Top 100 All Your Life Quotes
#1. Ellen Louise, you've done the sensible thing all your life. Now's the time to follow your heart."
"What if I do that and he still turns me down?"
"What if you don't and you never know?
Jenna Kernan
#2. I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life.
Franka Potente
#3. My friend, you thought you lost Him;
that all your life you've been separated from Him.
Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him,
and haven't searched within your own house.
Rumi
#4. It's better to be a wolf for a day, than a sheep all your life.
Unknown
#5. You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
Jane Fonda
#6. Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.
Jean Cocteau
#7. I am the harvest of man's stupidity. I am the fruit of the holocaust. I prayed like you to survive, but look at me now. It is over for us who are dead, but you must struggle, and will carry the memories all your life. People back home will wonder why you can't forget.
Eugene B. Sledge
#8. Easy for you to say," Polly said. "You've lived here all your life and stayed under the radar. No one points at you."
"Sometimes small children point at my butt," Aunt Rhea said. "But that's just on account of all the fried chicken.
Kathy Hepinstall
#9. All your life you think 60 is ancient, and all of a sudden you find you're 60 and you don't really feel that different. I feel stronger and more engaged. This is the best time of my life.
Glenn Close
#10. You're collaborating with people you don't even know, when you're making a film. You're collaborating with people you've never seen. So, the collaborative process is very, very different than when you're collaborating on a record with the musicians you've worked with all your life.
Nick Cave
#11. Do you want to sell sugar water all your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?
Steve Jobs
#12. Time, though you've probably lived all your life believing the contrary, is not money. If you run out of money, there are many ways to scrounge up more. If you run out of time - well, that's all she wrote.
Jay Conrad Levinson
#13. I've taken a lot of time to build up the name Flavor Flav, but this could come tumbling down in 30 seconds. If you want to keep what you worked for hard all your life, then you got to do the right thing in your life.
Flavor Flav
#14. The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, why fiddle you must, for all your life.
Edgar Lee Masters
#15. If you become a writer you'll be trying to describe the ?Thing all your life: and lucky if, out of dozens of books, one or two sentences, just for a moment, come near to getting it across.
C.S. Lewis
#16. When you go through all your life processing and abusing your hair so it will look like the hair of another race of people then you are making a statement and the statement is clear
Assata Shakur
#17. I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.
Pablo Casals
#18. What's important is that you can be a wife and mother or you can be a devoted daughter all your life. You can't be both. Not when Thomas Jefferson is your father. You have to choose, Patsy. His
Stephanie Dray
#19. If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.
Minor White
#20. You can spend all your life looking for things. The truth is that those things will elude you. Change your approach. Begin to seek God and you will see things running after you.
Theophilus Ajadi
#21. Don't be a scared, dickless boy all your life, letting people push you around, letting people bring up the fear in you.
Gillian Flynn
#22. As a Formula One driver, you dream about winning your first race all your life. I am desperate to know what it feels like.
Sergio Perez
#23. Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Golda Meir
#24. Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?
Ernest Hemingway,
#25. Why live in the darkness all your life? Why, if you are unhappy, if you are having a miserable time, why not just look at it? Why are you in the darkness? Look for the light. The light is within.
George Harrison
#26. Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that's been in front of you all your life.
Paul Hoffman
#27. If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby - or even have depth.
Brittany Daniel
#28. I'd love to go and I'd love to play for my country and go to a World Cup again. I've got to accept I'm not in the current squad and just think, 'If I get it, it's a bonus and I'll give it everything.' But it's hard to do when you've been thinking a different way all your life.
Michael Owen
#29. You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.
Anthony Doerr
#30. In the longest run of all, your life, you're going to be a winner.
Amby Burfoot
#31. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.
Hank Aaron
#32. If you're the kind of person who has no guts, you just give up every time life pushes you. If you're that kind of person, you'll live all your life playing it safe, doing the right things, saving yourself for something that never happens. Then, you die a boring old man.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#33. Then Martine said: "So yuo will be poor now all your life, Babette?"
Poor?" said Babette. She smiled as if to herself. "No, I shall never be poor. I told you that I am a great artist. A great artist, Mesdames, is never poor.We have something, Mesdames, of which other people know nothing.
Karen Blixen
#34. You don't win by getting through all your life not having done anything.
John Scalzi
#35. Someone can tell you all your life that you're inferior, but it doesn't matter until you accept it and allow for validation. Once validation takes place, it's then that the colonial malaise sets in like smallpox.
M.B. Dallocchio
#36. Allow yourself to release the emotions you have struggled all your life to contain.
Ellen Bass
#37. All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.
C.S. Lewis
#38. You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.
John Irving
#39. Better to have been a dickhead and seen it,
than be a cunt all your life and not know it.
Kate Tempest
#40. You could look at birds all your life without ever knowing what was a sparrow and what was a blackbird, but we all know a swan when we see it.
Joe Hill
#41. You are beautiful. Don't ever think you are not. It may be such a compliment that does not come from a man too often. They are shy, proud, and rude. Give yourself some love. And walk as what you are - a beautiful woman. All your life.
Yoko Ono
#42. It's as if you've been walking against a great wind all your life, and then the wind is gone, and you can't walk.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#43. Dear Waves,
You have been restless all your life? Or maybe uneasy? I don't know quite. Oscillating between faiths, swinging between shores!
Yet when we sit next to you on those sands, do you never feel like sharing what bothers you so much?
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#44. Guard your heart:
Mysterious things happen in there.
Stand as the watchman of your soul,
And be careful about what you let in.
For, therefrom, come all your life's issues.
Manuela George-Izunwa
#45. Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.
Joko Beck
#46. Who can claim to know you more than you know yourself? You have been with yourself all your life, after all.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#47. Blues ain't football. You don't have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.
