Discover That I Had Not Lived Quotes

#1. Nothing could be worse, Thoreau wrote, than to come to the end of life and "discover that I had not lived.

Dale Salwak

#2. ...we can do some historical research to see how our ancestors lived. We will quickly discover that we are living in what to them would have been a dream world that we tend to take for granted things that our ancestors had to live without...

William B. Irvine

#3. Even someone like Mrs. Bonnaventura, who had lived a mostly blameless life, when ushered into the awesome presence of the Creator of the infinite universe and also of the butterfly, would discover ten thousand fearsome new layers of meaning in the word humility.

Dean Koontz

#4. If you don't invest in you, you'll soon find that no one else will, either.

T.D. Jakes

#5. Once you choose to raise your own awareness, you will have done the most you can to defeat the dark side of human nature and to discover that a higher reality can actually be found and lived.

Deepak Chopra

#6. If we lived in a world with no fear, then you would never discover the courage you have within.

Jennifer O'Neill

#7. A physical attraction is often desired above many things but you'll discover it to be short lived. Find yourself someone that gets under your skin, seduces the dusty corners of your heart, and provides you with a mental connection. That is when you'll know true intimacy.

M.J. Abraham

#8. The vast majority of Americans agree with us. We're doing everything that we can. We're advertising, right now we're on television with an advertisement running in the Washington area. We've got newspaper ads.

Michael D. Barnes

#9. When it is time to die, let us not discover that we never lived.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. Now he experienced a feeling akin to that of a man whom while calmly crossing a bridge over a precipice, should suddenly discover that the bridge is broken, and that there is a chasm below. That chasm was life itself, the bridge that artificial life in which Aleksey Aleksandrovich had lived.

Leo Tolstoy

#11. Your lack of ambitious is truly remarkable.

John Green

#12. I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly lived.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. I actually find it pretty tedious when magazines ask me to write articles based on my real life, because I've already lived it and there's nothing new to discover. So, I'm unlikely to write a memoir.

Nick Earls

#14. God will probably allow us to ask questions about and discover some of the things we've always been curious about. Isn't it marvelous to think about how we will be able to actually meet and talk to people who lived throughout history?

David Berg

#15. If you close your eyes, you can conjure a world.

David Levithan

#16. You had nightmares every night for a long time and screamed in Korean words, but we didn't know what they meant. I asked someone who knew Korean, and he said it was um-ma um-ma, the word for mom.

Soojung Jo

#17. And I'll know my song well before I start singing

Bob Dylan

#18. When you discover the wonder of giving, you will wonder how you could have lived so long in any other way.

Norman Vincent Peale

#19. Turn on the dream you lived
through the unwavering gaze.
It is as you thought: the living burn.
In the floating days
may you discover grace.

Galway Kinnell

#20. I'm not only in touch with my feminine side, I'm in touch with my gay side as well.

Jeremy Clarkson

#21. And there shall come a kingdom in which the lion shall lie down with the lamb. Unfortunately for the lamb it shall be inside the lion!

Greg Curtis

#22. Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing.

Bobbie Ann Mason

#23. I suppose I've always lived in my own head. I didn't discover boys till sixth form. Then suddenly it was, 'Oh! Boys!'

Malorie Blackman

#24. I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#25. When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

Henry David Thoreau

#26. Weed, you know, you just get mellow. You can drive pretty stoned and be OK. I mean, sometimes you get too stoned and you can't drive. But you could get pretty stoned and still drive.

Jason Mewes

#27. Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, said that whenever he could not see his way clearly, he knelt down and prayed for light and understanding.

Nathan Eldon Tanner

#28. I wrote everything into Anna Karenina, and nothing was left over.

Leo Tolstoy

#29. When did you last see him?" "About twenty minutes ago," I said. "In the morgue." Finlay nodded gently. "Before that?" "Seven years ago," I said. "Our mother's funeral.

Lee Child