Late Quotes
3086 Late quotes by 2191 unique authors
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NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the…
— Gaston Bachelard
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Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear…
— Bram Stoker
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Very early in my life it was too late.
— Marguerite Duras
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...quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love…
— Joan Didion
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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy…
— J D Salinger
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Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must've hit a window. Calvin: Isn't it beautiful? It's so delicate. Sighhh... once it's too late, you appreciate…
— Bill Watterson
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How did it get so late so soon?
— Dr. Seuss
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The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past,…
— Harlan Ellison
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You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.' —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is…
— Bob Dylan
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R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being, and not being more than,…
— Douglas Adams
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Why should I blame her that she filled my days With misery, or that she would of late Have taught to ignorant men most violent…
— William Butler Yeats
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The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce…
— Tom Robbins
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Early bird Oh, if you’re a bird, be an early bird And catch the worm for your breakfast plate. If you’re a bird, be an…
— Shel Silverstein
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A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night
— James Patterson
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A feeling of disquiet continues to haunt me. As a youth one dreams of love; by the time one wakes, it is too late.
— Sandra Gulland
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A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying…
— Daniel Handler
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Well, it was most likely too late; there would not be time for me to flagellate myself for every dishonorable deed in that list, nor…
— Clive Barker
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I staggered into a Manchester bar late one night on a tour and the waitress said "You look as if you need a Screaming Orgasm".…
— Terry Pratchett
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I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the…
— Amy Tan
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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…
— Charles Bukowski
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We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses…
— Edward R. Murrow
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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and…
— Joseph Campbell
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In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed so obvious now…
— Ian Mcewan
Who Wrote These Late Quotes
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