I Lived Quotes
668 I Lived quotes by 562 unique authors
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With a heavy heart, I turned and walked away. I knew that as long as I lived I'd never forget the two little graves and…
— Wilson Rawls
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I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so…
— Oscar Wilde
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For those that were never wounded by love, they will never be able to say: “I lived”. Because they haven’t.
— Paulo Coelho
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I put my hand on him. Touching him has always been important to me, it was something I lived for. I never could explain why.…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
— Richard Wright
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I’ve always liked the feeling of traveling light; there is something in me that wants to feel I could leave wherever I am, at any…
— Nicole Krauss
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I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
— Patti Smith
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Life was going on, and no one but a handful of people cared if I lived or died.
— Kim Harrison
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No one in my family or my circle of friends had ever had to confront something like this. Jamie was seventeen, a child on the…
— Nicholas Sparks
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I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.
— Sara Zarr
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I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.
— Alice Hoffman
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And I knew that the Spirit that had gone forth to shape the world and make it live was still alive in it. I just…
— Wendell Berry
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I live in New York City. I could never live anywhere else. The events of September 11 forced me to confront the fact that no…
— Nora Ephron
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I had to let go of him. But I knew that as long as I lived, I would feel the phantompain of his absence.
— Lisa Kleypas
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The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every day…
— Haruki Murakami
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Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wanting towards every kind of impossible future, the attitude of mind described by…
— Doris Lessing
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She told the truth as she saw it, and she died for it. I came along for the ride, and I lived. It wasn't worth…
— Mira Grant
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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That was what bound…
— Charlaine Harris
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Because letting someone in close meant they could hurt you. I knew all about that kind of fear. I lived with it.
— Lisa Kleypas
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Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heart why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were…
— Wendell Berry
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We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.
— Melina Marchetta
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I lived for those moments when we were together, those few times in my life that I actually felt alive.
— Melissa de la Cruz
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I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.
— Anne Rice
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Yes, Elizabeth.” Dash kept his voice low, but let it rumble with his arousal. “I lived for you and Cassie. But while I fought to…
— Lora Leigh
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