Top 100 Always Too Late Quotes
#1. When the critics come around it's always too late.
Sidney Nolan
#2. 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 Marias
#3. Men's loyalty to their women dies hard - and almost always too late. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")
Cornell Woolrich
#4. I have tried," I said, "but he does not believe me. It is too late for that now" (it is always too late for truth, I thought).
Jean Rhys
#5. That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.
Marjane Satrapi
#7. It's never too late to start.
It's always too late to wait.
Jeff Olson
#8. You must have noticed it is always too late when questions are answered and hopes fulfilled and sacrifices made and murder done. Because it is always later than you think.
Robert Aickman
#9. It was too late to retreat - the world exists only because it is always too late to retreat.
Witold Gombrowicz
#10. You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.
Charles Kettering
#11. Love is strange & almost always too late.
Kevin Young
#13. WHat I learned is, it's never too late to save anybody. And it's always too late. And what are the chances you'll make any difference?
Chuck Palahniuk
#14. Love is strange & almost always too late.
Kevin Young
#15. Three o'clock. Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. An odd moment in the afternoon.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#16. It's always too late for sorries, but I appreciate the sentiment.
Neil Gaiman
#17. She's happier than Nicola. That's probably true. Alcoholics can stop drinking but what is there for the children of alcoholics? Is it always too late? Probably. She doesn't know.
Roddy Doyle
#18. It is always too late, or too little, or both. And that is the road to disaster.
David Lloyd George
#20. Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#21. It was always too late to retract, to try and retrieve what one had done.
Margaret Irwin
#22. It was always too late, she thought. At the point when you actually realized something important, the moment to do anything about it had already slipped by.
Emily Grayson
#23. Sometimes I think this job is going to kill me," Abby said. "Seeing what people have done, what people continue to do, to my Foxes. I wish I could protect you, but I'm always too late. All I can do is patch you up afterward and hope for the best. I'm sorry, Neil. We should have been there for you.
Nora Sakavic
#24. We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late.
Galen Rowell
#25. I did not realize what a gift I had been given until it was too late, forever too late. Must life always be that way?
Linda Collison
#26. Acting is always something I thought I could do, and I thought I would be pretty good at it, but I thought that I missed the opportunity, that it was too late.
Greg Poehler
#27. When he speaks into my hair, it is barely a whisper. 'Willow, it's never too late. And there's always a way to begin again.
Autumn Doughton
#28. Cursed, he once cried in a fit of rage. His temper has always been as restless and unpredictable as the sea itself. But his words had power behind them and I felt the effects instantly. Too late to take it back.
Jennifer Silverwood
#29. It is never too late to be who you might have been. It is always possible
Steve Miller
#30. You must buy on the way down. There is far more volume on the way down than on the way back up, and far less competition among buyers. It is almost always better to be too early than too late, but you must be prepared for price markdowns on what you buy.
Seth Klarman
#31. There is always time, it is never too late....When you die and you haven't done it, then it's too late!
Deyth Banger
#32. The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
J.D. Salinger
#33. When I was 21 I think I thought I was 31. I was always kind of doing the right thing, and it wasn't until my late twenties that I became just a completely wild asshole. So I should've had that out of my system already and I was too busy being a grown-up.
Ryan Reynolds
#34. Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.
Emile M. Cioran
#35. Trust your instincts, Dad always says. If something feels dodgy to you, if someone feels dodgy, you go with dodgy. Don't give the benefit of the doubt because you want to be a nice person, don't wait and see in case you look stupid. Safe comes first. Second could be too late.
Tana French
#36. Wasn't that the way life always worked? To learn a hard truth too late- was that better than never learnig it at all? Possible not. At least, if one never discovered what one wanted, one could never miss not having it.
Karen Robards
#37. The tragedy of hindsight is that it always come too late.
Marilyn L. Rice
#38. You're always just a little too late. You've spent half your life battling regrets. Making up for the past rather than getting it done in the present.
Guillermo Del Toro
#39. It felt like I'd taken everything for granted up until right now, when suddenly my entire world and all in it became precious and fleeting. I should have paid more attention, soaked it in more. Which you always realize once it's getting too late to do just that.
Sarah Dessen
#40. 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.
Elizabeth Strout
#41. It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.
Betty Ford
#42. You always think there will be more time and then suddenly there isn't. You know how it is. You have to leave before the rains come, or it's too late.
Alexandra Fuller
#43. Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.
Eileen Wilks
#44. There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life. Such grief, felt in such a way is always present, it is never too late to talk about it, never repetitious to mention it again.
Marcel Proust
#45. You think about people like Elvis, Kurt Cobain, or the Beatles, who grew up without privilege and needed a certain validation through peoples' acceptance, or admiration from their peers. And money is part of that, but it always comes too late.
Bradford Cox
#46. One of man's greatest failings is that he looks almost always for an excuse, in the misfortune that befalls him through his own fault, before looking for a remedy-which means he often finds the remedy too late.
Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
#47. It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
George Eliot
#48. Kevin knew he had to always outrun the enemy inside him, and if that meant playing football, he'd do it. During puberty, he had taken off running and found too late that he couldn't stop. In dreams that turned into nightmares he ran in fear, ripped from sleep in a sweat, shouting,"Run!
Brenda Sutton Rose
#49. It was too late, of course, for California. But California has always been a place where dreams go to live or die.
Madeline Ashby
#50. Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long, proves futile ...
Theodore White
#51. One of life's regrets is that you didn't always tell the truth, and now it's too late, because the truth has changed.
Robert Breault
#52. The lessons of experience are always learned too late.
George Sand
#53. Follow your passion. The rest will attend to itself. If I can do it, anybody can do it. It's possible. And it's your turn. So go for it. It's never too late to become what you always wanted to be in the first place.
J. Michael Straczynski
#54. People always want to know things . . . until they hear them, and then it's too late. Knowledge is a rug of a certain size, and the world is larger. It's not what remains uncovered at the edges that should worry you, rather what is swept beneath.
Mark Lawrence
#55. Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.
Lawrence Durrell
#56. The truth always arrive too late because it walks slower than lies. Truth crawls at a snail's pace.
Maryse Conde
#57. Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
Shirley Maclaine
#58. Peace is eternal. It is never too late to have peace. Time is always ripe for that. We can make our life truly fruitful if we are not cut off from our Source, which is the peace of Eternity.
Sri Chinmoy
#59. I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.
Cormac McCarthy
#60. You're late,' he said.
'I'm beautiful.'
'You're always beautiful.'
'I'm always late too.
Derek Landy
#61. If we're talking fantasy, I would love to host a late night talk show ... More Fallon than Leno. Those guys always seem like they're having way too much fun at their 'jobs.'
Aaron Sanchez
#62. You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, so that the lessons arrived too late to help. Experience was in that sense useless. It was precisely what could not be passed along in a lesson.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#63. In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once, by the doorman at the Carlyle Hotel.
Anna Quindlen
#64. The just response to this terrible event should be to go immediately to the world community, the United Nations. The rule of international law should be marshaled, but it's probably too late because the United States has never done that; it's always gone it alone.
Edward Said
#65. As you walk with God, you can always begin again. It is never too late for a fresh start. Your history does not have to be your destiny! Believe
Joyce Meyer
#68. They claim their labours are to build a heaven yet their heaven is populated with horrors. Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. A clock without a craftsman. It's too late. Always has been, always will be ... too late.
Alan Moore
#69. A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.
Lemony Snicket
#70. I don't always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don't. But it's never too late to change old habits.
Florence Griffith Joyner
#71. I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.
Jane Fonda
#72. They don't know I only speak in runaway train stations
and everybody is always a few minutes too late to the platform.
No one has ever gotten the chance to get too close
because it is never romantic to fuck the girl who makes love to her own sadness every single night.
Katelin Wagner
#73. I've always heard that by the time you see the teeth, its too late."
(this quote paraphrased in several Jayne Castle books)
Jayne Castle
#74. I remember your saying once that there is a fatality about good resolutions - that they are always made too late. Mine certainly were.
Oscar Wilde
#75. Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.
Seth Godin
#76. It's never too late to be, who you always aspired to be.
Louise Hall
#77. It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
Emil Cioran
#78. Jane remained in her chair thinking about justice, about how the dead never benefited from it. For them it always comes too late.
Tess Gerritsen
#79. It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!
Emily Eden
#81. I was becoming the cold, emotionally crippled monster I always wanted to be, and I wasn't so sure I liked it. But it was too late. The metamorphosis was already well under way.
Marilyn Manson
#82. It was too late to change anything. Too late to make different choices. To be a better mother than she had been. Kate could only be the mother that she was, Amelia's mother - the curator of her memory, the keeper of her secrets, the cherisher of her heart. That, she would always be.
Kimberly McCreight
#83. One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#84. I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.
Drew Barrymore
#85. No." Leo grinned reminiscently. "Tom was the most lawless man I ever knew. He always said he never let a friend
down - "
"But sometimes people didn't know they weren't friends any more until it was too late.
K.J. Charles
#86. In those dangerous narrows grew children who knew too much too young but, sadly, always seemed to learn too little too late.
Lori Lansens
#87. Proof of war, when it comes, always comes too late.
Janet Morris
#88. In the argument over whether knowledge is power or ignorance is bliss, it seems I've always come down on the side of ignorance. And when that's the side you fall on, you don't realize it until it's too late.
Abby Fabiaschi
#90. I love you, Jace. I always have, and through all my mistakes, I wanted you to know I've never said that to anyone else. Only you.Am I too late? Have you moved on? If you give me another chance, I promise to do everything in my power to never hurt you again.
Kindle Alexander
#91. He looked at me for a moment longer, with unbearable longing. I love you, Alexa. No matter what happens tomorrow, or any day after that, I will always love you.
My eyes burned. I love you, too, Rylan.
But it's not enough, he said. I was too late.
Sara B. Larson
#92. She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one.
Daniel Defoe
#94. Washington is a place where people have always been suspect of style and overt sexuality. Too much preening signals that you're not up late studying cap-and-trade agreements.
Maureen Dowd
#95. I don't trick." he replied, his voice huffy. "I wheedle and cajole. Occasionally I manipulate, but I'm always very sneaky about i, so you wouldn't know it was happening until it was far too late.
Cameron Dokey
#96. I learnt too late that what is most important to us is always most precious at the moment it occurs, and it is precious in its absolute immediacy and not as some vague confirmation of future directions; since the only certain fact, aside from death, is the flimsiness of everything.
Luke Davies
#97. 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
#98. Oh yes, he was an idiot. He'd always been frightened by how much he needed her. And now it was too late.
Cornelia Funke
#99. While you're deep in something, you never say or do what you need to. It's always after the fact, when it's too late, that you realize what you should've said or done.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#100. When you hurt someone, you always damage your own soul, and it doesn't feel good. A good person can feel it happening. A bad person doesn't notice until it's too late.
Sharon Bayliss
