Two Lives Quotes

• As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly desirable) to love two people with all your heart. It is entirely possible to long for two lives, to feel that one life can't come close to containing it all.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Heart, Two, Long

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  We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one

  Tom Hiddleston

  Life, Two, Religion

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• We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Inspirational, Two, Given

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• If you're living two lives and you're lying to everyone, you're bound to slip up, in some way, you're bound to get something wrong, and you're bound to get found out.

  Jamie Bell

  Lying, Two, Way

  "Jamie Bell Talks Turn, Coming to Television, Physical Challenges, Researching the Historical Setting, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 18, 2014.

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• If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Two, Scar

  'By the Fireside' (1855) st. 46

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• If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mistake, Life Lesson, Two

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• I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Two, Tragedy, Shame

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are only two lives we might live: our dream or our destiny. Sometimes they are one in the same, and sometimes they're not. Often our dreams are just a path to our destinies.

  Glennon Melton

  Dream, Destiny, Two

  Glennon Doyle Melton (2014). “Carry On, Warrior: The Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams.

  Che Guevara

  Running, Dream, Mean

  Che Guevara (2013). “The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey”, Ocean Press

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• I've always wanted two lives - one for the movies, one for myself.

  Greta Garbo

  Life, Movie, Two

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• He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life running its course in secret. And through some strange, perhaps accidental, conjunction of circumstances, everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself, everything that made the kernel of his life, was hidden from other people.

  Anton Chekhov

  Running, Two, People

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.2943, Delphi Classics

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• But time, as well as healing all wounds, taught me something strange too: that it's possible to love more than one person in a lifetime. I remarried. I'm very happy with my new wife, and I can't imagine living without her. This, however, doesn't mean that I have to renounce all my past experiences, as long as I'm careful not to compare my two lives. You can't measure love the way you can the length of a road or the height of a building.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mean, Healing, Past

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• Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?

  Alan Lightman

  Life, Future, Two

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• The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Live Life, Reality, Two

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.76, Xist Publishing

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• At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Eye, Two

  'The Waste Land' (1922) pt. 3

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• Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is certainly a prerequisite of love. One of the most essential ways of saying 'I love you' is being a receptive listener.

  Fred Rogers

  Love You, Two, Listening

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.23, Penguin

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• Then all that is needed is a little daring, and his two lives become one.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspiration, Two, Littles

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• I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

  Ruth Benedict

  Two, World, Gamer

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.3, Transaction Publishers

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• They say that when you're about to die, your life flashes before your eyes. They never tell you that when you watch someone you once loved dying, hovering between this life and the next, it's twice as painful, because you're reliving two lives that traveled one road together.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Eye, Two, Together

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2015). “Black Ice”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

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• I know it's not strictly sex that accounts for my straying the motive usually attributed to men. I think it's just too tempting to have two lives rather than one. Some people think that too much travel begets infidelity: Separation and opportunity test the bonds of love. I think it's more likely that people who hate to make choices to settle on one thing or another are attracted to travel. Travel doesn't beget a double life. The appeal of the double life begets travel.

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Sex, Hate, Men

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• To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower in the scale. He makes distinctions only as each case comes before him, and under the pressure of necessity, as, for example, when it falls to him to decide which of two lives he must sacrifice in order to preserve the other. But all through this series of decisions he is conscious of acting on subjective grounds and arbitrarily, and knows that he bears the responsibility for the life which is sacrificed.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Fall, Responsibility, Sacrifice

  Albert Schweitzer, Charles Rhind Joy (1947). “Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

  Martial

  Life, Past, Two

  Epigrams, X, 23, c. 80 - 104 AD.

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• Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Divorce, Two, Ships

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 504-05, A Lament, line 10, 1922.

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• There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Character, Heart, Men

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• A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Two, Building, Makers

  "The Invention and Reinvention of the City: An Interview with Rem Koolhaas". Interview with Paul Fraioli, jia.sipa.columbia.edu. April 19, 2012.

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