Late Quotes

“How did it get so late so soon?”
― Dr. Seuss

“How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?”
― Dr. Seuss

“I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.”
― E. V. Lucas

“You're late."

"Sorry. I was busy talking about my feelings and killing people.”
― Jennifer Estep, Spider's Bite

“Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

“People who are chronically tardy never understand the many ways in which they screw up the schedules of people who are punctual and 'normal'...”
― Lauren Kate, Fallen

“A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever.”
― Shigeru Miyamoto

“And you're late."
"I prefer chronologically challenged.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Cruel Crown

“Magnus deeply disliked people who were early to business meetings. It was just as bad as being late, since it put everyone out, and even worse, people who were early always acted terribly superior about their bad timekeeping skills. They acted as though it were morally more righteous to get up early than to stay up late, even if you got the same amount of work done in the exact same amount of time. Magnus found it to be one of the great injustices of life.”
― cassandra clare, What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything

“It is too late."

The old man shook his head. "It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be."

He smiled. "There is a plan, Dor.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“It ought to be plain how little you gain
by getting excited and vexed.
You'll always be late for the previous train,
and always on time for the next.”
― Piet Hein

“It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one of life's joys.”
― Benedict Cumberbatch

“He's not safe. He's the shark-infested deep end of the sea and if I agree to go out with him, I'd be walking the plank, right off the boat and into his dark depth. How am I supposed to do that when I don't even know if I can swim?”
― Colleen Hoover, Too Late

“Sorry I'm late," Ms. Egami said to the class. She dropped her papers, which scattered in that special way papers do when one is running late.”
― Adam Rex, Cold Cereal

“our present tense
was not too late”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“She had managed to go almost three weeks without being late. Admittedly on two of those days she'd perambulated around the office like someone doing a good imitation of the walking dead - but she'd been timely walking dead, damn it.”
― Michelle Sagara West, Cast in Peril

“Often, it’s hard to identify an economic event risk until it's too late.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“That's the funny thing about old people: they never seem in a hurry. I think old people have figured out that being five minutes late really doesn't matter much.”
― Shannon Wiersbitzky, What Flowers Remember

“At SpaceX, we specialize in converting things from impossible to late.”
― Elon Musk

“Whoever said 'better late than never' knows it's necessity.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“We are hurried, not by what is happening, but by what we are desiring.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Nothing is like before. Everything is kind of late.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“I want to scream sometimes, because I hate when people refer to a dead person as the “late” so and so. I’m sorry to break that bad news, but that person isn’t just late—they’re not even coming!”
― Jarod Kintz, There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

“How perfect to be aboard a ship with maybe a hundred years still in my pocket, but it's late for all of us. And in truth, the only ship there is, is the ship we are all on, burning the world as we go.”
― Mary Oliver, Dog Songs: Poems

“I'm running late, but there's always time to scribble weird messages in guest signage books. Also, am I really late? The Catholic Church added a thousand years to history, so I figure I'm actually way ahead of schedule.”
― Jarod Kintz, Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast

“The future hasn’t come. And when it arrives, it will be the present. Think about that next time you’re late.”
― Jarod Kintz, Powdered Saxophone Music

“I enjoy being late for what I want and in time for what you need.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Some folks are predictably unpredictable.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose