Top 72 Quotes About Longest Life
#1. The longest life is no more than a sliver of light between two boundless ribbons of dark, like the light you see through the chinks of a log cabin at sunrise. And that last ribbon of dark, the one that comes after you are gone, that one goes on until the end of time.
Jack Todd
#2. The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.
Walter Scott
#3. There are few things that can reconcile us fully to our parting with a world of which the longest life can see so little and whose beauties have so extraordinary a variety.
Freya Stark
#5. Every life has a purpose. The longest life has many stories to tell of the opportunities to witness God's hand. The shortest life holds the eternal treasure of impacting lives as a testimony of God's creation because of a precious heartbeat.
Amy E. Tobin
#6. If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition.
Charles Caleb Colton
#7. Children are the greatest philosophers : the questions that children ask require the deepest of thoughts and the longest of reflections on life!
Avijeet Das
#8. Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Robert Southey
#9. After the most amazing head I've ever gotten in my life over the longest period of time imaginable, I climax into Isa's mouth and she drinks me up like what I'm offering is life sustaining.
Ella Dominguez
#10. Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.
Jean De La Bruyere
#11. We have been going over the proposal and possible concessions for the longest ninety minutes of my life. And I saw Battlefield Earth.
Qwen Salsbury
#12. We live but a short time, at the longest. How do we make our lives mean something? If we die in glory, with our minds and our hearts fixed on achieving a great goal, we have lived a life that mattered.
Elizabeth Berg
#13. Life isn't about living the longest; it's about living the most.
Cory Groshek
#14. Your story is the greatest legacy that you will leave to your friends.It's the longest-lasting legacy you will leave to your heirs.
Steve Saint
#15. The bed was warm and ordinary and perfect, and it had been such a long, long day. Probably the longest day of my life. I felt like I had proof that not all days are the same length, not all time has the same weight. Proof that there are worlds and worlds and worlds on top of worlds,
Carol Rifka Brunt
#16. I'm pretty sure I'm the only author who intends to take the longest possible route to a destination that will always be over the next hill.
Fennel Hudson
#17. For it is one thing to declare one's love for someone and quite another to accept that loving that person requires sacrificing one's dreams.
Nicholas Sparks
#18. What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?
Walt Whitman
#19. In the longest run of all, your life, you're going to be a winner.
Amby Burfoot
#20. My maternal grandmother was the longest-lived of my grandparents. She migrated to Australia in her 80s and lived into her 90s. It was great that she got to be part of my adult life.
Nick Earls
#21. The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life.
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
#23. We had the longest kisses under the Acacia tree.
Avijeet Das
#24. I so badly wanted to fit into their world. For the longest time, I've dreamt about living a life of a social butterfly, of being one of them. Now, I'm repulsed by the mere idea of mingling with them.
M.A. Abraham
#25. Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#26. The happiest, healthiest, and longest lasting relationships happen when each partner is secure and whole within themselves.
Pamela Cummins
#27. It is in the little moments that we live the longest. Everything else is existence.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#28. One doth but break-fast here, another dine; he that lives longest does but suppe; we must all goe to bed in another World.
Joseph Henshaw
#29. By the Virgin, it was the longest, most torturous week of his life! William would much rather roar into battle and take on an army than wait, helpless. The Lion ached to feel blood on his claws. He was thirsty for it. It
Eli Easton
#30. This has been the freakin' longest night of my life," I said with dismay. "Yeah," he replied. "And it's not over yet.
D.J. MacHale
#31. Sometimes life seems like a match between oneself and one's gaolors. The gaolers, of course, are one's mistakes; and the question is, who'll hold out longest? When I think of that, life instead of being too long, seems as short as a winter day ...
Edith Wharton
#32. Although I understand that all days are equal with 24 hours each, most of us agree that Friday is the longest day of the week and Sunday the shortest!
D.S. Mixell
#33. The longest walk of your life does not happen when you walk great distances lonely but it happens when you walk very shortly with the boring people!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#34. I'd never reacted to a girl this way before. My body was on fire when I was around Rose, and when I wasn't with her, all I did was think about her. Today had been the longest day of my life, dragging on forever until it was finally time to go meet her in the field.
Karen Ann Hopkins
#35. My first game, I played the first play of the game and called a timeout and got sat down, got benched for the rest of the game, and we won the game. It was the longest day of my life. Long day. Very embarrassing.
