Top 100 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. If you live long enough there's no line that you won't cross.
Tracy Manaster
#3. The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards eventually.
Kirk Douglas
#4. Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
Barry Manilow
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.
I. F. Stone
#8. 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
#9. You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction.
Robert Breault
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. Mathematicians grow very old; it is a healthy profession. The reason you live long is that you have pleasant thoughts. Math and physics are very pleasant things to do.
Dirk Jan Struik
#13. If you live long enough, sooner or later everybody you know has cancer.
George Carlin
#14. Anyway, don't let it sour your chance of enjoying your husband. He made a mistake, and so will you if you live long enough.
Kianna Alexander
#15. If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
Simone De Beauvoir
#16. If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
Bill Clinton
#17. I don't think that most women have to prove that they're real women. You live long enough, you graduate to being real.
Charles Baxter
#18. I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.
George Clooney
#19. Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it.
H. Rider Haggard
#20. Harvey Dent: You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
Harvey Dent
#21. Well, if you live long enough, you lose a lot. Just as long as you don't throw them away. Whatever you loose, you'll find again, but what you throw away you never get back.
-Oibore (Enishi's dad) to Yahiko and Misao
Nobuhiro Watsuki
#22. Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing.
S. Jay Olshansky
#23. Even through my good-looking youth, I wasn't called on for any romantic parts, which is okay. What I was called on to do, I enjoyed doing. The funny thing about life is that if you live long enough, I think, you'll get every wish you ever had. It'll all come true.
Morgan Freeman
#24. I wish I was dead, or that it were tomorrow night," groaned Phil.
"If you live long enough both wishes will come true," said Anne calmly.
L.M. Montgomery
#25. If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen.
George Halas
#26. You live long enough, you lose enough people, you learn to appreciate the memories you have.
Nicholas Sparks
#27. If you, like me, lived through 1973-74 or even the early 1990s ... There was a waiting list to get OUT of the country club - that's when you know things are tough. If you live long enough, you'll see it.
Charlie Munger
#28. My child, I bless you from my heart that you live long, attain devotion, and enjoy peace. Peace is the principal thing. One needs peace alone.
Sarada Devi
#29. Fun to think about," Cole said, straining to sound brave. "You get used to it," Jace said. "If you live long enough." "You should become a motivational speaker." Jace grinned.
Brandon Mull
#30. Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.
Tracy Chevalier
#31. I'm telling you, Dena, when you live long enough to see your children begin to look at you with different eyes, and you can look at them not as your children, but as people, it's worth getting older with all the creaks and wrinkles.
Fannie Flagg
#32. I've had this pain. To tell you it will go away would be a lie. It will never go away. But, if you live long enough, it will cease to torture and will instead flavor you. As we rely on the bitterness of strong tea to wake us, this too will become something you can use.
Eli Brown
#33. If you live long enough, you learn time is an illusion created by men who fear death. The clocks and watches worshipped by those who deny the inevitable. There is power in acknowledging we are not the ones in control.
Amber Kizer
#34. May you live long, but not in good health.
Stephen King
#35. And the gods did not kill for hubris-for hubris, they let you live long enough to learn.
Alexander Chee
#36. If you live long enough, uyou'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
By William J. Clinton
Laura McClure
#38. I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. That's what I try to remember.
Hillary Clinton
#39. I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle.
Harriet Walter
#40. Life teaches you how to live it - if you live long enough.
Tony Bennett
#41. Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.
Gil Scott-Heron
#42. Life's a great thing, but if you live long enough, it wears out before it runs out.
Stephen King
#43. If you live long enough, Bill - it's a world of epilogues, Richard Abbott said.
John Irving
#45. 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.
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. Cross-country skiing is fine as long as you live in a small country.
Steven Wright
#51. You don't know how long you have, do what makes you happy. Live. Love and be remarkable.
Will Kostakis
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. Life can seem either very long or very short, according to how you live it.
Paulo Coelho
#60. If you could figure out how to live with family then you'd gone a long way toward finding your peace.
Ben Fountain
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. You will always be here with me; As long as I live, A towering figure of love.
May Sarton
#76. Live long enough and you'll come into pensions, a lovely thing. Presents every month from people you didn't know cared.
Ruth Gordon
#77. Beware, so long as you live, or judging men by their outwards appearance.
Jean De La Fontaine
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#82. 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
#83. As long as you are focused on your own problems, you live and think as a self-centered man.
Sunday Adelaja
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?
Mignon McLaughlin
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. No sorrow will live in me as long as that joy
save one, and I thank you for that, too.
Peter S. Beagle
#96. 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
#97. Take care of yourselves, and live as long as you can, and do all the good you can.
Brigham Young
#98. 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
#99. "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
#100. 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
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