Top 100 Too Soon Sayings
#1. Magnus got to his feet. "I do believe that's my cue to leave as well," he said. Clary noticed he was avoiding looking at Alec. "I'd say it's been nice meeting you all, but, in fact, it hasn't. It's been quite awkward, and frankly, the next time I see a single one of you will be far too soon.
Cassandra Clare
#2. You'll learn all too soon, Gibben Nemesio, that youth is fleeting. Immaturity, however, can be nurtured for a lifetime.
Shiriluna Nott
#4. In the last 48 hours King Abdullah from Saudi Arabia passed away. I have a moral dilemma. The king passed away three or four days ago. Is it too soon to hit on Queen Latifah?
David Letterman
#5. I can't sleep alone anymore
and I get used to
company
too quickly. You're always gone too soon.
Charlotte Eriksson
#6. As an adult, I know about life and death. I know that good people can die too soon and bad ones can live too long. I know that life's not fair, and you take the bitter with the sweet and balance it all as best you can.
Elsie Hillman-Gordon
#8. A good romance novel is like a bubble bath...steamy, relaxing, and over way too soon.
Donna Marie Rogers
#10. These rotary dials were like meditation, they forced you to slow down and concentrate. If you polled the next number too soon, you had to start over from the top.
Rainbow Rowell
#11. I know it's too soon right now," he murmured into my hair, "but just so you know, I'll wait. When you're ready, I'll be right here. Don't forget, Princess."
-Puck
Julie Kagawa
#13. It's never too soon to worry. Worry spurs preparation.
Laini Taylor
#14. All too soon this body
Will lie on the ground,
Cast aside, deprived of consciousness,
Like a useless scrap of wood.
Gautama Buddha
#16. Marriage is like a long conversation that always ends too soon.
Cassandra Clare
#17. Patience. I colored patience gray, hung over with black clouds. I colored hope yellow, just like the sun we could see for a few short morning hours. Too soon the sun rose high in the sky & disappeared from view, leaving us bereft and staring at blue.
V.C. Andrews
#18. He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#19. I wanted to tell you everything. And that hurt because some things were too scary. Some things even I didn't understand. How could I tell someone - someone I was really talking to for the first time - everything I was thinking? I couldn't. It was too soon.
Jay Asher
#20. Like the baby bird that flies the nest too soon, because it can't comprehend anything better to do. Freedom is still freedom, even when it ends in a suicide song.
Anonymous
#21. Don't let go too soon, but don't hold on too long.
Mitch Albom
#22. I went public too soon. Stay private as long as you can.
Bill Gates
#23. She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.
Cecelia Ahern
#24. I have loved badly, loved the great Too soon, withdrawn my words too late; And eaten in an echoing hall Alone and from a chipped plate The words that I withdrew too late.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#25. I think that timing is everything. At first, it was too soon. And then, the time was right, but I was busy with other things, and the cast was busy with other things. By the time we sat down to work on the movie, enough time had passed that suddenly a different story emerged.
Mitchell Hurwitz
#26. Marcail sank onto the large slab of rock and let her head drop into her hands. She had known her time with Quinn would be short, she just never expected him to be gone so soon. Too soon.
Donna Grant
#27. Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.
Katharine Anthony
#28. I have fallen in love with you, and there is no future for us. That you burst into my life suddenly only a short time ago. That it's too fast, too soon, and you will leave the same way you came into my life. I'll turn around one day and you'll be gone.
Rachel Gibson
#29. The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There's no sense in trying.
Bob Dylan
#30. You know what I mean? Real and unreal, beautiful and strange, like a dream. It got me high as a kite, but it didn't last long enough. It ended too soon and left nothing behind."
That's how it is with dreams," said Priscilla. "They're the perfect crime.
Tom Robbins
#31. And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone.
Terry Pratchett
#32. Because the space race is over
And I can't help but feel that we've all grown up too soon.
- The Space Race Is Over
Billy Bragg
#33. It is too soon to tell, but old, tired 'Survivor' last night beat 'X Factor.' We're really proud of that. We're anticipating a very strong season for CBS.
Leslie Moonves
#34. Is it too soon for me to put aside money for your kid's college education in order to thank him for helpin' me drag his mother's head outta her ass?