Elvin Bishop
#48. You're young and you have all your life ahead of you.
J. Lynn
#49. Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion.
John Lennon
#50. You'd think wouldn't hurt a little one, but the pain is a great as if they'd been with yoy all your life. You can't remember what it was like before they touched your heart and you can never forget them
Lorraine Heath
#52. Now I know that if you wait till you think you are ready, you'll wait all your life.
John Flanagan
#53. Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly.
Ben Okri
#54. Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all the clothes you have ever owned in all your life, each baby shoe and winter coat and wedding dress, you would have your autobiography.
Linda Grant
#55. So long as you are alive you are just the moment, perhaps, but when you are dead then you are all your life from the first moment to the last.
H.G.Wells
#56. Dedicate (donate, give all) your life to something larger than yourself and pleasure - to the largest thing you can: to God, to relieving suffering, to contributing to knowledge, to adding to literature, or something else. Happiness lies this way, and it beats pleasure hollow.
Annie Dillard
#57. You can live here all your life, and still be considered an outsider.
E.D. Rea
#58. The answer can't be found in books - or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you - feel the right thing to do. Charlie, you've got to learn to trust yourself
Daniel Keyes
#59. There are people you know all your life who never really make a difference to who you are; others arrive for a short time and change everything.
Miranda Dickinson
#60. You can't play the role of a victim all your life without becoming one in the end.
Danilo Kis
#61. Of course, if you can pretend to be strong all your life, then you can be very comforting to those around you.
Kurt Vonnegut
#62. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life.
Hank Aaron
#63. You can chase a Beethoven symphony all your life and never catch up.
Andre Previn
#64. Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
Adam Duritz
#65. His beard was all colors, a grove of trees in autumn, deep brown and fire-orange and wine-red, an untrimmed tangle across the lower half of his face. His cheeks were apple-red. He looked like a friend; like someone you had known all your life.
Neil Gaiman
#66. Worship is more than singing beautiful songs in church on a Sunday. It is more than instruments and music. As a true worshipper, your heart will long to worship Him at all times, in all ways and with all your life.
Darlene Zschech
#67. Grace quite likes the fact that you can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely. It makes her feel free. Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking. Grace
Liane Moriarty
#69. It is so important to be conscious even when it makes you realize how much negative stuff you have enjoyed all your life until you realized it was all anti you.
Pearl Cleage
#70. She couldn't change who she was, and she no longer wanted to, even if she could. She knew that who you are is a stone set deep inside you. You can spend all your life trying to dig that stone out, or you can build around it. Your choice.
Sarah Addison Allen
#71. You will always miss her. There will be days - even years from now - when the missing will be so sharp it will take your breath away. But there will be good days, too, months and years of them. In one way or another you'll be searching for her all your life.
Kristin Hannah
#72. All you touch and all you see, is all your life can ever be...
Mark A. Goldstein
#73. It was hard to understand how you could know someone all your life, think that you knew everything about them, then one Sunday they'd be standing in the kitchen of the flat that you both owned and seem like a total stranger
Sarra Manning
#74. The Watchers have been protecting you to the best of our ability all your life, and have been watching for your birth for approximately 1500 years." Then he added pleasantly, "Would you like some cocoa?
C.A. Gray
#75. We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.
George Wald
#76. Miracles is the sort of book that once you've read it you'll wonder where it's been all your life
Kathie Lee Gifford
#77. Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.
Shannon Hale
#78. The only person with you all your life is you. Your parents die. Things inside you die - illusions, gushes of personality. Only you can sort yourself out. Yourself may not be all you need, but it's all you've got.
Kate Bush
#79. If by sticking to the moral principles you have followed all your life, you jeopardize your happiness and that of others, throw over your principles. Principles for principles' sake -that is not wisdom; that is obstinacy. Principles should be fluid because life is fluid.
Epifanio De Los Santos
#80. You should not have idle hands, you should always be working. All your life.
Ivan Bunin
#81. I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last.
Alan Ladd
#82. She is like a cat in the dark
And then she is the darkness
She rules her life like a fine skylark
And when the sky is starless
All your life you've never seen a woman
Taken by the wind
Would you stay if she promised you heaven?
Will you ever win?
Stevie Nicks
#83. Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.
Ernest Hemingway,
#85. Don't be a sucker all your life, dummy up, ya dope.
Jack Kerouac
#86. It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
Mickey Mantle
#87. So now, I exhort you with this truth: Don't spend all your life playing it safe! Safety is very comfortable, but it may be keeping you from God's perfect plan for your life ...
Joyce Meyer
#89. All your life Davy, you'll find yourself doing things you don't want to do - Anne Shirley
L.M. Montgomery
#90. Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But open your mouth, or become inquisitive, and you will be in trouble all your life long.
Laozi
#91. You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.
Umberto Eco
#92. Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life
Leo Tolstoy
#93. You should never do two things. You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn't do that; I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone.
Brion Gysin
#94. Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
Dorothy Parker
#95. Why it is possible to learn more in ten minutes about the Crab Nebula in Taurus, which is 6,000 light-years away, than you presently know about yourself, even though you've been stuck with yourself all your life or
Walker Percy
#96. One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater.
Katharine Whitehorn
#97. Murder is the thoroughbred stable. Murder is a shine and a dazzle, a smooth ripple like honed muscle, take your breath away. Murder is a brand on your arm, like an elite army unit's, like a gladiator's, saying for all your life: One of us. The finest.
Tana French
#98. You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.
Paul Kantner
#99. When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's like a fire you've tended all your life, and the sparks are all scattered into the wind ... That's why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going.
Kevin Brockmeier
#100. Don't apologize for all the tears you've cried, you've been way too strong now for all your life.
Mat Kearney
