J. C. Ryle Quotes

It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.

This is one doodle that can't be un-did, Homeskillet.

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.

He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love.

There's mistakes that I have made. Some chances I just threw away. Some roads I never should've taken. Been some signs I didn't see. Hearts that I hurt needlessly. Some wounds that I wish I could have one more chance to mend, but it don't make no difference: The past can't be rewritten. You get the life you're given.

Sooner or later usually means too late

You know, a few months ago, I made a terrible mistake. I realized something, and instead of crushing the thought the moment it came I... I let it hang on, and now I know it to be true. And I'm afraid it's stuck in my head forever. These are the best days of our lives. It's a terrible thing to know, but I know it.

Too early seen unknown, and known too late!

That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.

You're working with other people and sometimes it doesn't work out the way you want, and sometimes you didn't realise what a mistake you've made until you see it projected.

But what had happened, had happened, and it was no longer possible to right anything.

It's always too late for sorries, but I appreciate the sentiment.

I wish I could turn back time, but I can't. I made a stupid decision because I thought I was invincible, and I'll pay for it the rest of my life.

I have tried," I said, "but he does not believe me. It is too late for that now" (it is always too late for truth, I thought).

Very early in my life it was too late.

...life is in Fate's hands now. You made your choice to stay... it's too late to change that, so stop agonizing over it.... You're making my scales itch. Saphira, from "Eragon

Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.

If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.

I find poignancy in the moments when a person realizes that she has made mistakes. I am not as interested in the mistakes themselves as I am with the consequences and how the person responds to her realization.

Accept life, and you must accept regret.

What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again

As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel.

We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.