Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

He who will not when he may, may not when he will.

Every day you waste is one you can never make up.

Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.

There’s only two times in life, there’s now and there’s too late.

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 it is finally tackled with energy and received with joy. Or is there no such thing as "too late"? Is there only "late," and is "late" always better than "never"? I don't know.

Lost time is never found again.

I missed the boat when I was doing Late Night.

Time and tide wait for no man.

Or is there no such thing as 'too late'? Is there only 'late' and is 'late' always better than 'never'? I don't know.

When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may come again. But the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits

There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.

What a terrible thing, I thought, to let a moment go.

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused

Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].

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.

There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

Remember that lost time does not return.

How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

A little too late, is much too late.

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

Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.