A Quote by Edna Ferber

It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.

Edna Ferber

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Edna Ferber
American - Novelist
August 15, 1885 - April 16, 1968

It's terrible to realize that you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die; and, then it's too late.

Edna Ferber

I pray that we will not wait until we are ready to die before we truly learn to live.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Often when we realize how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realize too late.

Cecelia Ahern

Damn you!" Dagenham raged, "Don't you realize that you can't trust people? They don't know enough for their own good." "Then let them learn or die. We're all in this together. Let's live or die together.

Alfred Bester

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

Charles de Lint

Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it's much too late.

Lev Grossman

You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.

Anthony de Mello

All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.

Seth Godin

I live my life until I start the cycle of my dreams, then I leave and search for you until I die. When I come back, I live to remember. I live to find you.

Molly Bryant

If you wait until you are ready, it is almost certainly too late.

Seth Godin

Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do.

John Denham

Any time a boy is ready to learn about guns is the time he’s ready, no matter how young he is, and you can’t start too young to learn how to be careful.

Robert Ruark

If you are ready to die, then you are ready to live.

Rickson Gracie

The trick to education is to teach people in such a way that they don’t realize they’re learning until it’s too late.

Harold Eugene Edgerton

Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure When long delay has given the evil strength. Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow He'll be less ready who's not ready now.