You Live Long Quotes

#1. Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.

Gloria Swanson

#2. You're immortal as long as you live.

Terence McKenna

#3. No matter how long you live, no matter how mature or philosophical you may grow to be, almost all sudden enlightenment will feel precisely this way, like a boot in the stomach, like acid on your tongue, and the sooner you accept this the better off you'll be.

Ron Currie Jr.

#4. Don't try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won't live long enough to find out about, but I'm still curious about them. You know people who are already saying, 'I'm going to be 30 - oh, what am I going to do?' Well, use that decade! Use them all!

Betty White

#5. A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

A.C. Grayling

#6. I love touring, I love doing the live show and it's just like a musical artist, you just keep coming up with material and as long as you're coming up with the material and as long as audiences like it, you just keep doing it, it's your job.

Jeff Dunham

#7. If you live long enough there's no line that you won't cross.

Tracy Manaster

#8. The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.

Myles Munroe

#9. Cross-country skiing is fine as long as you live in a small country.

Steven Wright

#10. You don't know how long you have, do what makes you happy. Live. Love and be remarkable.

Will Kostakis

#11. You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.

Ernst Lubitsch

#12. Bobbie wondered if that's how long you truly live for - until the last person who remembers you, until the final bouquet on your grave.

James Dawson

#13. I learned my lesson that in the live-action world, you have to earn the support of people over a very, very long time. And in animation, I already have the support.

Henry Selick

#14. There are a million things out there that can kill you, and about half of them are invisible. If you're going to stick your body parts into them just to see what will happen, even after I've warned you about them, then you won't live long, and you certainly can't work on my ship.

J.Z. Colby

#15. May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

Lord Chesterfield

#16. I spent thirty-three years in another man's shadow. I went everywhere he went, I helped him with everything he did. I was in a sense a part of him. When you live like that for a long time, you gradually lose track of what it is you yourself really want out of life

Haruki Murakami

#17. The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards eventually.

Kirk Douglas

#18. Just remember, what the French say. No, probably not the French, they've got a president or something. The Brits, maybe, or the Swedes. You know what I mean?"
"No, Matthew. What do they say?"
"The king is dead, that's what they say. The king is dead. Long live the king.

Neil Gaiman

#19. Life can seem either very long or very short, according to how you live it.

Paulo Coelho

#20. If you could figure out how to live with family then you'd gone a long way toward finding your peace.

Ben Fountain

#21. As long as you are alive, you will either live to accomplish your own goals and dreams or be used as a resource to accomplish someone else's.

Grant Cardone

#22. You are a Christian only so long as you constantly pose critical questions to the society you live in, so long as you stay unsatisfied with the status quo, and keep saying that a new world is yet to come.

Henri Nouwen

#23. Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.

Barry Manilow

#24. After a long discussion of the country's woes, the interviewer asked Bobby, "But you are an optimist?" Kennedy nodded and smiled his weary-eyed smile. "Just because you can't live any other way, can you?" he replied.

David Talbot

#25. For a reason or a season,' he said. 'For a year or a lifetime. For a poem or a song. For a victorious battle or a bloody death. For honor. I would stand by you for as long as I might live.

Faith Hunter

#26. It's awful to think that I shall probably never, as long as I live, see you dancing like that again all by yourself.

Evelyn Waugh

#27. In our day, a vast majority of people is dependent either on an employer or the government-or both. One way to rate your level of independence might be to measure how long you can survive, feed your family and live in your home after your employer stops paying you anything.

Oliver DeMille

#28. Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be. Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.

Erich Fromm

#29. You have to believe in its principles. Anything is possible, as long as it's for the good of the world. Make the exception. Live exceptionally. And if you can't do that, maybe we should consider whether you're right for the project. Think about it, then let's talk tomorrow.

Amy Tan

#30. A lot of mistakes, but all of them in the past. Some made with worthy intentions, some without. When you live a long time you get to collect a lot of mistakes.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#31. 3 Because your x steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. 4 So I will bless you y as long as I live;

Anonymous

#32. I forewarn you, this will be a rather long talk. I am an old man. I do not know how much longer I will live, and so I want to say what I have to say, while I have the strength to say it ... Having been warned, some of you will wish to get comfortable. Pleasant dreams.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#33. Life can become a celebration if you know how to live without concern. Otherwise life becomes a long prolonged disease, an illness which culminates only in death.

Osho

#34. I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a writer.

Cynthia Ozick

#35. You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way. That's why I have to watch myself when I get isolated for too long.

Fiona Apple

#36. You will always be here with me; As long as I live, A towering figure of love.

