Long Life Quotes - Page 11

• Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.

  Owain Glyndwr

  Cousin, Fear, Long

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• I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Happiness, Dream, Retirement

  George Bernard Shaw (2009). “Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes”, p.216, The Floating Press

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• The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Death, Past, Sea

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1688, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Children, Memories, Heart

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• And another thing. Don’t ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever to have it. You never had it before and now you have it. What you have with Maria, whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it lasts for a long life is the most important thing that can happen to a human being. There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Kids, Long, People

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• Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.

  George Orwell

  Disappointment, Law, Long

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.47, Hamilton Books

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• And so, irritants, it is with this that I leave you. You are spared so that you can think of what it really is to live in a world that engenders a pain for which there is no comfort. Here is your product! You have the rest of your lives to think of this. And I suggest you think quickly, for a long life is never a guarantee.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Pain, Thinking, Long

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• Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

  Aristotle

  Happy Life, Long, Effort

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• Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Powerful, Attitude, Our World

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• You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's over in a flash, that they do this thing, or that thing, and then die, but I can assure you they are quite wrong.

  Nancy Mitford

  Ideas, Long, People

  Nancy Mitford (2010). “Love in a Cold Climate”, p.134, Vintage

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• It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.

  Jodi Picoult

  Long, Realizing, My Sisters Keeper

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.326, Simon and Schuster

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• IN MY LIFELONG STUDY OF HUMAN BEINGS, I HAVE FOUND that no matter how hard they might try, they have found no way yet to prevent the arrival of Monday morning. And they do try, of course, but Monday always comes, and all the drones have to scuttle back to their dreary workaday lives of meaningless toil and suffering.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Monday, Morning, Long

  "Dexter In The Dark".

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• The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Long, Joy, Sorrow

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “The Joys of Love”, p.92, Macmillan

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• Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Differences, Long

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 2 (1891)

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• I think that's such a beautiful sentiment. Love should only last as long as a very expensive and impractical bikini that looks stunning, but dissolves in the sea within days. So many pop songs tell of this terrible, tiresome love that they want to last forever. But that just makes me think of long-life milk, acrid and fake. Love should be like a movie trailer. Even if the film's a stinker, you get the best laughs and the biggest explosions in the space of two minutes.

  Emma Forrest

  Beautiful, Song, Thinking

  Emma Forrest (2014). “Namedropper”, p.24, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I knew he would never leave me, never let me down-because the man had never abandoned anything in his long life. If I hadn’t taken the gold rope of our bond, I knew Adam would have sat on me and hog-tied me with it. I liked that. A lot.

  Patricia Briggs

  Taken, Men, Long

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• I have discovered in my long life that there are many words and phrases which have more power than any spell of magick. The most well-known of these is, of course, I love you. But by far the most deadly is, if only. For these two words can strip a man's strength, his courage and his confidence. They become the father of regret and anguish and pain.

  David Gemmell

  Pain, Regret, Father

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• The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

  William James Mayo

  Life, Science, Ideas

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• We will be able to depart this life with the quiet peace-giving notion, that we were permitted to contribute to the happiness of many who will live after us. In our long lives we endeavored to unfold the collective consciousness. In our lives we have known hell and heaven; the final balance, however, is that we helped pave the way to dynamic harmony in this earthly house. That, I believe, is the meaning of this live.

  Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

  Life, Believe, Science

  "In Memoriam R. W. van Bemmelen". Geologie en Mijnbouw, Vol 63, No. 1, fosi.iagi.or.id. 1984.

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• Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives. The struggle for equality continues unabated, and the woman warrior who is armed with wit and courage will be among the first to celebrate victory.

  Maya Angelou

  Witty, Struggle, Warrior

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.6, Bantam

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• For me, the times I always regret are missed opportunities to say farewell to good people, to wish them long life and say to them in all sincerity, "You build and do not destroy; you sow goodwill and reap it; smiles bloom in the wake of your passing, and I will keep your kindness in trust and share it as occasion arises, so that your life will be a quenching draught of calm in a land of drought and stress." Too often I never get to say that when it should be said. Instead, I leave them with the equivalent of a "Later, dude!" only to discover there would be no later for us.

  Kevin Hearne

  Kindness, Regret, Stress

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.716, Del Rey

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• Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

  Colum McCann

  Long, Giving, Alive

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• At that moment he knew what his mother was thinking, and that she loved him. But he knew, too, that to love someone means relatively little; or, rather, that love is never strong enough to find the words befitting it. Thus he and his mother would always love each other silently. And one day she--or he--would die, without ever, all their lives long, having gone farther than this by way of making their affection known.

  Albert Camus

  Mother, Strong, Mean

  Albert Camus (1962). “The Plague”

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• It's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Long, Time Heals, Sweetheart

  Cheryl Strayed (2014). “Torch”, p.271, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Philosophy, Long

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3)”, p.10, Kshetra Books

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