Late Quotes
3086 Late quotes by 2191 unique authors
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Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor…
— Christina Rossetti
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It's too late to apologize for I have already forgiven you." -FitzChivalry Farseer
— Robin Hobb
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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.…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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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…
— Bernhard Schlink
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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…
— Colm Toibin
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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…
— Milan Kundera
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Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but…
— Stephen King
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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…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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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…
— Jack Kerouac
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In referring to her earlier statement that he had was not her type because he was "a dollar short when it came to maturity and…
— Tom Robbins
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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…
— Libba Bray
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It's only life. We all get through it. Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way, some lose their…
— Dean Koontz
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It was an overcast late November morning, the grass splintered by hoarfrost, and winter grinning through the gaps in the clouds like a bad clown…
— John Connolly
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He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on…
— Cormac McCarthy
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The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and…
— Anne Ursu
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A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep…
— Dean Koontz
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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.…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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Suddenly I realize that this is what I've been waiting for - a man who depends entirely on me... I dreamed for years of a…
— Jodi Picoult
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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…
— E. M. Forster
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Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what…
— Khaled Hosseini
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Yes, I am a pirate two hundred years too late.
— Jimmy Buffett
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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;…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable. The light that…
— Neil Gaiman
Who Wrote These Late Quotes
2,191 authors contributed a total of 3,086 Late Quotes, led by these top contributors: