Quotes About When It's Too Late

#1. She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They're toxic, and we're only going to realize the damage they're doing when it's too late.

Sophie Kinsella

#2. Why do we live in a time where we only say what we feel when it's too late? We have evolved. We can split atoms and cure diseases and travel to other planets. Yet we can't say how we feel. We can't tell one another who we really are and be accepted for it.

M. Jonathan Lee

#3. It was quarter past four, that deadly time of morning when it's too late to go back to sleep and still too early to rise and shine.

Stephen King

#4. When decisively a new direction has come about in your life, you better take it or else you'll regret when it's too late and you can not change anything after that and if try you'll spend more than what you would've used at the first time.

Auliq Ice

#5. If you don't try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become.

Rumi

#6. Attraction, confession, unison and finally the real face of it all. I wonder why do people go blind in love and come to their senses only when it's too late!

Shilpa Sandesh

#7. No. I just don't want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it's too late. I want to prevent it from happening.

Jennifer Echols

#8. Better to get off the train at this station. Than to do it later, when it's too late. Remember Time doesn't wait!

Deyth Banger

#9. It's funny how things don't matter any more when it's too late.

Carole Matthews

#10. And what I don't understand I grasp it only when it's too late.

Mahmoud Darwish

#11. Was there any fate more bitter than to get what you long for most, when it's too late?

Laini Taylor

#12. Waking to the truth when it's too late is a terrible thing. I know that very well.

Stephen King

#13. A decent idea now is way better than a brilliant plan when it's too late." "I

James S.A. Corey

#14. Funny how you can live your whole life waiting and not know it ... Waiting for your real life to begin. Maybe the most real thing the end. To realize when it's too late. I know now that I loved him more than anything on earth or off of it.

Peter Heller

#15. The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way we've taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when it's too late.

Clayton M Christensen

#16. Nothing wrong with taking time to figure out your life and make sure you really like where your life is going. I mean, it's better to do it now than when it's too late.

Melody Carlson

#17. 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

#18. Some only learn the value of time when it's too late!

Stephen Richards

#19. Truths about writing can be framed before you've published a word; truths about life can be framed only when it's too late to make any difference.

Julian Barnes

#20. Maybe the most real thing the end. To realize when it's too late.

Peter Heller

#21. It's in that moment, when there's nothing, that you find out what you were willing to forgive, and what not. Too late for that, though. Too late.

Kate Wrath

#22. It's more like I was daydreaming when the Supreme Being told me what I should do with my life, and it's too late to ask what it was.

Tim Tharp

#23. When the critics come around it's always too late.

Sidney Nolan

#24. You can't wait forever for something, and then say it's too late when the time finally comes, even if every shred of incentive inside you has been lost.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#25. Everyone wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late. Jonathan Tropper, from The Book of Joe

Madelon Phillips

#26. 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

#27. Perhaps it's only when people are dead that we can safely show how much we cared about them. We know that it's too late then for them to do anything about it.

P.D. James

#28. Aagragaah. It mean lit'rally der time when you see dem little pebbles and you jus' know dere's gonna be a great big landslide on toppa you and it already too late to run. Dat moment, dat's aagragaah.

Terry Pratchett

#29. The problem is that "by now" is a phrase we say to ourselves when we're trying to believe the lie that it's too late to start pursuing our dream.

Jon Acuff

#30. When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.

Bradford Cox

#31. We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.

V.S. Naipaul

#32. I'm living the dream! I just want to tell actors and writers it's never too late, and it can happen when you least expect it.

Geneva Carr

#33. 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

#34. Everything becomes ... too late, finally. You know it's going on ... up on the hill; you can see the dust, and hear the cries, and the steel ... but you wait; and time happens. When you do go, sword, shield ... finally ... there's nothing there ... save rust; bones; and the wind.

Edward Albee

#35. Is it too late?" I asked Margot Cherry that afternoon. It's been more than thirty years and still I can remember how my voice shook. "How do we know when we've loved someone all that we can?

Lee Martin

#36. But we all waste opportunities,' said Domenica. Every single one of us. Every young person does it. It's because we think we have so much time, and then, when we realise that our time is finite, it's too late.

Alexander McCall Smith

#37. There's a long goodbye,and it happens every day,when a passerbyinvites your eyeto come away.Even as you smile a quick helloyou let her go,you let the moment fly ... Too late you turn your head,you know you've saidthe Long Goodbye.

