The Hour Is Late Quotes

#1. And the years came and went, the decades. But now it's no longer possible to put it off any more: either now or never. The one final opportunity must be taken, for the hour is late and nobody will come upon me.

Ivan Bunin

#2. god bless the shape your head leaves in my pillow; god bless your insatiable hair; god bless you, though the hour is late, for you have come to me at last.

Neil Hilborn

#3. There is also a tradition about Socrates. He liked walking, it is recorded, until a late hour of the evening, and when someone asked him why he did this he said he was trying to work up an appetite for his dinner.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#4. I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality.

John Kennedy Toole

#5. I believe, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., that there is such a thing as being too late, and when it comes to climate change, that hour is almost upon us.

Barack Obama

#6. It was early, late, lockjaw hour.

Sam Lipsyte

#7. Listen
my love
the hour
is late
my side
has an
ache
If
you don't
get a
taxi
my heart
will break

Norman Mailer

#8. All the historians agree that the arrest of Jesus took place in the Garden of Gethsemane at a late hour on the evening immediately preceding the day of the Crucifixion, and there is strong justification for believing that it could not possibly have been earlier than eleven-thirty.

Frank Morrison

#9. Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.

Bob Dylan

#10. Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.

Mark Strand

#11. The late Dr. [David] Bogue is reported to have one day said to some of his students, "Do you suppose that people have nothing to do but to listen to your emptiness by the hour?"-William Jay

George Redford

#12. The late hour is such a friend; it has been for so many years. There is not a soul around as I carry Riley downstairs and dump him in my trunk. It is good, for I am not in the mood to kill again, and murder, for me, is very much tied to my mood, like making love. Even when it is necessary.

Christopher Pike

#13. It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!

Emily Eden

#14. The clock of time is wound but once
And no one has the power
To tell just when the hands will stop,
Of late or early hour.

The present only is our own,
The past a golden link.
Go cruising now my friend -
It is later than you think.

Unknown Adaptor

#15. His hands struck her any hour of the day, like hands that strike a clock, whether early, whether late; they strike, they strike.

Anthony Liccione

#16. I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it), ...

Stephen King

#17. There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.

H.L. Mencken

#18. The plain fact is religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge in having key deciscions made by religious people. By irrationalists. By those who would steer the ship of state, not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken.

Bill Maher

#19. We are all bits and pieces of history and literature and international law, Byron, Tom Paine, Machiavelli or Christ, it's here. And the hour's late. And the war's begun. And we are out here, and the city is there, all wrapped up in its own coat of a thousand colors.

Ray Bradbury

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

Stephen Leacock

#21. And that was always my father's favorite part about shooting as well. Often my dad would shoot very, very late, he was quite a workaholic, they would do 20, 20-hour shoots and stuff like that.

Brian Henson

#22. It's early spring, some late or early hour with Orion toppling backward onto the serrated edge of the mountains and not crying out but silent, silent as he tries to shoot the bull before it tramples him. Sometimes he is very peaceful not tonight. Tonight he is fighting for his life.

Peter Heller

#23. It is quiet, and when the belling tower strikes the late hour, it doesn't break the silence so much as it underpins it.

Patrick Rothfuss

#24. Ere we had reach'd the wish'd-for place, night fell: We were too late at least by one dark hour,

William Wordsworth