…he'd spent his whole life trying in vain to find a place…

“Having spent my life trying to fit the will of others, I was unable to distinguish between what I enjoyed and what I thought…

— David Sedaris

I spent my life trying to cure myself of my education.

— Federico Fellini

My name, I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone.

— Joe Paterno

“While most of humanity was scrabbling for a piece of bread,a roof over their head and a job that would allow them to live…

— Paulo Coelho

I've spent my whole life trying to find out who I am, so I could express that through the music.

— Neil Diamond

“But look at the aspirations of that rabbit and look at his failing. A little life trying. And all the time it was hopeless.…

— Philip K. Dick

First and foremost, I am a writer. That's what I have spent my life doing.

— Gyles Brandreth

I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.

— Anonymous

I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about…

— Stephen Greenblatt

“you’ve spent so much of your life doing what others expect of you. i think it’s time you start doing things for yourself.”

— Kiana Azizian

It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.

— Don DeLillo

“I’d spent my life until now as a cog in one person’s machine – could I turn around and become the instrument of another.”

— Meagan Spooner

I spent much of my life hiding.

— Kevyn Aucoin

I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.”

— Deanna L. Lawlis