Johnny Mercer

#38. When tears spring to his eyes, I know the king's heart, no matter how small or cold, has been broken. He loves Maven, in his own way. But it's too late for that.

Victoria Aveyard

#39. And I thought
when you're a half-hour late, and your friends think you're in jail, it's probably a sign you steal too much.

CrimethInc.

#40. It's too late for preparation when opportunity strikes.

John Wooden

#41. 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

#42. It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.

W. Somerset Maugham

#43. When you get saved, act like you got some sense. You hear me? Whole lotta folks get saved and it take them an entire life before they start living by God's word. That's them ol' deathbed conversioners, them ol' heathens trying to get to heaven a lifetime too late.

Kiese Laymon

#44. That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.

Marjane Satrapi

#45. People so seldom say I love you And then it's either too late or love goes. So when I tell you I love you, It doesn't mean I know you'll never go, Only that I wish you didn't have to.

Fulton Oursler

#46. It matters only that you manifest your genius; it doesn't matter when. It's never too late or too early.

Mark Victor Hansen

#47. We often search for the gold in our life but we fail to understand that all glisters are not gold, When we understand our mistake it's too late, So never run after anything, Just wait for the right time to get the best in life.

Debolina Bhawal

#48. The fear he'd dared not voice until now - when it was all but too late - because when stacked alongside the survival of humanity his fears mustn't matter. "Will you be the same person when you wake up?

G.S. Jennsen

#49. Finding a good script is really difficult and the scariest thing of all is when they say about a script that's not right, "we will fix it.." It's like before you get on the Titanic and you see a big hole. In process, it's too late.

Robin Williams

#50. The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then.

Denzel Washington

#51. There are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this
and most often when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than too late

Charles Bukowski

#52. Mr. Frimpong is the oldest person from church. That's when I knew why he sings louder than anybody else: it's because he's been waiting the longest for God to answer. He thinks God has forgotten him. I only knew it then. Then I loved him but it was too late to go back.

Stephen Kelman

#53. I'm giving you that chance now. (Stryker)
It's too late. Too many centuries have passed. There was a time when I lived only to hear a kind word from your lips. But that ship sank under an assault of bitterness that no amount of charm or guile will recover. (Zephyra)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#54. It's too late Savannah, you already let Carlos grow into a full-grown dog. You should have trained his ass when he was a puppy, when the pussy was still new to him. Now, now he's gonna continue to shit in the house no matter how many times you rub his nose into it.

Fabiola Joseph

#55. If you're looking for friends when you need them ... it's too late.

Mark Twain

#56. It's never too late to do anything new when it comes to music.

Sivamani

#57. Often when we realize how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realize too late.

Cecelia Ahern

#58. I want to know who I am before it is too late - before I am no longer the same person - before I become someone different. Although there are days when this seems a furious race against time, there are others when it seems to matter not a tinker's curse.

Alan Bradley

#59. I loved you, Jim. I loved you with all my heart. And you left me. You left me when I needed you the most. It's too late, it's too late. You can't come back.

Richard Paul Evans

#60. There is this sweet spot in time when we have an opportunity to stop killing sharks and tunas and swordfish and other wildlife in the sea before it's too late.

Sylvia Earle

#61. When you are around 60, there are certain things that are completely terrifying. One of them is that you have made the wrong choices in life, and now it's too late to do anything about them.

Henning Mankell

#62. When opportunity comes, it's too late to prepare.

John Wooden

#63. I love not rushing the process. Mind doesn't shift until it does, and when it does shift, it's right on time, not one second too late or too soon. People are like seeds waiting to sprout. We can't be pushed ahead of our own understanding.

Byron Katie

#64. It would be better for you if you were not my friend."
"It's too late for that," I told her.

Catherine M. Wilson

#65. When you're young, you think you can handle anything. By the time you find out otherwise, it's already too late. You got a stocking wrapped around your neck.

Haruki Murakami

#66. 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

#67. Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend. It would look ridiculous to do what we're doing now when I'm 40. That's why I want to destroy my career before it's too late.

Kurt Cobain

#68. Time. It takes control over us and when we realize this, it's often too late. That's again the power of time. See? It's sort of a vicious circle. Take control of your precious time and live life to the fullest.

