Quotes on Too Late

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.

A rose on time is more valuable than a $1,000 gift that's too late.

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.

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.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

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

And it was too late. No one wants to believe something is too late, but it is always becoming too late, and then it is.

Suddenly it wasn't only a personal thing to me. I could picture hundreds and hundreds of boys living on the wrong sides of cities, boys with black eyes who jumped at their own shadows. Hundreds of boys who maybe watched sunsets and looked at stars and ached for something better. I could see boys going down under street lights because they were mean and tough and hated the world, and it was too late to tell them that there was still good in it, and they wouldn't believe you if you did.

I think I'll stay alive here a bit longer, and see with my own eyes what's going to happen. I can still die after that - it won't be too late. Probably.

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.

Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.

There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell.

A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.

Each one of us was harmed by being brought into existence. That harm is not negligible, because the quality of even the best lives is very bad—and considerably worse than most people recognize it to be. Although it is obviously too late to prevent our own existence, it is not too late to prevent the existence of future possible people.

Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see them that they stayed there until very nearly tea-time, and then they had a Very Nearly tea, which is one you forget about afterwards, and hurried on to Pooh Corner, so as to see Eeyore before it was too late to have a Proper Tea with Owl.

Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late