Kristen Ashley
#35. In childhood the daylight always fails too soon
except when there are going to be fireworks;
Jan Struther
#36. Every jock gets up and tells the world how lucky he is. But I feel that I may be the luckiest one of all in terms of timing and being at the right place at the right moment-even though, for the last 30 years, I was told I was born 20 years too soon, for obvious reasons.
Bob Cousy
#37. The Pashton took revenge after twenty years and another said it was taken too soon.
Malala Yousafzai
#38. If you've never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity, plug it into an amplifier and rethink yourself.
Buddy Wakefield
#39. I know how you love this place, he says to me, apologetically yet with satisfaction. And I don't tell him that I am not sure now whether I love any place, and that it seems to me it was myself I loved here - some self that I have finished with, and none too soon.
Alice Munro
#40. Women who routinely have orgasm in intercourse without explicit clitoral stimulation all say that it makes little difference what the guy does, as long as he doesn't come too soon,
Mary Roach
#41. We like it the way it is. We're enjoying the oscillating balances, the ongoing war between good and evil, the wonderful small triumphs of the soul. Perhaps it's too soon to end all that. Perhaps we need some more time to think things out.
Mark Helprin
#43. Scripture tells us to run with endurance the race that is set before us. As we do, may God hold close those who have been taken from us too soon.
Barack Obama
#44. 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
#45. No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country.
Daniel Webster
#46. My uncle told a great story with his life, but I think there was such a sadness at his funeral because his story wasn't finished. If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died. But my uncle died too soon.
Donald Miller
#47. People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Francis Bacon
#48. It always feels too soon to leap. But you have to. Because that's the moment between you and remarkable.
Seth Godin
#49. Don't be afraid of emptiness. Emptiness is divine. Let the divine fill up the space in a way that is truly right for you. Trying to fill it up too soon blocks your gifts.
Renae A. Sauter
#50. Reading without taking notes, or high lighting your book will allow you to forget too soon. Lesson are so when they leave a mark.
Richard Morin
#51. I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things.
Leighton Meester
#52. But always too soon, right after a fleeting moment of hope, the floor opens up and I sink to the bottom again.
Natalie Taylor
#53. I never had any flesh and blood children, you know. Only words, and paintings, and images of light that flickered in the darkness, and were too soon over.
Neil Gaiman
#54. I'm so sad to hear the horrible news of Amy Winehouse's death. I'm so happy I knew you Amy ... Rest Well. Gone Too Soon ... we'll miss you!!
Usher
#55. In the first dawning of my youth, I begged of Thee chastity, but by halves, miserable wretch that I am; I said, "Give me chastity, but not yet," afraid that Thou tightest hear me too soon, and heal me of the disease which I wished to have satisfied rather than cured.
Augustine Of Hippo
#56. If youth is a defect, it is one that we outgrow too soon.
Robert Lowell
#57. The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon.
Pearl S. Buck
#58. I've come to think you only get so much bravery in one lifetime and if you spend it too soon, you're all out of fuck it all to hell by the time you really need it.
Catherynne M Valente
#59. Look for the possibilities... rather than... locking doors too soon that might in time have opened.
Aleksandra Layland
#60. The adventurous part of me was looking forward to getting out into the world, meeting new people, trying new things. But another part of me was thinking that it was just too soon. Why couldn't everything stay the same for a little while longer?
Catherine Hapka
#61. Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who That it's namin' For the loser now Will be later to win For the times they are a-changin'.
Bob Dylan
#62. Ah, ah, no buts. You've just returned to us and it is too soon to express whatever doubts you undoubtedly have with that most cowardly of words, that qualifier of qualifiers, but.
Frank Beddor
#63. [My] excursions provided a unique opportunity for observing [the gorillas' behavior] in their natural habitat ... Then, all too soon, the infants were demanded for their trip to the zoo ... [H]appily the babies did not know they would never see their mountain home again
Dian Fossey
#64. One of the great dangers of transformational work is that the ego attempts to sidestep deep psychological work by leaping into the transcendent too soon. This is because the ego always fancies itself much more 'advanced' than it actually is.
Don Richard Riso
#65. We give up too easily. We give up too soon. We quit praying right before the miracle happens.
Mark Batterson
#66. We were too greedy, grasping for immortality too soon. Perhaps if we had only been patient, content to wait, we would all have forever in the end.
Jessica Khoury
#67. What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
Jane Austen
#68. Does anybody know how to hold my heart
How to hold my heart?
'Cause I don't want to let go, let go, let go too soon
I want to tell you so before the sun goes dark
How to hold my heart
'Cause I don't want to let go, let go, let go of you
Sara Bareilles
#69. Seve was one of the most talented and exciting golfers to ever play the game. His creativity and inventiveness on the golf course may never be surpassed. His death came much too soon.
Tiger Woods
#70. Sweet it was, sweet and gone too soon. Dawn came cruel, a dagger of light.
George R R Martin
#71. It's better to stay too long than to leave too soon.
Julius Erving
#72. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.
Joan Didion
#73. And so I was left with a mantra, a sort of haiku version of our relationship: I don't regret one day I spent with him, nor did I leave a moment too soon.
Padma Lakshmi
#74. Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it ... it's just easier if you do.
Byron Katie
#75. To the dead. Let's think of them always, but not join them too soon.
Richard Kadrey
#76. Moving is both liberating and debilitating. Undertaken too late, it is a very stressful process, one that sometimes seems to catapult people into frail old age, and undertaken too soon, it may preempt other possibilities. [p. 38]
Mary Catherine Bateson
#77. Now that the space race is over and I can't help but feel that we have all grown up too soon.
Billy Bragg
#78. A learned man came to me once. He said, "I know the way,
come." And I was overjoyed at this. Together we hastened. Soon, too soon, were we Where my eyes were useless, And I knew not the ways of my feet. I clung to the hand of my friend; But at last he cried, "I am lost.
Stephen Crane
#79. Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
Dorothea Lange
#80. 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
#81. Isn't it always unfair - death always a kind of outrage? A life ended too soon with jagged and torn edges, a sentence incomplete.
Rebecca Stott
#82. God, what pathetic creatures had inherited the earth, to walk a little while with their eyes upon the stars and turn their gaze too soon upon the ground that held their feet!
Martha Ostenso
#83. It's always considered bad taste to comment on a tragedy right when it's happening, but I love when something is considered too soon to talk about because then you can blast past that social censorship to get into something real.
Margaret Cho
#84. Their little universe is very young, and its god is still a child. But it is too soon to judge
them; when We return in the Last Days, We will consider what should be saved.
Arthur C. Clarke
#85. Do not quit too soon. The future is bright like a shining diamond.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#86. Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#87. With a certain frustration I knew I spoke too soon, too urgently. I wanted to get out of the way the things I knew to say, wanted to say, the things I'd been thinking, all in the hope of moving into the unforeseen.
Denis Johnson
#88. The digital age was dragging older lawyers like the Boones into the world of paperless files and storage, and not a minute too soon ... Why destroy so many trees to produce much paper that becomes useless almost as fast as it is filed away?
John Grisham
#89. I liked Jim Morrison a lot as a person. He was this very poetic character, and death was always on his mind. And it showed up in his songs - I mean, almost every song he wrote had something to do with dying. He was an American treasure that went way too soon.
Alice Cooper
#90. I held the generous, strong, beautiful hand of my first wife Cassie as ovarian cancer took her life much too soon.
Pierce Brosnan
#91. If your short-term goals are too high, you may give up too soon. If your long-term goals are too low, they may not give you enough enthusiasm to drive you over the bumps in the road along the way.
Darren LaCroix
#92. Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.
Seth Godin
#93. Nothing can be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon and left one unexpended effort which might have saved the world.
Jane Addams
#95. There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.
Jonas Salk
#96. I think too many people edit themselves way too soon. There's plenty of time to edit, and it is a crucial part of it all, too.
Jill McCorkle
#97. I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.
Mackenzie Davis
#98. The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt the same about Shakespeare. We who came later have no chance. What fun to have been Adam, and to have had the whole world of plots and jokes and stories at one's disposal.
A.A. Milne
#99. I fear I have praised you too much too soon. Will I lose you in your shame of believing that you can never be what I think you are?
Kate McGahan
#100. It's always about timing. If it's too soon, no one understands. If it's too late, everyone's forgotten.
Anna Wintour
