Quotes About Borrowed Life

#1. But I was - not quite happy. Pending happy. I knew this was not really my life; it was a borrowed life. One that I was temporarily wearing until I could sort out my own.

Maggie Stiefvater

#2. I shed my borrowed life for an hour and put on the borrowed life of the book I'm reading.

David Levithan

#3. Reading was artificial borrowed life, benefiting from ideas and sensations transmitted cerebrally, acquiring the treasures of human truth by purchase or swindle, not by work.

Benito Perez Galdos

#4. I'm just an apprentice, stuck between these borrowed first and last breaths that I was given, drinking water of life, and chasing the fire of knowledge, and waiting to mingle with my eternal and faithful love, earth.

B. Barmanbek

#5. Fools live life; intellectuals only think thoughts arising from borrowed knowledge.
That is why fools enjoy life while so called wise people are busy posting tweets about life.
Unfortunately, I am a wise man.

Saurabh Sharma

#6. This is some sort of joke, isn't it?" asks Hunt, staring at the flawless blue sky and distant fields.
I cough as lightly and briefly as possible into a handkerchief I have made from a towel borrowed from the inn. "Probably," I say. "But then, what isn't?

Dan Simmons

#7. I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.

Ken Livingstone

#8. I feel like my body is borrowed and this life is very temporary.

Beyonce Knowles

#9. Words can be borrowed but thoughts can never be stolen. You are a born thinker.

Kunal Narayan Uniyal

#10. Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking.

Kate Jacobs

#11. The worst thing about this particular end (of my youth) and the beginning (of middle age) is that for the first time in my life, I realize I don't know where I'm going. My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love. And on the eve of my thirteth, I must face that I am 0 for 2.

Emily Giffin

#12. I want to live like there's no tomorrow. Love like I'm on borrowed time. It's good to be alive.

Jason Gray

#13. I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children; who has undertaken to cherish it and do it no damage, not because he is duty-bound, but because he loves the world and loves his children.

Wendell Berry

#14. High in the hazy sky, the snowfkakes looked tiny and all alike, but as they drifted past the narrow window of the sewing room, all were unique - long or round or triangular - as if they'd borrowed their shapes from the clouds they'd come from.

Ursula Hegi

#15. So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future.

Samuel Johnson

#16. It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.

Baltasar Gracian

#17. You can't go through life on "Borrowed light.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#18. There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God.

Herman Melville

#19. Luck is buying a lottery ticket along with your Yoo-hoo and striking it rich. Nothing about my life is lucky- it is all about hard work, it is all uphill struggle.

Emily Giffin

#20. It's one thing to put on your nation's uniform to give your life for your country. But to dress up in black-market khakis and head into battle in a borrowed bush hat, armed only with a Nikon camera, 10 rolls of film and notebook, is definitely another thing.

Peter Arnett

#21. I think that life has brought a lot to fashion, and fashion brings plenty to life. I took my children on photo shoots, at the same time, I borrowed my father's sweater for a photo shoot and, then, I am inspired by a Russian princess because of my Russian roots. Everything is all mixed in together.

Carine Roitfeld

#22. You were formed inside a borrowed womb - a nourishing safe haven for months - then delivered through painful effort and sacrifice by a woman willing to give you the precious gift of life. That truth alone deserves your gratitude and respect.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#23. Life is a Shylock; always it demands The fullest userer's interest for each pleasure. Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands; We make returns for every borrowed treasure.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#24. When you walk this earth on borrowed time, each day on the calendar is a beloved friend you know for only a short time.

Judith Hooper

#25. I don't want to die," she repeated, her voice trembling. "I want to live. I want to live life with all its emotions, all its experiences. I don't want to miss anything. But i feel like i will. I feel like i'm living on borrowed time.

M. Leighton

#26. It is my duty to give back with interest as much as I borrowed from this world.

Debasish Mridha

#27. And the way she smiles at me suspends the rest of the world all around me, makes me feel like I've borrowed another life.

Kelly Loy Gilbert

#28. We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same mechanism used in producing these striking structures that are crystals.

Linus Pauling

#29. Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar's dinner, from a hundred charities?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#30. I learned at an early age that every breath that we take is borrowed. We need to be thankful for our life and never take it for granted.

DeLisha Milton-Jones

#31. want to live like there's no tomorrow. Love like I'm on borrowed time. It's good to be alive." ~ Musician Jason Gray

Jason Gray

#32. Time is the only commodity in life that cannot be bought, sold, borrowed, given out as a gift and it cannot be inherited.

Sunday Adelaja

#33. We can't do justice to our dreams, reworking them in memory. They seem borrowed, part of another life, ours only maybe and only in the farthest margins.

Don DeLillo