Too Late Quotes - Page 13

• From Mother you will inherit the belief that you can journey to your fate, there's a place to be located on a map that's destiny. If only you can get there. If it isn't too late. If no one stops you.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mother, Fate, Journey

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• As I settled down to sleep in that new bed in the dark city, I saw that it was too late now, too late for everything. I would not be given a second chance. In the hours when I woke, I have to tell you that this struck me almost with relief.

  Colm Toibin

  Sleep, Dark, Second Chance

  Colm Toibin (2012). “The Empty Family: Stories”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, Sabina and Franz would have begun to understand the words they used. Gradually, timorously, their vocabularies would have come together, like bashful lovers, and the music of one would have begun to intersect with the music of the other. But it was too late now.

  Milan Kundera

  Vocabulary, Together, Lovers

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• Our radio plays rhythm and blues as we pass the joint back and forth in jutjawed silence both looking ahead with big private thoughts now so vast we can't communicate them anymore and if we tried it would take a million years and a billion books - Too late, too late, the history of everything we've seen together and separately has become a library in itself - The shelves pile higher - They're full of misty documents or documents of the Mist-.

  Jack Kerouac

  Book, Years, Play

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• What happens if your choice is misguided, You must try to correct it But what if it’s too late? What if you can’t? Then you must find a way to live with it.

  Libba Bray

  Choices, What If, Trying

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.226, Delacorte Press

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• For ten years I had been protected, wrapped up in something like a blanket that had been stitched together from all kinds of different things. But people never notice that warmth until after they've emerged. You don't even notice that you've been inside until it's too late for you ever to go back-- that's how perfect the temperature of that blanket is.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Years, People, Perfect

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.32, Grove Press

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• A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.

  E. M. Forster

  Death, Men, Funeral

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howards End”, p.101, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• It's not the side-effects of the cocaine - I'm thinking that it must be love. It's too late to be grateful, It's too late to be hateful, It's too late to be late again, The European cannon is here.

  David Bowie

  Grateful, Thinking, Sides

  "Song: 'Station To Station'". 1976.

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• She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.

  Jodi Picoult

  Heart, Animal, Leaving

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• I should have kissed more than your hand...thought I'd have more time," he whispered between liquid, panting breaths. "...too late now." I looked into his eyes and completely forgot the rest of the world. In that moment, all I knew was that I was holding Stark in my arms, and I was going to lose him very, very soon.

  P. C. Cast

  Eye, Hands, Should Have

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• I feel as if one would only discover on one's death-bed what one ought to have lived for, and realise too late that one's life has been wasted. Any passionate and courageous life seems good in itself, yet one feels that some element of delusion is involved in giving so much passion to any humanly attainable object. And so irony creeps into the very springs of one's being.

  Bertrand Russell

  Spring, Passion, Giving

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.232, Routledge

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• I never meant to call you Mudblood, it just-" Lily: "Slipped out? It’s too late. I’ve made excuses for you for years. None of my friends can understand why I even talk to you. You and your precious little Death Eater friends ... You’ve chosen your way, I’ve chosen mine.

  J. K. Rowling

  Death Eaters, Years, Lilies

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• Mr. and Mrs. Darling and Nana rushed into the nursery too late. The birds were flown

  James M. Barrie

  Nurse, Bird, Darling

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.29, 谷月社

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• But as he reached the ground and sprinted towards the dais, Lupin grabbed Harry around the chest, holding him back. There's nothing you can do, Harry -' Get him, save him, he's only just gone through!' - it's too late, Harry.' We can still reach him -' Harry struggled hard and viciously, but Lupin would not let go... There's nothing you can do, Harry...nothing...he's gone.

  J. K. Rowling

  Letting Go, Gone, Stills

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• Exhaustion was pressing upon and overpowering her. "Good-by--because I love you." He did not know; he did not understand. He would never understand. Perhaps Doctor Mandelet would have understood if she had seen him--but it was too late; the shore was far behind her, and her strength was gone. She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again.

  Kate Chopin

  Distance, Love You, Doctors

  Kate Chopin, Sheri Metzger (2009). “CliffsComplete The Awakening”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are stars in the night sky that look brighter than the others, and when you look at them through a telescope you realize you are looking at twins. The two stars rotate around each other, sometimes taking nearly a hundred years to do it. They create so much gravitational pull there's no room around for anything else. You might see a blue star, for example, and realize only later that it has a white dwarf as a companion - that first one shines so bright, by the time you notice the second one, it's too late.

  Jodi Picoult

  Stars, Night, Dwarves

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.492, Simon and Schuster

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• I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Way, Ripped, Late

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• At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations. What we are being, not what we are to be. They are the same thing.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Expectations, Firsts, Realizing

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• It's certainly not too late to change to the winning side. But you know, you also have the freedom to stay just where you are. That's what it means to be an American. That's the miracle of America. Freedom to believe means the freedom to believe the wrong thing, after all. Just as freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Mean, Winning

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• We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I don't think anything can be done in Spanish, do you?' Neruda agreed, but we decided it was too late for us to write our verse in English. We'd have to make the best of a second-rate literature.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.

  Milan Kundera

  Moving, Home, Paris

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• It's never too late to fix things with people you love, Massie. Kendra said. That's true. William agreed.

  Lisi Harrison

  People, Said, Never Too Late

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• Are you such a dreamer To put the world to rights? I'll stay home forever Where two and two always makes a five I'll lay down the tracks Sandbag and hide January has April's showers And two and two always makes a five It's the devil's way now There is no way out You can SCREAM and you can shout It is too late now Because... You have not been Payin' attention! Payin' attention! Payin' attention! Payin' attention! You have not been paying attention!

  Thom Yorke

  Home, Two, Rights

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• Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight, when I come back we will go out together, we will walk out together among, the ten thousand things, each scratched too late with such knowledge, the wages of dying is love.

  Galway Kinnell

  Sleep, Hair, Dying

  Galway Kinnell, “Little Sleep's-Head Sprouting Hair In The Moonlight”

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• Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.

  Eileen Wilks

  Regret, Guilt, Useless

  Eileen Wilks (2004). “Tempting Danger”, p.30, Penguin

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