Cecelia Ahern Quotes

If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.

The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.

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

In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see.

Sometimes, even the best of plans will occur to you when it is too late.

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment. I wasn't ready for that moment to end.

How did it get so late so soon?

Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell.

We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.

We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.

Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.

If I never have anything from him except this one moment I am going to take it. Take it now, or drown in regret later.

Before i knew the best part of my life had come ,it had gone.