You only spoke a single line, yet it felt like a life…

My whole life, I never spoke a single-word.

— Gautama Buddha

“If you could sum up your life in one sentence, then you didn’t live much of a life.”

— Carroll Bryant

“The human race is a life sentence...it's a rough confinement, and sometimes we all need to break out of jail.”

— Salman Rushdie

Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however, have to be a life sentence.

— Peter A. Levine

Just come once and say you loved me at some point in you, then you are free to go.I will live rest of my…

— Sushan

Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into…

— Patrick White

“Reality is a life sentence.”

— Carl-John X Veraja

“Christianity Life sentence with a death penalty and full pardon”

— John M. Sheehan

“Health is a Lifestyle, not a Life Sentence.”

— Tora Cullip

Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.

— Anonymous

“Justice being served or not, being a victim carries a life sentence.”

— John D. Moore

I am convinced that the world-wide protests during the Rivonia trial saved Mandela and his fellow-accused from a death sentence. But in South Africa,…

— Oliver Tambo

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.

— Barbara Kingsolver

We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence,…

— Maya Angelou

“Alcoholism is a choice... not a life sentence.”

— David Norman