Tessa Vanluchene

#69. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late, but it's the first thing I think of when I wake, and the last thing I think of before I fall asleep, even if J. is in my bed. She should understand, the artist lives in two worlds.

David Mitchell

#70. When you're thirsty, it's too late to think about digging a well.

Harvey MacKay

#71. Gethen shouted threats as they left, but the warnings were as empty as his sandy cell. His final words to Keefe were the only ones with any impact. "You're choosing the wrong side, boy. You'll regret it when you see your mother's vision realized. But then it'll be too late.

Shannon Messenger

#72. Love never comes when you're ready for it... As soon as you're ready for it, it's too late, and it's gone.

Katherine Marple

#73. Our inner selves go on without us sometimes, trusting we'll catch on eventually. Sometimes it's too late when we do - too late to let the other person know what we've learned.

Meredith Marple

#74. There are moments when it's too quiet. Particularly late at night or early in the mornings. That's when you know there's something lacking in your life. You just know.

Frank Sinatra

#75. With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.

Octavia E. Butler

#76. I feel very proud to be Mexican. I didn't have the opportunity to learn Spanish when I was a girl, but ... it's never too late to get in touch with your roots.

Selena

#77. So here I am, alone."
"You're not alone."
"When you're facing death, you're alone."
I grab Jenna by the shoulders. "Here's a news flash for you. We all face death. We all walk alone. The only difference is most of us don't know how close we are to it until it's too late.

Lisa Mondello

#78. This is the kind of thing that you wonder about when you make things up for a living. I remain unconvinced that it is the kind of activity that is a fit occupation for an adult, but it's too late now: I seem to have a career that I enjoy which doesn't involve getting up too early in the morning.

Neil Gaiman

#79. You asked Marco Rubio if it was too little too late. I think there's a little bit of too much too late, which is, he is just getting down in the muck with Donald Trump. And when you get down in the muck, you get up with muck on you.

Bernie Sanders

#80. Oh dear me - it's too late to do anything but accept you and love you - but when you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush" just once!

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

#81. We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.

George Harrison

#82. It's difficult to know which second among a lifetime of seconds is more special. Often when you realise how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realise too late.

Cecelia Ahern

#83. Have you noticed that if you really want something, you can make it happen? But you need to be sure it's what you really want, because sometimes, when it comes true, you realize too late that it's not what you wanted. Not at all.

Laura Resau

#84. It's difficult to know when love blooms; suddenly one day you wake up and it's in full flower. It works the same way when it wilts - one day it is just too late.

Fredrik Backman

#85. There comes a point when you're writing a novel when you're in it so deep that the life of the novel becomes more real to you than life itself. You have to write your way out of it; once you're there, it's too late to abandon.

Hanya Yanagihara

#86. The flesh is that voice in your head that tells you, "If it feels good do it." It tells us that we need things when we don't, and if we followed it we'd sleep too late, eat too much, and eventually come to poverty. That's where the heart wants to lead us.

Darlene Schacht

#87. 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

#88. When thoughts tell you it's too late, dismiss them. You haven't dreamed your best dream. You haven't run your best race.

Joel Osteen

#89. It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It's also something you never forget once you learn.

Samantha Stosur

#90. Maybe that's the problem with generations. You start to forget what it was like when you were like them, so they become your enemy and you become theirs and nobody understands each other. Then you die and they become you and finally, finally they understand, but by then it's too late.

Chuck Wendig

#91. It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.

Lewis Carroll

#92. You don't get a choice in who you love, because often when you realize that you're in love, it's far too late to choose.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#93. The Beast is an animal You'd better lock the Gate Or when it's dark, It comes for you Then it will be too late The

Peternelle Van Arsdale

#94. Wasn't it beautiful when you believed in everything?

Taylor Swift

#95. ...and who's to say what would have been for the best? You only found out afterwards, when it was too late.

Julian Barnes

#96. But I'd rather look back and regret something I did when I was young and crazy, than look back and regret something I never had the courage to do, and realize it's too late.

Cherrie Lynn

#97. You know, it's tragic how blind we can be to the really good guys because they don't fit this ideal image of what we think we want, and when we do figure it out, it's pretty much too late.

Jaycee DeLorenzo

#98. 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

#99. Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#100. The thing about plummetting downhill at fifty miles an hour on a snack platter - if you realize it's a bad idea when you're halfway down, it's too late.

Rick Riordan