Longs Quotes (page 224)

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• love
• lost
• long love

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost. Milan Kundera

• dream
• night
• many

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly. Robert Louis Stevenson

• life
• short
• work

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth. Arthur Schopenhauer

• smile
• longing
• canned

You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth. Chuck Palahniuk

• warrior
• words
• enough

When we turn around & come face to face with our destiny, we discover that words (spoken) are not enough. I know so many people who are brilliant speakers but are quite incapable of practising what they preach. It's one thing to describe a situation & quite another to experience it. I realised a long time ago that a warrior in search of his dream must take his inspiration from what he actually does & not from what he imagines himself doing. Paulo Coelho

• little
• anybody
• resulting

ALGERNONI never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result. Oscar Wilde

• time
• children
• fire

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept. Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes... Ralph Waldo Emerson

• morning
• insanity
• his

I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that every conversation I had with a psychiatrist during the morning visit made me long to hang myself because I was aware that I could not slit his throat. Antonin Artaud

• adventure
• annoying
• little

Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way. Dean Koontz

• house
• reflection
• fun

Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. Or was it me that wavered, stretched, and shrank in the silence? I was warped in the folds of time, like a reflection in a fun house mirror. Haruki Murakami

• history
• pretty
• empire

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes. Alan Moore

• work
• life
• she

Was his life nothing? Had he nothing to show, no work? He did not count his work, anyone could have done it. What had he known, but the long, marital embrace with his wife. Curious, that this was what his life amounted to! At any rate, it was something, it was eternal. He would say so to anybody, and be proud of it. He lay with his wife in his arms, and she was still his fulfillment, just the same as ever. And that was the be-all and the end-all. Yes, and he was proud of it. David Herbert Lawrence

• time
• together
• timing

We’re gonna make up for that. We’re gonna live a long time together. Mitch Albom

• feminist
• movements
• willful

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few. Bell Hooks

• look
• forest
• week

He had had a severe shock some weeks earlier, when, having narrowly failed to capture a large grey-brown hare for his dinner, it had stopped at the edge of the forest, looked at him with disdain, and said, 'Well, I hope you're proud of yourself, that's all,' and had scampered off into the long grass Neil Gaiman