Philip Roth Quotes

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

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.

The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

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.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

History punishes those who come too late.

If I have written too polemically, it is only because of the passionate concern that we consider because it is too late whether we truly know what we are doing.

Rod Carew told me once that for those that know you, no explanation is necessary, and for those that don't know you, none is possible. That's the philosophy I live by.

If I got a beating for something, I usually deserved it.

I've learned a lot from the investigations and the trial. It's all my fault.

Hindsight does always serve the purpose of putting you in the right, and if you don't have it, you find yourself very often in the wrong.

I can't go back and change how many tackles I had, how many picks. What I've done is what I've done.

I try not to look back on my life and be regretful.

He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.

I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life.

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.

We only have the past that we have. Not all of our deeds were incorrect.

Hell itself is truth known too late

The whole point of life is learning to live with the consequences of the bad decision we've made.

Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.

I don't really regret much. I know there are things that I've done that have been wrong, and wish I could do over again, but I feel it's all made me who I am today, and I'm very thankful for that.

But it was too late now. A lifetime too late. A million wishes too late.

Nobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.

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

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.