Life Half Lived Quotes

#1. A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

Carrie Hope Fletcher

#2. Life is full of scary things," he used to tell Kat. "The trick is not to let your fears get in the way of your living. Whatever else you do, Katherine, don't settle for a life half-lived.

C.S. Harris

#3. Don't wait for the right time to do what your heart craves. The right time may never come. In the end, there is nothing more dreadful than the doom of a half-lived life.

Yveta Germano

#4. In Two Parts You come and go so easily, your life is as you knew - while mine is split in two. How I envy so the half of me, who lived before love's due, who was yet to know of you.

Lang Leav

#5. If we could love and hate with as good heart as the faeries do, we might grow to be long-lived like them. But until that day their untiring joys and sorrows must ever be one-half of their fascination. Love with them never grows weary, nor can the circles of the stars tire out their dancing feet.

W.B.Yeats

#6. You haven't lived until you've grieved. Death, life, together, the same. And if you've only experienced life you're only half-alive.

Jeff Salyards

#7. He'd somehow lived a detached life, more Like a spectator than a participant in his own existence.

Guillaume Musso

#8. In February I secured permission to enter Osama bin Laden's compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed and where he had lived for the last half-decade of his life; the first, and only, journalist to do so.

Peter L. Bergen

#9. While I looked, my inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose; I had a sudden feeling as if I, who never yet truly lived, were at last about to taste life. In that morning my soul grew as fast as Jonah's gourd.

Charlotte Bronte

#10. I sort of lived half my life in California, half in England, so I am, I suppose, a little bit American.

Alice Eve

#11. It shows how long-lived anger is, the desire for vengeance: it has a nuclear half-life, and it teaches people patience in the most sinister way.

Claire Messud

#12. Fame can take a toll on your personal life. Half of us were in short-lived marriages or not married at all. When you are doing something you love so much that you once did for free, and then someone pays you to do it, it's like a blessing. But you have to be prepared for it.

Big Bank Hank

#13. [M]y inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose. I had a sudden feeling as if I, who never yet truly lived, were at last about to taste life.

Charlotte Bronte

#14. His unlived life worried him, tortured him, turning round and round inside him like an animal in a cage. In Dodo's body, the body of a half-wit, somebody was growing old, although he had not lived; somebody was maturing to a death that had no meaning at all.

Bruno Schulz

#15. We never know when our last day on earth will be. So, love with full sincerity, believe with true faith, and hope with all of your might. Better to have lived in truth and discovered life, than to have lived half heartedly and died long before you ever ceased breathing.

Cristina Marrero

#16. My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.

Kate Christensen

#17. Do not be afraid of death. Be afraid of the half-lived life!

Laird Hamilton

#18. In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs and half a candle, One old jug without a handle- These were all the worldly goods.

Edward Lear

#19. I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.

Sheena Easton

#20. I moved out of my house at 17 and half, I rented an apartment ... I pulled all the things off. It was pretty amazing and I lived a pretty good life, I had a car and I was making good money.

Eric Hernandez

#21. A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn't. (356)

Victoria Moran

#22. If not for my diaries, I would swear I had lived only half as long as I have. Long periods of my life seem to have vanished. And now I read the passages and wonder who I was when I wrote them, for I cannot remember the events of my life. There are times I sit and wonder where it all has gone.

Nicholas Sparks

#23. I lived in New York for eleven and a half years and I don't think anybody ever asked me about my religion. I never even thought about it. Now, all of a sudden, it was the big thing in my life.

Judy Blume

#24. One's forty, one has lived more than half one's life, the world is marvellous and mysterious. And yet one spends four hours chattering about nothing at Tantamount House. Why should triviality be so fascinating? Or is there something else besides the triviality that draws one?

Aldous Huxley

#25. Open wide your heart and accept all the experiences of life. Don't let any moment go half-lived. Live with greatness even in moments of sadness and pain. It is no shame to trip and fall as you walk the path of life. Just get up and continue on your way.

Ilchi Lee

#26. A life lived at less than its full potential is a life half wasted.

Tony Clark

#27. Live life as it was meant to be lived. Half asleep, preferably.

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She preferred [...] to go to sleep at once, sleep now being one of the very few aspects of existence for which she felt any degree of enthusiasm [...]

Jonathan Coe

#28. In life I've rung all changes through,
Run every pleasure down,
'Midst each excess of folly too,
And lived with half the town.

Anthony Trollope

#29. Except that it was no more home, just the place where he had grown up, and that first day back, touring the once familiar places only made him realize that he had already lived close to half his life.

David Morrell

#30. I've lived in California for half of my life. It's weird, everyone thinks of me as this guy who's from the South ... I'm really a Californian.

Billy Bob Thornton

#31. I became part of a little study group in community college and started caring about strangers. It gave me insight into what an asshole I was. I saw that I had only lived half of a life.

Dan Harmon

#32. I have lived half of my life in Paris, not the half the made me but the half in which I made what I made.

Gertrude Stein

#33. I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American. I was a full-fledged New Yorker.

Mohsin Hamid

#34. I realized that I've lived half my life already, and it's time to believe in - and stand up for - myself.

Phoebe Snow

#35. 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,