Too Late Quotes - Page 40

• Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Waiting, Feelings, Late

  "Being Late". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.

  Mitch Albom

  Beautiful Life, Supposed To Be, Never Too Late

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2012

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• You cannot come to Christ unless the Spirit of God brings you. But what if you ignore His warnings? Then you are in the gravest danger, for some day God will no longer be speaking to you. Then it will be too late. Come to Christ while there is still time. Christ, God's greater Ark, stands ready to welcome you to safety today.

  Billy Graham

  Safety, What If, Ark

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• I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life.

  Nicole Krauss

  Life, Thinking, World

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.84, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.

  Bryan Davis

  Broken, Bird, Body

  Bryan Davis (2012). “Liberator”, p.141, Zondervan

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• It's never too late with truth. It stands outside time.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Never Too Late, Late

  Karen Kingsbury (2013). “The Chance: A Novel”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears don’t have lids that can instinctively close against the words uttered, they can’t hide from what they sense they’re about to hear, it’s always too late.

  Javier Marías

  Mean, Knowing, Listening

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• You see, I want a lot. Perhaps I want everything the darkness that comes with every infinite fall and the shivering blaze of every step up. So many live on and want nothing And are raised to the rank of prince By the slippery ease of their light judgments But what you love to see are faces that do work and feel thirst. You love most of all those who need you as they need a crowbar or a hoe. You have not grown old, and it is not too late To dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out its own secret.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fall, Light, Hoe

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• I've been trying to fit everything in, trying to get to the end before it's too late, but I see now how badly I've deceived myself. Words do not allow such things. The closer you come to the end, the more there is to say. The end is only imaginary, a destination you invent to keep yourself going, but a point comes when you realize you will never get there. You might have to stop, but that is only because you have run out of time. You stop, but that does not mean you have come to an end.

  Paul Auster

  Running, Mean, Trying

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• By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, “There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.

  A. A. Milne

  Running, Rivers, Littles

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.73, Egmont UK

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• What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly...timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Confused, Innovation, May

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• Save yourselves!" Percy warned. "It is too late for us!" Then he gasped and pointed to the spot where Frank was hiding. "oh no! Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin!" Nothing happened. "I said," Percy repeated, "Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin." Frank stumbled out of nowhere, making a big show of grabbing his throat. "oh no," he said, like he was reading from a teleprompter, "I am turning into a crazy dolphin.

  Rick Riordan

  Crazy, Reading, Dolphins

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• It's always too late for sorries, but I appreciate the sentiment.

  Neil Gaiman

  Appreciate, Late, Sentiments

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• But it's far too late for us; ring, hair, letters, photographs - all traces of our love will be scattered then, like an anagram.

  Daniel Handler

  Hair, Our Love, Letters

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• By that point, it’ll have been more than year since I met Lulu. Any sane person would say it’s too late. It already felt too late that first day, when I woke up in the hospital. But even so, I’ve kept looking. I’m still looking.

  Gayle Forman

  Years, Firsts, Mets

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• I shattered that memory by going back there. Without realizing it until it was too late, I replaced that memory with the emptiness of that day.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Memories, Emptiness, Realizing

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• At the core of every religion is the belief that we care for everyone....It's not too late to help a neighbor in need and to do it with the swiftness, expertise, generosity and love that resides in the best of who we are.

  George Clooney

  Positive, Generosity, And Love

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• Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere 'Vivam':
  Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie.
  Believe me, wise men don't say 'I shall live to do that', tomorrow's life is too late; live today.
  Variant translation: Tomorrow will I live, the fool does say; Today itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday.

  Martial

  Wise, Time, Believe

  'Epigrammata' bk. 1, no. 15

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• What we want, we have for our pains
  The promise that if we but wait
  Till the want has burned out of our brains,
  Every means shall be present to state;
  While we send for the napkin the soup gets cold,
  While the bonnet is trimming the face grows old,
  When we've matched our buttons the pattern is sold,
  And everything comes too late-too late.

  Fitz Hugh Ludlow

  Time, Pain, Mean

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• Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Freedom, Tyrants, Democracy

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• But I love you I'm totally and completely in love with you and I don't care if you think it's too late. I'm telling you anyway.

  Natalie Portman

  I Love You, Thinking, Care

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• It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, "I will live." To-morrow's life is too late; live to-day.

  Martial

  Life, Wise, Believe

  "Epigrams" (c. 80-104 AD), I. 16. 11 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• To-morrow I will live, the fool does say;
  To-day itself's too late, the wise lived yesterday.

  Martial

  Life, Wise, Yesterday

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.251

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• He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Sweet, Poison

  "Hippolytus", CXXXIV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 464-484), 1922.

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• He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.

  H. L. Mencken

  Marriage, Late

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

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