Long Since Quotes
130 Long Since quotes by 117 unique authors
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From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.
— Georges Simenon
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After dinner, I become afraid despite myself. I know I should be joyous, for this reunion is the proof that love can still be ours,…
— Nicholas Sparks
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You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you…
— Hermann Hesse
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Oh,' she said, too bone-weary to pretend: 'I would far rather that I love you as I saw yesterday I do than that I had…
— Robin McKinley
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Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart…
— Loren Eiseley
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You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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His eyes, I’d long since discovered, could be as eloquent and expressive as his pen. The messages they sent me now hardly seemed decent for…
— Richelle Mead
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I'd like to take a walk far back in the flinty hills and search for a souvenir, an old double-bitted ax stuck deep in the…
— Wilson Rawls
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Long since, the desert wind wiped away our footprints in the sand. But at every second of my existence, I remember what happened, and you…
— Paulo Coelho
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I have seem even those who have long since abjured God die in grace. . . . Atheists don't use their drying to bargain for…
— Stephen Levine
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Cassandra wondered at the mind's cruel ability to toss up flecks of the past. Why, as she neared her life's end, her grandmother's head should…
— Kate Morton
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I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.
— Franz Kafka
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Coffee, she'd discovered, was tied to all sorts of memories, different for each person. Sunday mornings, friendly get-togethers, a favorite grandfather long since gone, the…
— Sarah Addison Allen
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The kissed surprised him because it had been so long since he'd kissed anyone but Elspeth. It surprised Valentina because she had hardly ever kissed…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
— Samuel Beckett
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No other life forms know they are alive, and neither do they know they will die. This is our curse alone. Without this hex upon…
— Thomas Ligotti
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…It’s hard to appreciate the beauty of a world when one doubts its very validity….But I’ve long since lost all such doubts, Ono,’ he continued.…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Something in my gut twisted so hard that it felt like I was being tickled by an invisible hand, and it took me a moment…
— Alexander Gordon Smith
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It was as if the demise of the owner had lent the flat a physical void it hadn't had before. At the same time he…
— Jo Nesbo
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It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.
— Margaret Mitchell
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Gabe brings home a chicken and Tommy Falk for dinner. Truth be told, I'm not unhappy to see any of them. Gabe, because it's been…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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All things belonging to the earth will never change-the leaf, the blade, the flower, the wind that cries and sleeps and wakes again, the trees…
— Thomas Wolfe
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She'll have to get over it, then. Are you going to let her drop out of Dauntless for a stupid reason like not being able…
— Veronica Roth
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Your fate is writ clear;you will be murdered. I cannot conceive how it comes about that you were not murdered long since! How odd!Charles himself…
— Georgette Heyer
Who Wrote These Long Since Quotes
117 authors contributed a total of 130 Long Since Quotes, led by these top contributors: