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“Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber; it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! – and unfortunately' (speaking low and tremulously) 'there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.”

Source: Persuasion In Modern English

“After she left everything fell apart. No Jew was safe. There were rumors of unfathomable things, and because we couldn't fathom them we failed to believe them, until we had no choice and it was too late. p 8”

Believe Choices Left Safe Late Jew Too Late Rumor Fathom Unfathomable

Book:The History of Love: A Novel

Source: The History of Love: A Novel

“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.”

“It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now”

Late Too Late

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)

“IT was the time of day when Lake Eden residents decided it was too late for a breakfast cookie and too early for a lunch cookie.”

Late Decided Too Late Lakes Breakfast Lunch Cookies Eden Residents Time Of Day

Book:Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder

Source: Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder

“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.”

People Knows Shows Late Too Late

Author:P. D. James

“But the most dangerous thing in the world in the world is to run the risk of waking up one morning and realizing suddenly that all this time you've been living without really and truly living and by then it's too late. When you wake up to that kind of realization, it's too late for wishes and regrets. It's even too late to dream.”

World Kind Dream Running Wish Realizing Morning Risk Dangerous Regret Late Wake Up Realization Too Late Waking Dangerous Things Truly Living

Author:Kinky Friedman

“Too late. It's hatched.”

Late Too Late

Author:Christopher Paolini

“I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome. "Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?" I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him.”

Ifs Knows Heart Said Hands Might Happens Romance Chance Space Silence Steps My Heart Late Okay Breaths Outcomes Too Late Closing Space Between

Book:The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!”

Giving Pleasure Fate Rights Late Curse Too Late Swear Hurtful

Author:Ivan Turgenev

“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action.”

Facts Motivational Today Action Tomorrow Late Too Late Apathy Fierce Complacency Urgency Unfolding Vigorous Sense Of Urgency Conundrums Before It's Too Late

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.”

Realizing Late Too Late Fractions Before It's Too Late

Author:Ali Smith

“There is no such thing as 'too late' in life.”

Life Late Too Late

Author:Mitch Albom

“you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret”

Life Inspirational Giving Secret Late Depth Too Late Hoe

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late.”

Late Errors Outcomes Too Late Apathy

Author:G. Edward Griffin

“We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.”

Stills Facts Today Written Tomorrow Civilization Late My Friends Bones Too Late Thieves Procrastination Pathetic Lost Opportunity Dejected

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.”

Life Life Is Purpose Knowledge Regret Late Logic Mysterious Too Late Arrangements Crops

Book:Heart of Darkness and Other Stories

Source: Heart of Darkness and Other Stories

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

Doe Late Too Late Mediocrity Temper Bondage Human Bondage

Book:Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)

Source: Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)

“For we did makeup. But we didn't forgive each other. And we didn't take steps. And it got to be too late and we saw that each of us had invested too much in being in the right and we walked away and it was a relief.”

Steps Saws Too Much Late Forgiving Relief Too Late Makeup

Book:The love of a good woman: stories

Source: The love of a good woman: stories

“Hey, if you'd wanted to avoid 'this,' you shouldn't have lured me last night. Now it's too late. You might as well avoid the long, drawn-out pain and get it over with quickly. Sort of like taking off a Band-Aid. Or cutting off a limb." "Wow, who says there's no romance left in the world?”

Ifs World Wells Long Might Wanted Pain Lasts Romance Night Left Cutting Band Late Aids Hey Too Late Wow Limbs Last Night Cutting Off Band Aid

Book:Succubus Blues

Source: Succubus Blues

“It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.”

Late Too Late Apologizing Forgiven

Author:Robin Hobb

“From Mother you will inherit the belief that you can journey to your fate, there's a place to be located on a map that's destiny. If only you can get there. If it isn't too late. If no one stops you.”

Ifs Mother Belief Destiny Fate Journey Late Too Late Maps

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“I thought that if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it's too late, even if it is finally tackled with energy and received with joy. Or is there no such thing as "too late"? Is there only "late," and is "late" always better than "never"? I don't know.”

Ifs Knows Long Joy Energy Late Too Late Right Time

Author:Bernhard Schlink

“As I settled down to sleep in that new bed in the dark city, I saw that it was too late now, too late for everything. I would not be given a second chance. In the hours when I woke, I have to tell you that this struck me almost with relief.”

Given Hours Dark Chance Sleep Cities Saws Bed Late Relief Too Late Second Chance Given A Second Chance Dark City

Book:The Empty Family: Stories

Source: The Empty Family: Stories

“Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, Sabina and Franz would have begun to understand the words they used. Gradually, timorously, their vocabularies would have come together, like bashful lovers, and the music of one would have begun to intersect with the music of the other. But it was too late now.”

Ifs Together Used Lovers Late Too Late Vocabulary Bashful

Author:Milan Kundera

“I know of no other practise which will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects. There is a great potential within each of us to go on learning. Regardless of our age, unless there be serious illness, we can read, study, drink in the writings of wonderful men and women. It is never too late to learn.”

“Our radio plays rhythm and blues as we pass the joint back and forth in jutjawed silence both looking ahead with big private thoughts now so vast we can't communicate them anymore and if we tried it would take a million years and a billion books - Too late, too late, the history of everything we've seen together and separately has become a library in itself - The shelves pile higher - They're full of misty documents or documents of the Mist-.”

“What happens if your choice is misguided, You must try to correct it But what if it’s too late? What if you can’t? Then you must find a way to live with it.”

Ifs Way Trying Happens Choices Late Too Late What If Way To Live Misguided

Book:The Gemma Doyle Trilogy

Source: The Gemma Doyle Trilogy

“For ten years I had been protected, wrapped up in something like a blanket that had been stitched together from all kinds of different things. But people never notice that warmth until after they've emerged. You don't even notice that you've been inside until it's too late for you ever to go back-- that's how perfect the temperature of that blanket is.”

