Long Life Quotes

You might get nothing out of it at all except a beautiful, long life where all you did was follow your gorgeous curiosity. And that should be enough too.

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

A long life or a short life are of equal importance to God.

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.

What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life?

I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.

The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood.

I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery.

We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.

This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion.

Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.

As long as you have a window, life is exciting.

Art's too long and life's too short.

Life is long if it is full.

My enemies can take what they want, but my life is mine and so long as I breathe, it has value. I won't ever give up. Not again.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.

Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.

The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.

To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.

I've had a long life and a lot of relationships and not one of them do I wish - well, I take that back - there are a couple I could have done without.

It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.

Making bad decisions and choosing the wrong partner can ruin your life for a long time, perhaps forever.

If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

Mother Teresa, the nun who in the last century dedicated her long life to helping the poor, is now a saint.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

Life is short. Eternity is long.

Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.

He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it.

The secret of health, happiness, and long life: If you simply learn how to accept and express love, you will live longer...be happier...grow healthier. For love is a powerful force.

One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.

Life is short and art is long.

Well, the first two days in prison, I had to go through what life is like when you've been smoking weed for as long as I have and then you stop. Emotionally, it was like I didn't know myself.

We're supposed to lose our friends to time, at an age when we're ready to agree to the terms of having lived a long life. Not now.

Long life will sometimes obscure the star of fame.

If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.

The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Life is short and the nights are long, and tonight I moved on.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!

I don't feel I'll live a long life. That's why I have to get what I can from every day.