Too Late Quotes

“It's always too late for sorries, but I appreciate the sentiment.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Truth that came too late was as useful as a meal to a dead man.”
― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves

“and that's where love finds you... in the tragedies.”
― Colleen Hoover, Too Late

“Love. Love is not found. Love finds”
― Colleen Hoover, Too Late

“He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape

“She sheltered her colors in the dark, where others were blind to see; I caught a glimpse of her lastly when she gave me a chance, before disappearing into the day. There was beauty locked in her that unfolded like an umbrella's claw, her true self that desired compassion, trust, protection and the potential to soar. But I missed to late, that what I wasn't looking for, when she left her reasons in the rain.”
― Anthony Liccione

“To jump over centuries
In one step is impossible.
Jump too high or far,
You’ll be way too late.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987

“You're all I see, Sloan. Beyond the job, beyond right and wrong. You're all I see.”
― Colleen Hoover, Too Late

“He thought of all the times he could have visited, and hadn't. All those missed opportunities to call. All those times he'd forgotten her birthday.”
― Robert Galbraith, Troubled Blood

“Everything in his life now seemed to signal: too late.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight

“At funerals, people say things about a dead person that they should have told them while they were still alive.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“If you need to hurry...you’re already too late.”
― Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars

“It burns,
I know.
It burns
now,
now that
the story is over,
now that
the daybreak is liquid,
now that
my knees don't creak anymore
and the leaves are blowing
and the highway is humming,
and a few extra pounds is not
a terminal diagnosis.
It burns
in me too
healing me
but the ache is not for you.
It's for my passion.
That used to be your name.
And it's sad, really.
The sting of
too little
too late.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

“This is love, he would have said, diffidence is love, fear itself is love, even the scorn you feel is love. Each of us comes by it the wrong way. Some spot it right away, others need years, and for some it comes in retrospect only.”
― André Aciman, Enigma Variations

“You say it's too late. In my opinion, only a thimbleful of situations in life are that dire. Death begins and ends that list. Everything else is simply an obstacle that must be dealt with.”
― Kathleen Baldwin, Refuge for Masterminds

“When you wait for the right time, you'll never know when it's already too late.”
― Udai Yadla

“There were things I wished I'd said
And done
But it is too late now
So I go
Heavy with my offering
This book, this book”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“You will realize you love me
But it will be too late

You will cry out for me
I will be long gone

This is not a wish
But what I knew to be so”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“It’s too late to correct it,” said the Red Queen: “when you’ve once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass And What Alice Found There

“Does that mean you're going to leave her alone now?'

Cardan leaned in close, close enough that I could feel his breath on my cheek. 'It's much too late for that.”
― Holly Black, The Lost Sisters

“A ghost has all the time to reach for love, but never can. As a person has little time to reach for love, and never does.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Every second wasted might have saved a life.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“We ignore what we are doing until it is too late to alter it. We never allow ourselves quite to focus upon moments of decision; and these are often in fact hard to find even if we are searching for them.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“We don't have to be anywhere. The party we left
and the one we were headed to are probably over.”
― James Richardson, By the Numbers

“It was too late to go back. There was a hand which could never, in grace and healing, be laid upon him now.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“Live a little or die a lot. The choice is hours.”
― Anthony Liccione

“All these questions and many more besides only occurred to me much, much later when there was no one left to ask.”
― Sally Gardner, I, Coriander

“After some point, it becomes too late to be early.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“There’s really no such thing as too late or too soon. Things happen when they’re meant to happen.

- The Devil”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“And finally, avoid the temptation to strike a pose and say "It's too late." It's not true. It's half-baked nihilism: and like all half-baked nihilism, it lazily temps us to think that what we do doesn't matter now. It does matter; it will always matter. The time to give up is never. Hope - active, purposeful, informed hope - is what we owe the world. A body of unimaginable splendor turns on its axis, calling us to its aid.”
― Katherine Rundell, Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures