Lifetime Quote by Edith Wharton

“He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled dreams of an inarticulate lifetime.”

— Edith Wharton

He had regrets, of course, but not so many that he would lose any sleep over them. Life surprised him now and then and…

— Steve Perry

He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the easy tranquil things of life. He…

— Saul Bellow

“The past could always be annihilated; regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. There were passions in him that…

— Oscar Wilde

He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine…

— Robert Cormier

The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“He never did rid himself of the feeling that he had been denied his rightful place. It kept him from being good-natured, and made…

— Warren Eyster

“In so many ways he’d lived like he would live forever. He’d taken his time for granted on one hand and simultaneously not fully…

— Tim McBain

“Year by year, his life wasn't amounting to anything at all...And yet, another part of him had expanded: his self-consciousness, his self-pity -- oh,…

— Kiran Desai

He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control.

— William Nicholson

He had to fight. That's all he had. Not memories, not experiences, not skills. He had a will. And his will was to fight…

— Ann Brashares

“After a lifetime of living by his wits and his considerable memory, he had given himself full time to the profession of forgetting.”

— John le Carré