Best They Lived Sayings
105 They Lived quotes by 101 unique authors
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Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is…
— Albert Camus
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always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of…
— Nancy Mitford
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When they die no one will ever know that once they lived.
— Sidney Sheldon
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You who think of us: they lived only in delusion... Know that we the People of the Book, will never die!
— Czeslaw Milosz
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Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets…
— Alain de Botton
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And they lived happily (aside from a few normal disagreements, misunderstandings, pouts, silent treatments, and unexpected calamities) ever after.
— Jean Ferris
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The sight of snow made her think how beautiful and short life is and how, in spite of all their enmities, people have so very…
— Orhan Pamuk
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Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they…
— Victor Hugo
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She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning…
— Lisa Genova
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To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that…
— Salman Rushdie
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Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between,…
— Clive Barker
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The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the…
— Ronald Reagan
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If, for example, I saw my grandparents or my daughter for an instant, would I recognize them? Probably not, because in looking so hard for…
— Isabel Allende
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People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit,…
— Terry Pratchett
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People--stupid when they lived; potentially stupid when they died.
— Rob Thurman
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As the three of them walked home from the trees, nobody needed to say it, but Ama knew. They had questioned their friendship. They had…
— Ann Brashares
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
— James Joyce
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Gradually, I began to resent Christian school and doubt everything I was told. It became clear that the suffering they were praying to be released…
— Marilyn Manson
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They lived the slow and invisible interpenetration of their universes, like two stars gravitating around a common axis, in ever tighter orbits, whose clear destiny…
— Paolo Giordano
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No one was ever good enough for anybody's precious sons. No one ever called daughters precious, and why was that? Things had not changed very…
— Melissa de la Cruz
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I know this is insane, but i somehow wish i had been in auschwitz with my parents so i could really know what they lived…
— Art Spiegelman
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In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about each other in…
— Virginia Woolf
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