People Years Kind Different Together Perfect Ten Late All Kinds Too Late Different Things Warmth Protected Temperature Blanket

Book:Goodbye Tsugumi

Source: Goodbye Tsugumi

“A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.”

Men Death Three Birth Late Unions Too Late Devices Funeral Register Baptism Clumsy Howards End

Book:Howards End

Source: Howards End

“Yes, I am a pirate two hundred years too late.”

Years Two Late Hundred Too Late Pirate

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony - forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?”

“It's not the side-effects of the cocaine - I'm thinking that it must be love. It's too late to be grateful, It's too late to be hateful, It's too late to be late again, The European cannon is here.”

Thinking Sides Effects Late Grateful Too Late Be Grateful Hateful Cocaine Cannons Side Effects

Author:David Bowie

“She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.”

Wells Heart Felt Animal Behinds Pieces Late Leaving Caught Too Late Trapped Cages Unwilling

Author:Jodi Picoult

“It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.”

People Knows World Moments Given This World Drug Late Wide Heal Too Late Rare Moments

Book:Babylon Revisited: And Other Stories

Source: Babylon Revisited: And Other Stories

“I should have kissed more than your hand...thought I'd have more time," he whispered between liquid, panting breaths. "...too late now." I looked into his eyes and completely forgot the rest of the world. In that moment, all I knew was that I was holding Stark in my arms, and I was going to lose him very, very soon.”

World Should Moments Hands Eye Loses Arms Late Should Have Breaths His Eyes Too Late That Moment More Time Liquid Starks House Of Night

Author:P. C. Cast

“Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.”

Inspirational Change Failing Late Transformation Changing The World Too Late Ingenious

Book:Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“I feel as if one would only discover on one's death-bed what one ought to have lived for, and realise too late that one's life has been wasted. Any passionate and courageous life seems good in itself, yet one feels that some element of delusion is involved in giving so much passion to any humanly attainable object. And so irony creeps into the very springs of one's being.”

Ifs Giving Feels Has Beens Seems Passion Objects Ought Involved Bed Elements Late Spring Passionate Irony Too Late Delusion Courageous Realising Creeps Death Bed

Book:The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

“Neville recommends at the end of every day, before you go to sleep, to think through the events of the day. If any events or moments did not go the way you wanted, replay them in your mind in a way that thrills you. As you recreate those events in your mind exactly as you want, you are cleaning up your frequency from the day and you are emitting a new signal and frequency for tomorrow. You have intentionally created new picture for your future. It is never too late to change the pictures.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Mind Ends Moments Wanted Sleep Events Tomorrow Late Too Late Signals Cleaning Your Future Frequency Going To Sleep Never Too Late Cleaning Up Replay

Book:The Secret

Source: The Secret

“I never meant to call you Mudblood, it just-" Lily: "Slipped out? It’s too late. I’ve made excuses for you for years. None of my friends can understand why I even talk to you. You and your precious little Death Eater friends ... You’ve chosen your way, I’ve chosen mine.”

Way Years Littles Made Mines Late My Friends Excuse Chosen Too Late Lilies Death Eaters

Author:J. K. Rowling

“The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.”

Source: The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith: Three Volumes Complete in One

“Mr. and Mrs. Darling and Nana rushed into the nursery too late. The birds were flown”

Late Bird Too Late Nurse Darling Nursery

Book:Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels

Source: Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels

“But as he reached the ground and sprinted towards the dais, Lupin grabbed Harry around the chest, holding him back. There's nothing you can do, Harry -' Get him, save him, he's only just gone through!' - it's too late, Harry.' We can still reach him -' Harry struggled hard and viciously, but Lupin would not let go... There's nothing you can do, Harry...nothing...he's gone.”

Stills Hard Can Do Gone Letting Go Late Too Late Chests

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Exhaustion was pressing upon and overpowering her. "Good-by--because I love you." He did not know; he did not understand. He would never understand. Perhaps Doctor Mandelet would have understood if she had seen him--but it was too late; the shore was far behind her, and her strength was gone. She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again.”

Ifs Knows Behinds Gone Love You Late Understood Doctors Distance Terror Instant Too Late Shore Exhaustion Overpowering

Book:CliffsComplete The Awakening

Source: CliffsComplete The Awakening

“There are stars in the night sky that look brighter than the others, and when you look at them through a telescope you realize you are looking at twins. The two stars rotate around each other, sometimes taking nearly a hundred years to do it. They create so much gravitational pull there's no room around for anything else. You might see a blue star, for example, and realize only later that it has a white dwarf as a companion - that first one shines so bright, by the time you notice the second one, it's too late.”

Source: My Sister's Keeper: A Novel

“I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.”

Way Late My Way Too Late Ripped

Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations. What we are being, not what we are to be. They are the same thing.”

Firsts Realizing Late Expectations Too Late

Author:Shirley Hazzard

“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.”

Moments Realizing Late Too Late Seconds Captured

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s too big, the desk’s too small, there’s too much noise, there’s too much quiet, it’s too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start.”

Writing Years Humans Bigs Too Much Cold Activity Quiet Late Hot Excuse Noise Too Late Desks Human Activity

Author:Robert Harris

“It's certainly not too late to change to the winning side. But you know, you also have the freedom to stay just where you are. That's what it means to be an American. That's the miracle of America. Freedom to believe means the freedom to believe the wrong thing, after all. Just as freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.”

Knows Giving Believe Mean America Winning Sides Speech Late Miracle Silent Too Late Where You Are Freedom Of Speech Wrong Things America Freedom What It Means To Be An American

Author:Neil Gaiman

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