Lifetime Quotes - Page 38

• You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, First Love, Boys

  "That Summer". Book by Sarah Dessen, 1996.

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• How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime.

  Ian Mcewan

  Self, Guilt, Rosary

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• The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

  Loren Eiseley

  Travel, Memorable, Journey

  Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.12, Vintage

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• In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.

  Robert James Waller

  Love, Dream, Matter

  "The Bridges of Madison County". Book by Robert James Waller, 1992.

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• Sometimes I look back and I am shocked. Everyday of my life I have prepared for success, worked for it, waited for it, and you don't notice how the days pass until nearly a lifetime is finished. Then it hits you--the thing you have been waiting for has already gone by. And it was going in the other direction. It's like I've been waiting on the wrong side of the road for a bus that was already full." p. 265

  Monica Ali

  Waiting, Everyday, Looks

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• and I shudder sometimes to think of all that stellar mystery of how she IS going to get me in a future lifetime, wow - And I seriously do believe that will be my salvation, too. A long way to go.

  Jack Kerouac

  Believe, Thinking, Long

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.109, BookBaby

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• After dinner, I become afraid despite myself. I know I should be joyous, for this reunion is the proof that love can still be ours, but I know the bell has tolled this evening. The sun has long since set and the thief is about to come, and there is nothing I can do to stop it. So I stare at her and wait and live a lifetime in these last remaining moments.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Long, Waiting, Thieves

  Nicholas Sparks (2014). “The Notebook: Student edition”, p.159, Hachette UK

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• Five minutes of a lifetime were truly spent, and we felt young in a good way.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Way, Minutes, Young

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you think I could bear to live on after you died? Oh, Lyra, I'd follow you down to the world of the dead without thinking twice about it, just like you followed Roger; and that would be two lives gone for nothing, my life wasted like yours. No, we should spend our whole lifetimes together, good long busy lives, and if we can't spend them together, we... we'll have to spend them apart.

  Philip Pullman

  Thinking, Two, Long

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystalize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are melted into one conversation, one glance, one hurt, and one hurt can be shattered and sprinkled over a thousand days. It is silent and elusive, refusing to be damned and dripped out day by day; it swirls through the mind while an entire lifetime can ride like foam on the deceptive, transparent waves and get sprayed onto the conciousness at ragged, unexpected intervals.

  Gloria Naylor

  Hurt, Memories, Glasses

  Gloria Naylor (2005). “The Women of Brewster Place”, p.35, Penguin

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• There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Littles, Mystery, Masters

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• My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Happiness, Bliss, Moments

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

  Khalil Gibran

  Crush, Spiritual, Sweet

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• Some men go a lifetime and never have their kid blow up a car, but I have a daughter who's knocked off three cars and burned down a funeral home. Maybe that's some kind of record.

  Janet Evanovich

  Daughter, Home, Kids

  Janet Evanovich (2007). “More Plums in One: Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six”, p.104, Macmillan

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• Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

  Bette Davis

  Love, Missing You, Breakup

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• It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.

  Will Rogers

  Reputation, Minutes, Loses

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• It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of a butterfly in the right place, we are told, can create a hurricane across an ocean. Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Children, Ocean

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• So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

  Sylvia Plath

  Reading, Thinking, Long

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.149, Anchor

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• Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else.

  Louis L'Amour

  Somewhere Else, People, Important

  Louis L'Amour (2014). “The Sacketts Volume One 5-Book Bundle: Sackett's Land, To the Far Blue Mountains, The Warrior's Path, Jubal Sackett, Ride the River”, p.862, Bantam

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• One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Doe, Surrender

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• Then i imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Be Kind, Kind, Cry

  Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.133, Dial Press

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• The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Individual Effort, Generations, Century

  Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Historian”, p.66, Hachette UK

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• He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception we rail against for a lifetime.

  Kelly Corrigan

  Self, Parent, Perception

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• An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.

  Arthur Golden

  Believe, People, Forever

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• Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.

  Fred Rogers

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Effort

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.9, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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