Lasted Quotes
245 quotes by 227 authors
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In my madness I was actually in love with her for the few hours it all lasted; it was the same unmistakable ache and stab…
— Jack Kerouac
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She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their fifties.
— Derek Landy
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do. A lifetime is not long enough. Nor youth to old age long enough. Immortality and permanence be…
— Sylvia Plath
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He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.
— Alice Hoffman
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It was Alec who brought their lips together. Seregil's first reaction was disbelief. But Alec was insistent, clumsy but determined. It lasted an instant, an…
— Lynn Flewelling
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The kiss lasted forever as Otto Frank kept talking from behind me. "And my conclusion is," he said, "since I had been in very good…
— John Green
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Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was…
— Stephen King
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Alec," Magnus said. He put a hand on his boyfriend’s shoulder; Alec was standing still, staring angrily at the floor. "Are you okay?" Alec looked…
— Cassandra Clare
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Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight.
— Terry Pratchett
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What is it, Angel?" she said, starting up. "Have they come for me?" "Yes, dearest," he said. "They have come." "It is as it should…
— Thomas Hardy
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He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life.
— Cheryl Strayed
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I have had affairs that lasted decades and others that lasted for hours. I have loved princesses and peasants. And I suppose they loved me,…
— Erin Morgenstern
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Something special is ending, and you're sad, but you can't be that said because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there'll be other…
— Gayle Forman
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The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.
— Edward Abbey
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The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through…
— Ernest Hemingway
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My best travelling experience lasted several years: between 1971 and 1974 when I bummed around the East. All I had with me was a cooking…
— Antony Gormley
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Nine Inch Nails is like building an army to go conquer. We build it, then we play, and we have to play so much to…
— Trent Reznor
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The Cro-Magnons lived with fear and amazement in a culture of Arrival, facing many mysteries. Their culture lasted for some 20,000 years.
— John Berger
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My walk on the moon lasted three days. My walk with God will last forever.
— Charles Duke
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There is nothing like a good old recipe. If it has lasted, then it is good.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
Who Wrote These Lasted Quotes
227 authors contributed a total of 245 Lasted Quotes, led by these top contributors: