A Quote by Franz Werfel

Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment. — © Franz Werfel
Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.
We live, understandably enough, with the sense of urgency; our clock, like Baudelaire's, has had the hands removed and bears the legend, "It is later than you think." But with us it is always a little too late for mind, yet never too late for honest stupidity; always a little too late for understanding, never too late for righteous, bewildered wrath; always too late for thought, never too late for naïve moralizing. We seem to like to condemn our finest but not our worst qualities by pitting them against the exigency of time.
I feel that I'm leaving Williamstown too early, but I'd rather leave too early than too late.
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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.
Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. It’s a relation of self to the moment. Or not, depending on the person and the moment. Perhaps there even comes a time when it’s no longer too late for anything. Perhaps, even, most times are too early for most things, and most of life has to go by before it’s time for almost anything and too late for almost nothing. Nothing to lose, the present moment to gain, the integration with long-delayed Now.
There’s only one moment in which you can arrive in time. If you’re not there, you’re either too early or too late.
Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s too big, the desk’s too small, there’s too much noise, there’s too much quiet, it’s too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start.
It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.
God is never too late, nor too early, but just on time.
It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.
It matters only that you manifest your genius; it doesn’t matter when. It’s never too late or too early.
It’s never too early or too late to benefit beings.
Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.
I don't want to peak too early. The worry is that you never know until it's all over whether you peaked at all - and then you're finished and it's too late.
It's not the side-effects of the cocaine - I'm thinking that it must be love. It's too late to be grateful, It's too late to be hateful, It's too late to be late again, The European cannon is here.
A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
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