Top 100 I Have Lived Quotes
#1. I have lived on a razors edge. So what if you fall off. I'd rather be doing something I wanted to do. I'd walk it again.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#2. I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to think about my beliefs until my 28-year-old daughter Paula fell ill. She was in a coma for a year, and I took care of her at home until she died in my arms in December of 1992.
Isabel Allende
#3. I have made six big home moves in my life and I have never lost money on one I have lived in.
Anthea Turner
#4. Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well
Ernest Hemingway,
#5. I have lived my life defined as a refugee in Nepal and India, a resident alien and immigrant in the United States. At last, I am a Tibetan in Tibet, a Khampa in Kham, albeit as a tourist in my occupied and tethered country.
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
#6. Between 1950 and 1951, I worked as a temporary employee in the Cologne Bureau of Statistics. From summer 1951 on, I have lived as a freelance writer with a fixed postal address in Cologne but with a continually shifting place of work.
Heinrich Boll
#7. I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy. I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate.
Alice Herz-Sommer
#8. I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
Voltaire
#9. I have lived a thousand lives and I've loved a thousand loves. I've walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.
George R R Martin
#10. I shall die as I have lived, surrounded by bric-a-brac, sold by weight among the postscripts added to lost things.
Fernando Pessoa
#11. The principle of work is part of self-discipline. Now, my dear young sisters, I have lived a good many years longer than you, but even back in Grandpa's time there was something to make you want to lie down and go to sleep-they called it work.
James E. Faust
#12. I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.
Henning Mankell
#13. I have lived the life of the entrepreneur, and so I know the pain they are feeling. I know the daily ups and downs they go through. You know, they have their highs and lows sometimes within a matter of hours in a day.
Ram Shriram
#16. I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.
Charlaine Harris
#17. I have lived long enough to know what I did not at one time believe
that no society can be upheld in happiness and honor without the sentiment of religion.
Pierre-Simon Laplace
#18. In not a single one of these little campaigns was I victorious. In other words, in each case, I personally failed, but I have lived to see the thesis upon which I was operating vindicated. And what I very often say is that I've lived to see my lost causes found.
Pauli Murray
#19. Yes, I have lived through many miracles. I had experienced tender mercies that literally kept me alive. I had been carried by the love of others, and in many ways I had been blessed.
Elizabeth Smart
#20. This flesh I have lived in,
These thoughts I have lived with
Have befouled the sanctity of 'this' soul!
Forgive me Hashem!
L.D.R.
#21. I have lived, And seen God's hand thro a life time, And all was for the best.
Robert Browning
#22. I hate possibilities - God of God! I have lived on possibilities, and infernally near starved on them.
Rafael Sabatini
#23. I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.
Thomas Browne
#24. I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
Julius Caesar
#25. I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.
Giacomo Casanova
#26. Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!
Clara Barton
#27. That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.
Horace
#28. I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone.
Ellen Gilchrist
#29. I have lived in Ireland, visited all my life, and when I fight, I represent Ireland.
Tyson Fury
#30. Wherever you are, be all there. I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive.
Ann Voskamp
#31. I have lived my whole life with high intensity.
Rafael Nadal
#32. I have lived in Toledo, Ohio, off and on throughout my entire life, and I have plenty of friends who are union members. Sometimes we agree politically and sometimes not, but it has never kept us from being friends.
Joe Wurzelbacher
#33. I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.
Benjamin Disraeli
#34. I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my throat. A man has to have a gizzard like an ostrich to digest all the brass-tacks and wire nails of modern art theories.
D.H. Lawrence
#35. In all the years that I have lived, the time that I have spent with you has been the most exquisite ... and this moment, our first dance, I will never forget if I live forever.
Amy A. Bartol
#36. I have lived for a long time inside a series of coincidences that most people would find implausible in a novel.
Alexander Chee
#37. He did not hang on the cross and shout, "Now live as I have lived!" He shouted, "It is finished!
Tullian Tchividjian
#38. I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.
Katharine Hepburn
#39. I have been to the theater more since I have lived in New York than I ever really did in London working on a television show.
Richard C. Armitage
#40. If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.
Joseph Lelyveld
#42. I have lived my life so frightened of pain it's been paralyzing. I hate pain, but I hate fear more, and I've eaten fear every day of my life because of the Forgetting.
Sharon Cameron
#43. Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#44. I have lived the American dream, and that is the dream I want for our children and all children everywhere.
Mike Medavoy
#45. I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.
Lionel Blue
#46. I have lived in worlds beyond counting and countries as strange and wonderful as the dance of dust in sunbeams, because I have lived in books.
Garon Whited
#47. But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity in the places where I have lived.
Philip O Ceallaigh
#48. If, at the end of my days, the sum of what I've taken exceeds the sum of what I've given, then I have lived in vain.
Doug Rice
#49. I have lived in Norfolk all my life. It inspires me, the sea, the limitless skies, the mud and the burning sunsets and the freedom of a place where more than 50% of the neighbours are fish.
