Lasting Quotes

801 quotes by 638 authors

For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing another person out of a whole crowd of strangers. — Alexandra Potter
All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit… — Marcus Aurelius
One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting… — Virginia Woolf
And it occurred to me that friendship was a lot more dependable, not to mention long-lasting, than love. — Lisa Kleypas
A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more. — William Shakespeare
Never such innocence, Never before or since, As changed itself to past Without a word--the men Leaving the gardens tidy, The thousands of marriages Lasting… — Philip Larkin
If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my… — David Levithan
You can say anything with a Post-It. Iâ€™m not entirely sure why that is. Maybe the friendliness of the squares makes it easier. A square… — Erin Morgenstern
A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years. — Viktor E. Frankl
Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are… — Amin Maalouf
Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to… — Margaret George
I was late to understand that chaos and intensity are no subsitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life. Normal… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Our moments are music, and sometimes â€“ just sometimes â€“ we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If we didnâ€™t have… — David Levithan
Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within. — Franz Kafka
Men credited with all kinds of ability, talent, brains and know how, including the ability to see into the future, frequently have nothing more than… — Earl Nightingale
Everything that happens to us, good and bad, leaves a lasting impression in our souls. You take one part of that out, and you can… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
It makes me cry because it means that fewer and fewer people are believing it's cool to want what I want, which is to be… — Mindy Kaling
People weren't firecrackers who burst into the night sky with brilliance and glory, and a moment later faded away to nothing. Our souls had to… — Janette Rallison
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart — Unknown Author
There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is lasting. — Paulo Coelho

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