All My Life Quotes (page 11)

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• life
• believe
• past

The act of vividly recalling a patch of the past is something that I seem to have been performing with the utmost zest all my life, and I have reason to believe that this almost pathological keenness of the retrospective faculty is a hereditary trait. Vladimir Nabokov

• life
• little
• hard

I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now. Jean Rhys

• life
• to live
• other

I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself. Henry Miller

• life
• travel
• different

I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. Hilaire Belloc

• amazing
• life sayings
• life death

When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement.--from WHEN DEATH COMES Mary Oliver

• love
• life
• you me

How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life! Oscar Wilde

• life
• shall
• sorrow

I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow Wallace Stegner

• life
• waiting
• willfulness

GWENDOLENIf you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. Oscar Wilde

• caring
• great
• people

I've cared for heaps of people, but not to marry them' she said. 'I suppose I'm too fastidious. all my life I've wanted somebody I could look up to, somebody great and big and splendid. Most men are so small.' 'What d; you mean by splendid?' Hewet asked. 'People are-nothing more. Virginia Woolf

• evening
• thinking
• future

To produce the kind of landscape effects Olmsted strived to create required not months but years, even decades. "I have all my life been considering distant effects and always sacrificing immediate success and applause to that of the future," he wrote. "In laying out Central Park we determined to think of no result to be realized in less than forty years. Erik Larson

• book
• life is beautiful
• beautiful love

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book. Patti Smith

• life
• necklace
• necklaces

Blood a necklace on me all my life. Michael Ondaatje

• life
• world
• outside

I shall be a clinger to the outsides of worlds all my life. Virginia Woolf

• life
• feeling
• thoughts

How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• play
• hard
• author

If you can, trap me. I'll make a good patient because I was brought up in the environment of authority; it's going to be hard to pull me in though- I've been running all my life, playing truant. If you can capture me I'll buckle down. I'll loathe you in secret and put on a good face. Derek Jarman