Mike Singletary
#36. That that life which any the longest liver, or the shortest liver parts with, is for length and duration the very same, for that only which is present, is that, which either of them can lose, as being that only which they have; for that which he hath not, no man can truly be said to lose.
Marcus Aurelius
#37. We shared the longest ride together, this thing called life,
Nicholas Sparks
#38. Sometimes in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest journey you have ever taken. It is the journey to find yourself.
Katharine Sharp
#39. Good things happen to those who wait. It's the waiting that takes the longest.
Shellie Palmer
#40. Christendom is not primarily a mental construct. It is above all a fact, indeed the longest historical experience the Church has had. Hence the deep impact it has made on its life and thought.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#41. I've always liked wrinkles. When I was a young girl, I used to make lines on my face with my nails because I loved Jeanne Moreau. I always wanted to be older; I always added years to my life. For the longest time, if people thought I was older, I would take it as a compliment.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#43. I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever.
Rhys Ifans
#44. I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
Nas
#45. Judy's friend that she has known the longest has just broken up with her boyfriend and is depressed. Judy likes her more now that she is depressed and feels unmotivated in life. Judy feels unmotivated in life.
Ellen Kennedy
#46. I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.
Vik Muniz
#47. Life's the longest picture you're ever gonna take.
Ben Harper
#48. Japan. So successful was the Japanese 'welfare superpower' that by the 1970s life expectancy in Japan had become the longest in the world. But that, combined with a falling birth rate, has produced the world's oldest society, with more than 21 per cent of the population already over the age of 65.
Niall Ferguson
#49. With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.
Marge Piercy
#50. All of Creation's a farce.
Man was born as a joke.
In his head his reason is buffeted
Like wind-blown smoke.
Life is a game.
Everyone ridicules everyone else.
But he who has the last laugh
Laughs longest.
William Shakespeare
#51. Every adult should be an expert on teenagers, after spending life's seven longest years being one.
Cullen Hightower
#52. Believe me, it is the sign of a great man, and one who is above human error, not to allow his time to be frittered away: he has the longest possible life simply because whatever time was available he devoted entirely to himself.
Seneca.
#53. As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.
Samuel Johnson
#54. It was the longest, most exquisite high of my life, but the hangover came first.
Dan Harris
#55. His voice, even now, follows me everywhere on this longest of rides, this thing called life.
Nicholas Sparks
#56. Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
Booth Tarkington
#57. The pediatric autodoc scanned him, considered for the longest five seconds of Naomi's life, and declared the baby safely within standard error.
James S.A. Corey
#58. Life is brief, even at its longest. Whatever you are going to do with your life, get at it. All good will be attacked. All values must be defended. In all areas of the human existence, what we put into this world, we get back from it.
Jim Rohn
#59. The longest, most solid and complex relationship in my life is with my mother. It started before I was born, and now, when I am 71 and living in California and she is 92 and living in Chile, we are still in touch daily.
Isabel Allende
#60. Well, it does make you realize that life, even at its longest, is still very short.
Kaira Rouda
#61. The communities and countries best at using energy to optimize a microclimate for human life are also the ones whose people have the longest average lifespans. Canada, Sweden, and Iceland - places with inhospitable winter weather - are frontrunners in sustaining human health and life.
Chris Hadfield
#63. When the longest- and shortest-lived of us dies their loss is precisely equal. For the sole thing of which any of us can be deprived is the present, since this is all we own, and nobody can lose what is not theirs.
Marcus Aurelius
#64. The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother.
Vikrmn
#65. Explore your limits and get to know yourself. You'll never feel more real than after the hardest workout, the longest run, the toughest week, or the best race of your life. Constantly make your own standards tougher.
Luke Watson
#66. The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#67. The creek was hers now and yet she felt nothing. It had been the longest walk of her life for no one was at the end waiting for her. She slept through winter. Missed Christmas and awoke to a New Year. She felt so lost. Until the first bluebells and ramsons colored the green-brown floor of her world.
Sarah Winman
#68. If I only had 12 years left to live, I'd want to live it as a member of Congress because that was the 12 longest years of my life.
Mike Pence
#69. I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me.
Nella Larsen
#70. When you have the Holy Spirit living inside of you, you possess a resource that can give you abundant life through the longest siege of the enemy. The enemy can camp at your doorstep for an indefinite period of time and it won't matter to you. The Holy Spirit is your indwelling source of
David Jeremiah
#71. The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death ... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.
Epicurus
#72. Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.
Randy Bachman
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