May Sarton

#37. Live long enough and you'll come into pensions, a lovely thing. Presents every month from people you didn't know cared.

Ruth Gordon

#38. Beware, so long as you live, or judging men by their outwards appearance.

Jean De La Fontaine

#39. Jealousy is an uncontrollable emotion. It attacks all of us. As long as you don't let it get the best of you, I'm sure you and your envy can live in harmony without anyone getting hurt. So, see? There's no need to feel bad about it. It makes you normal. Human.

Linda Kage

#40. But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.

Anonymous

#41. In a world where very few people care if you live or die, there is a light that shines in the distance. It has a name that they call hope and it carries with it people that never stop caring. They learned long ago that extending mercy was not a choice, but a place where God lives.

Shannon L. Alder

#42. No matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me

Alexandre Dumas-fils

#43. You know, we have a long history of covering different periods of this band's development with a live record ... a sort of live thing that would be done for three or four records, and that was the intention with this particular package.

Alex Lifeson

#44. As long as you are focused on your own problems, you live and think as a self-centered man.

Sunday Adelaja

#45. Every Betrayal begins with trust-Phish
Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today-James Dean
Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live-Anonymous

Brian Jacques

#46. Life's like a book: What matters is the hook.
Be it short or long, just live it strong.
Whether it's five stars, or how near or far, just soar!

Ana Claudia Antunes

#47. You like rock?
Little boy, I'm not your friend. I'm not your Dark-Hunter and I'm not your friggin' date. You only speak to me when I ask you a question. Otherwise you keep your mouth shut, your eyes off me, and you might live long enough to get me to the French Quarter. (Zarek)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#48. The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live long enough, as you're increasingly likely to do, you may well join it.

Nancy Mairs

#49. There outside there is a lot of stuff which you learn, the clock illusion, that you live in the past, that you can survive without a brain but not for long period...What Is Consciousness? And many other stuff... (so the question which has left, do you have the time to do it?)

Deyth Banger

#50. Secrets, however long they are kept, usually still manage to be brought to light. The best you can hope for is that you'll be in control of when a secret gets out, not if it does."

-Melody in CHIMERA-

Vaun Murphrey

#51. I feel weird spilling it now but have to. Because after a while, it took root, the way shared stories do when you live with them long enough. They affect your DNA like radiation. They give birth to you.

Kelly J. Cogswell

#52. It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?

Mignon McLaughlin

#53. We've tried to live in balance with nature long enough. This time nature went too far. As soon as you and your fiance are safely out of here, I'm calling in an air strike to napalm this whole forest.

Mykle Hansen

#54. I'll never retire as long as I live - that's like retiring from life! I'll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you're in good health, living is exciting on its own.

Bel Kaufman

#55. I guess that's all forever is ... Just one long trail of nows. And I guess all you can do is try and live one now at a time without getting too worked up about the last now or the next now.

Nicholas Evans

#56. The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First Saying: 'So long as I'm full, what is it to me if others die of hunger?' The Second Saying: 'You suffer hardship so that I can live in ease; you work so that I can eat.'

Said Nursi

#57. No sorrow will live in me as long as that joy
save one, and I thank you for that, too.

Peter S. Beagle

#58. You'll live for as long as you live, and once you stop living, you don't have to worry about staying alive any more because you'll be dead.

Sebastyne Young

#59. Take care of yourselves, and live as long as you can, and do all the good you can.

Brigham Young

#60. You know the Prince song where the girl's phone rings but she tells him, "whoever's calling couldn't be as cute as you?" I long to live out this moment in real life.

Rob Sheffield

#61. "I'm alive. You're alive. I gotta work to live so I do that and I'll have to do that for a long lime. But when I'm not workin', I'm livin'. So let's ride."

Kristen Ashley

#62. I just know there's no way to live without pain
no matter how long or short your life is. People let you down. You get hurt and do damage in return.

Leigh Bardugo

#63. No,' he said, 'you only have to live long enough to inspire others to do great things.

Richard Paul Evans

#64. Please stop hiding and actually live your life." He pauses long enough to squeeze my shoulder. "It's killing me to watch you fade into the background.

Aly Martinez

#65. The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given you; what you love will be yours for ever.

Pope Leo I

#66. Love as the moon loves the night.
Love as much as you can.
Love as long as you can.
Love as long as you live.
Live only as long as you can love.

Debasish Mridha

#67. People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.

Albert Einstein

#68. As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just ... get better.

Romain Gary

#69. You heard me cry long before I knew my voice.

A.D. Posey

#70. May your life be rich in blessings and poor in misfortunes. May you see your children's children grow up and make you proud. May your fights be short, your laughter loud, and your passion hot. May you live long and die happy.

