Longest Quotes
360 Longest quotes by 292 unique authors
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Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the people,…
— Henry Ford
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There was a DJ who stayed up for eleven days straight, the longest recorded period of time anyone has ever gone without sleep, and he…
— Meg Cabot
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When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine, his scowl a…
— Rachel Vincent
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I’m not good at talking,” Naoko said. “Haven’t been for the longest while. I start to say something and the wrong words come out. Wrong…
— Haruki Murakami
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The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. Somebody did…
— Douglas Adams
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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
— Will Durant
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The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Even the longest con was never more than an assortment of moments that were in themselves very very short.
— Ally Carter
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For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.
— John Green
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He goes his way. We travel a spiral. The quickest way is sometimes the longest.
— Neil Gaiman
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Love that we cannot have is the one that lasts the longest,hurts the deepest,but feels the strongest
— William Shakespeare
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Love," he said, "has the longest arms.
— Megan McCafferty
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If you think about human nature, our favourite pair of shoes are the ones we bought yesterday, our favourite thing is the newest thing that…
— Taylor Swift
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As he was about to leave, she said, "Murtagh." He paused and turned to regard her. She hesitated for a moment, then mustered her courage…
— Christopher Paolini
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I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is a male version…
— Yoko Ono
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I couldn’t help but think about school and everything else ending. I liked standing just outside the couches and watching them—it was a kind of…
— John Green
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and because what we learn in the dark remains all our lives, a noise like the sea, displacing the day's pale knowledge, you'll come to…
— John Burnside
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Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine. I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket…
— Richard Siken
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.
— Lord Byron
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Love may have the longest arms, but it can still fall short of an embrace.
— Megan McCafferty
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The best wines take the longest to mature.
— John Fowles
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The sun was trembling on the brink of the world, the shadows at their longest, and they still had several kilometers to go.
— John Flanagan
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It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different…
— Toni Morrison
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We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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His voice, even now, follows me everywhere on this longest of rides, this thing called life.
— Nicholas Sparks
Who Wrote These Longest Quotes
292 authors contributed a total of 360 Longest Quotes, led by these top contributors: