Long time Quote by Sarah J. Maas

“How short a time a person had to be alive, he thought. How long to be dead.”

— Kate Grenville

“Two thousand, seven hundred and seventy four days. That’s how long I waited and wished for you.”

— Emma Hart

“I ask no more than to live a hundred years longer, that I may have more time to dwell the longer on your memory.”

— Jules Verne

“Just remember: Forever is relative. What one person sees as three years can feel like a lifetime to another.”

— Holly Chamberlin

“Just a moment," Mrs. Whatsit murmured, and appeared to calculate rapidly upon her fingers. She nodded triumphantly. "Exactly 2,379,152,497 years, 8 months and 3 days.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Life was long, unless you died, and he didn’t intend to spend the next sixty years talking about the last twenty-two.”

— Chad Harbach

“A hundred days wasted out of two years and a bit ... a day when you were not in my heart; not a day's…

— Evelyn Waugh

I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.

— Patrick Ness

“I thought to live two centuries, or three- yet here comes death to me, a child just eighty five years old”

— Hanabusa Ikkei

“I walked into a bakery seven years later and there he was. He had dogs at his feet and a bird in a cage…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“a life can change in a tenth of a second. or sometimes it can take 70 years.”

— Charles Bukowski

“When you're on the other side of it," she says, "fifty-two years can seem like about fifty-two minutes.”

— Jennifer E. Smith