I Lived Quotes

668 I Lived quotes by 562 unique authors

Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly… — Mark Twain
When I went to college, I lived on campus, and the guys I hung out with made the characters in Revenge of the Nerds look… — Dennis Miller
I wondered if the fire had been out to get me. I wondered if all fire was related, like Dad said all humans were related,… — Jeannette Walls
My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry… — John Berger
Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me. — C.S. Lewis
My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire… — Jim Butcher
And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have… — Jack London
I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet… — Margaret Atwood
How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel! — Dodie Smith
When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This… — Stephen King
Not only did I rediscover every experience of my life, I had to live each unfulfilled desire as well—as though they’d been fulfilled. I saw… — Richard Matheson
I loved them all the way one loves at any age -- if it's real at all -- obsessively, painfully, with wild exultation, with guilt,… — May Sarton
I was the subject of an experiment in love. I lived my life under her gaze, undergoing certain trials for her so that she would… — Hilary Mantel
At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point,… — Barbara Kingsolver
We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I… — Paul Theroux
Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I was a beautiful vampire princess loved, worshiped and admired by all. I lived in a luxurious gothic castle and I have no idea how… — Alyson Noel
Then after a long time Annie wasn’t a little girl anymore. She was a big girl and I was so much in love with her… — Robert Penn Warren
And I could weep at how mean people are and how they betray their fellow creatures, perhaps for the sake of personal advantage. It is… — Sophie Scholl
I am very selfish, really. I lived for love. — Zadie Smith
I’m giving you that chance now. (Stryker) It’s too late. Too many centuries have passed. There was a time when I lived only to hear… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes. — Jeannette Walls
I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much about what was going on… — Augusten Burroughs
I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I Lived… — Vladimir Nabokov

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