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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• 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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• The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in itself, that has virtue, albeit the virtue there is in mere illusions. Nature gives us this life like a toy to a weak child. We want to see how it all works; we break everything. There remains in our hands, and before our eyes, stupid and opened too late, the sterile wreckage, fragments that will not again make a whole. The good is so simple.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Nature, Children, Stupid

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• Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may;
  The morrow's life too late is; live to-day.

  Robert Herrick

  Wine, May, Drink

  Robert Herrick (1891). “The Hesperides & Noble Numbers”

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• If you will believe me, you who are young, yours is the golden season of life. As you have heard it called, so it verily is, the seed-time of life; in which, if you do not sow, or if you sow tares instead of wheat, you cannot expect to reap well afterwards, and you will arrive at little. And in the course of years when you come to look back, if you have not done what you have heard from your advisers,-and among many counsellors there is wisdom,-you will bitterly repent when it is too late.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Believe, Years, Training

  John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.377, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

  Seneca the Younger

  Purses, Economics, Economy

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• If it were only a few degrees, that would be serious, but we could adapt to it. But the danger is the warming process might be unstable and run away. We could end up like Venus, covered in clouds and with the surface temperature of 400 degrees. It could be too late if we wait until the bad effects of warming become obvious. We need action now to reduce emission of carbon dioxide.

  Stephen Hawking

  Running, Clouds, Waiting

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• A wait-and-see policy may mean waiting until it is too late.

  Verner E. Suomi

  Mean, Waiting, May

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• We're not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it's too late for that. We're trying to keep it from becoming a complete and utter calamity

  Bill McKibben

  Trying, Becoming, Global Warming

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• It's never too late to fall in love.

  Sandy Wilson

  Sweet, Falling In Love, Sweet Love

  It's Never too Late to Fall in Love (1953 song)

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• It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Believe, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.209

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