A life postponed too long might never be lived.

“You didn't save my life, you postponed my death. There's a difference.”

— Kalayna Price

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

It doesn't matter how long you lived, but it does matter how you lived.

— Chagai Anastasia

“Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn’t.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again

— John Zerzan

They lived long that have lived well.

— Woodrow Wilson

“An effective life is not determined by how long you lived”

— Sunday Adelaja

After all, you’re only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived.

— Simon R. Green

The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and…

— Michel de Montaigne

“A life that chooses not to grow is a life that died long before it ever lived.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

How long have we both lived for the same style, I would die for what I can do, I would die for what you…

— Jonny Craig

I come from a very wiry and long-lived race. Some of my ancestors have been centenarians, and one of them lived 129 years. I…

— Nikola Tesla

“It's not how long but how well you lived which matters.”

— Krishna Saagar

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

— Anonymous