Raffaella Barker
#50. I have lived my life very openly, and have never hidden the fact that I am gay!
Jonathan Knight
#51. I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
Os Guinness
#52. I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.
Jackie Chan
#53. I have fought my fight, I have lived my life,
I have drunk my share of wine;
From Trier to Coln there was never a knight
Led a merrier life than mine.
Charles Kingsley
#54. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
John Dryden
#55. Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.
Thomas Jefferson
#56. I've had an amazing career and amazing blessings. But I'm an everyday person, and I have lived an everyday life, and I drive an everyday car.
Marcia Gay Harden
#57. Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now let
me die, for I have lived long enough.
William Shakespeare
#58. I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.
Lord Dunsany
#59. I shall die ... as I have lived, rationalist, socialist, pacifist, and humanitarian.
Henry Stephens Salt
#60. I have lived most of my life in Paris, but I have a connection with Rome that I have with no other place. I'm attached by invisible strings.
Darius Khondji
#61. I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.
Josh Billings
#62. T'sain shrugged. "I have lived little, and I am not wise. Yet I know that everyone is entitled to life.
Jack Vance
#63. And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.
Lester B. Pearson
#64. I have lived as I am! Right now I am everything that I am!
Yukiru Sugisaki
#65. I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response.
Charlton Heston
#66. I have had no control over my life. I have lived in a complete bubble. They found me and picked me for the part. And now I'm desperately trying to find my way through it.
Emma Watson
#67. I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.
Truman Capote
#68. My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people I only knew in my heart, places I have seen only for a moment and places I have lived all my life.
Justin Hayward
#69. I am very thankful that I have lived the life I have lived. I am thankful for my Graves' disease, and I tell people, if I had my whole life to live over, I would have it, because it has really made me into the person that I am.
Gail Devers
#70. I have a body too young and a mind full of years. Everything in me has witnessed its own ending. I have lived through nightmares and perished in blissful dreams. What all that's left - eats me from within but still melts me from without, and that is where my humility takes birth.
Akif Kichloo
#71. Dear little house that I have lived in, there is happiness you have seen, even before I was born. In you is my life, and all the people I have loved are a part of you, so to go out of you, and leave you, is to leave myself.
Richard Llewellyn
#72. This is really enlightening. I didn't know life was supposed to be easy. How could I have lived all these years and not realized life was supposed to be easy? I feel really stupid now.
Amanda Usen
#75. Getting rid of most of my personal library comported nicely with my longheld fantasy of traveling light, existing with minimal encumbrances, living simply. A fantasy it has always been, for the longr I have lived, the heavier has my equipage grown.
Joseph Epstein
#76. I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.
Leni Riefenstahl
#77. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives ... our vicarious way
to feel alive.
V.C. Andrews
#78. Before I die, I want to make sure I have lived.
Mary Papas
#79. I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. I shall continue to serve until my last breath, and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
Indira Gandhi
#80. It seems like I have lived a lifetime in just one day.
Siobhan Davis
#82. I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.
William Shakespeare
#83. I have lived in Kentucky all of my life. I am married to my high school sweetheart, David, a local police captain who has no shame in telling his coworkers that he is the inspiration for all of my heroes.
Molly Harper
#84. Each generation has its own dream of beauty. I have lived long enough to watch it change. Just then, he was what all sculptors were reaching after, and only the great achieved.
Mary Renault
#85. Being loved is the most God awful thing I have ever had to live through and I have lived through hell.
A. Giannoccaro
#87. All my life I have lived within the very hours of the hands of love.
Valentinno
#88. Happy is the man who enjoy warmth of the sun and refresh in the breeze, who is secure within and say I have lived to-day.
Kishore Bansal
#89. I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without ... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.
Socrates
#90. I have lived in public as a somewhat recognizable person since I was a teenager. Emails I answer end up posted on sites; pictures of me and someone I just met, taken by a cellphone, literally number in the thousands and are easily accessed.
Henry Rollins
#92. Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
Henrik Ibsen
#93. In my life I have been blessed In my life I have been cursed I have lived the best of times I have suffered the worst Do you know which road you're traveling? Do you know where you want to be? With so many roads to travel, There's just one can set you free.
Ben Harper
#94. I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.
Os Guinness
#95. Just like children, he and the greatwoman Grainger longed, and especially demanded even, that something should happen, or again Parkhearst would cry, "A reward, I must have a reward. A reward for life just as I have lived it.
James Purdy
#96. I have lived with several Zen masters
all of them cats.
Eckhart Tolle
#98. I am more of a doer than a writer. I do not live to write. I write because I have lived.
Thurman P. Banks Jr.
#99. I do not begin to think that I could possibly understand its inner-workings and the deepest truths of the cosmos with the 28 years that I have lived in Central New Jersey of the United States of America.
Chris Matakas
#100. I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.
Ralph Stanley
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