Ilona Andrews

#71. Music is the only thing that you can share with a million million people and you don't lose, you gain. It helps you to get energy and to live long, because when your soul is very happy then you don't want to die.

Ali Akbar Khan

#72. To have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, as long as you both shall live, including accidental or intentional immortality?

Chloe Neill

#73. However some things may look queer to you, remember that the world is a beautiful rainbow with many colours! No colours, no rainbow! No rainbow, no beauty! Long live the queerness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#74. If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

I. F. Stone

#75. To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.

Leo Tolstoy

#76. When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages.

Ruskin Bond

#77. Oh my God, the luxuries we have in America. We just don't even realize because you live in it long enough and you come to expect it, but when you get to take a step outside of it you really, really get to recognize how blessed we are and how much we have.

Lindsey McKeon

#78. I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.

Virgil Thomson

#79. I love you, storm girl," I said. "I'd love to live in Mirror Lake with you. I'd love to work on the Spiral Project with you. I'd love to chase storms, outrun tornados, fix trucks, drive all over the country. Whatever you need me to do, I'll do it. As long as I'm with you.

Nina Lane

#80. To live is to change, and if you have lived long, you have changed often.

John Henry Newman

#81. You said the other day life was long,' I shot back. 'Which is it?'
'It's both,' she said, shrugging. 'It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing.'
Kristy and Macy; p.135

Sarah Dessen

#82. I measure the coffee exactly. Pour in the water. As the flavor bursts, she surrenders. "Oh, you are old for such a long time!" She frets over the sugar bowl in the center of a tin tray. "You think it won't happen to you, but it will. You may live a long time, but most of life is old, old, old!

Brock Cole

#83. I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can.

Harrison Ford

#84. You can be the greatest at stringing words together but if you don't mean what you say your words will not live long in this world.

Jason E. Hodges

#85. You live like this long enough, a life without chances, you lose your bearings. A life without danger. A life without the risk of Now. In any event, what do I need with Now? Now, I think, is overrated. Now hasn't been working out so great for me. Now never has.

Charles Yu

#86. The Timeline of a Life being Long or Short, is Computed on the Benchmark of How You Live It ...

Saurabh Dudeja

#87. You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction.

Robert Breault

#88. It's not about how long you can live , it's about how long you can forget and forgive.

Abdel Halim Boudekhana

#89. Be slow to anger and quick to forgive, and you will have friends for as long as you live.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#90. Always make sure you have your rent. At the end of the month, if you have to eat Ramen for a week because you won't have your rent money, just do it but make sure your rent is all there so you're not stressing about that. As long as you have your rent at least you have somewhere to live.

Beth Behrs

#91. Rather let your longing be to glorify God by your life down here as long as He pleases, even though you live in the midst of toil and conflict and suffering. Leave Him to say when it is enough.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#92. Why do you want to live so long?

Brian B. Tuch

#93. Come back to me, to my bed. Where we can make love. Every single night. For as long as we both shall live. That's the vow you made. Remember? Well, it's time to prove you meant it. Come back and stay. Forever. That's my offer. Take it or leave it.

Magda Alexander

#94. Three things never anger or you'll not live for long;
A wolf with cubs,
A man with power, And a woman's sense of wrong.

Mercedes Lackey

#95. If you live long enough as a parent, you discover that you have made mistakes you didn't bother to know about as well as the ones you do know about, all too well. You are somewhat humbled at heart, sometimes disgusted with yourself. I don't think my father felt anything like this.

Alice Munro

#96. You're mine, damn ye, Claire Fraser! Mine, and I wilna share ye, with a man or a memory, or anything whatever, so long as both shall live.

Diana Gabaldon

#97. When you live in the dark for so long, you begin to love it. And it loves you back, and isn't that the point? You think, the face turns to the shadows, and just as well. It accepts, it heals, it allows. But it also devours.

Raymond Carver

#98. I've discovered most Christians don't know what to do with difficult situations because they have bought into the lie that God owes us (for our good behaviour). The reality of life is that if you live long enough you are going to bleed, cry and hurt. AND God is still God IN that.

Matt Chandler

#99. Yet, I can still love you and set you free. But you will always carry my love with you when you go, and forever. That piece of my love is yours for as long as you live.

Audrey Carlan

#100. I will be your neighbour, your nurse, your housekeeper. I find you lonely: I will be your companion
to read to you, to walk with you, to sit with you, to wait on you, to be eyes and hands to you. Cease to look so melancholy, my dear master; you shall not be left desolate, so long as I live.

Charlotte Bronte