Books

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• Perhaps it's only when people are dead that we can safely show how much we cared about them. We know that it's too late then for them to do anything about it.

  P. D. James

  People, Shows, Knows

  FaceBook post by P.D. James from Sep 30, 2011

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• Too late. It's hatched.

  Christopher Paolini

  Late

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• I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome. "Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?" I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him.

  Sarah Dessen

  Heart, Hands, Space

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.262, Penguin

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• There is no such thing as 'too late' in life.

  Mitch Albom

  Life, Late

  Twitter post from Jan 04, 2017

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• you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspirational, Life, Hoe

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Errors, Apathy, Outcomes

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• We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Procrastination, Civilization, Thieves

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• It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Mediocrity, Doe, Bondage

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.343, Diversion Books

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• For we did makeup. But we didn't forgive each other. And we didn't take steps. And it got to be too late and we saw that each of us had invested too much in being in the right and we walked away and it was a relief.

  Alice Munro

  Makeup, Forgiving, Relief

  Alice Munro (1999). “The love of a good woman: stories”, Penguin, 1999

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• Hey, if you'd wanted to avoid 'this,' you shouldn't have lured me last night. Now it's too late. You might as well avoid the long, drawn-out pain and get it over with quickly. Sort of like taking off a Band-Aid. Or cutting off a limb." "Wow, who says there's no romance left in the world?

  Richelle Mead

  Pain, Cutting, Night

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Blues”, p.107, Zebra Books

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• It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.

  Robin Hobb

  Apologizing, Late, Forgiven

  "The Golden Fool". Book by Robin Hobb, 2002.

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