Lifetime Quotes

2001 Lifetime quotes by 1422 unique authors

Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime. — Jean Cocteau
A real love letter is made of insight, understanding, and compassion. Otherwise it's not a love letter. A true love letter can produce a transformation… — Nhat Hanh
You are not the last dream of my soul. You are the first dream, the only dream I ever was unable to stop myself from… — Cassandra Clare
Folks think a lifetime is a thing stretched out over years. It ain't. It can happen quick as a match in a dark room. — Esi Edugyan
I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by… — Annie Dillard
Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man… — Desmond Tutu
Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
One great love in a single lifetime was enough for anyone. — Robert James Waller
I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death. — Alison Bechdel
(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadness) — Jean Sasson
To look at her, you might not guess that inside she is laughing and crying, at her own stupidities and luckiness, and at the strange… — Sylvia Plath
The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star,… — Carl Sagan
Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A chef. An interior… — Terry McMillan
Listen she said, everything ends, every single relationship you will ever have in your lifetime is going to end.... I'll die, you'll die, you'll get… — Ann Patchett
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
And perhaps it was also the case that, for all a lifetime's internal struggling, you were finally no more than what others saw you as.… — Julian Barnes
Scott: Friends don't let friends drive drunk. Nora: Are you trying to appeal to my conscience? Scott: How can you turn down a once-in-a-lifetime chance… — Becca Fitzpatrick
Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says. — Suzanne Collins
But most of all, I learned that it’s possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when there’s been a lifetime… — Nicholas Sparks
Love one another, Jesus said. Sometimes it took a lifetime to learn how. Sometimes it took someone to hit rock bottom to make someone reach… — Francine Rivers
Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had a lot to be ungrateful… — Jeannette Walls
I thought about the bigger picture of my life, and about the people—and particularly the guys—I would encounter during my lifetime. How would I ever… — Rachel Cohn
...When a man first awakens, it sometimes takes several moments before he starts thinking clearly." "And here I thought it took several years, perhaps a… — Karen Marie Moning
Girls like you can't understand," Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken… — Kristin Hannah

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