Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become Quote Quotes

As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time. ~ Neil Gaiman

If you close your eyes you see darkness, but if you keep them closed for long enough, you'll see light." -I've once said a similar quote like this to my friend only to realize it's from Skins. It is still my favourite quote until now. ~ Skins

Either you die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain. ~ Christopher J. Nolan

It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers. The trick is to die in between. ~ Don DeLillo

You see flaws in every face
If you look long enough.

That's why I'm so afraid
Of the word 'forever'.

Forever is long enough
For sunrises to become stale
For fire to become tame
For a favorite song
To become like nails
On a chalkboard;

Forever is long enough
For passion to waste away
Like grapes into raisins
Under the beating sun
Of countless days. ~ Justin Wetch

Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness. ~ Alan Garner

Essentially, we humans live well enough and long enough, and are smart enough, to generate all sorts of stressful events purely in our heads. ~ Robert M. Sapolsky

There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long. ~ Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

I fight with love and i laugh with rage ... you gotta live light enough to see the humor, and long enough to see some change ... ~ Ani DiFranco

From Heartbreak Hotel:
(Thalia)" knew how tot focus on what was important and she kept things simple"
"Live long enough and everything becomes. Live long enough and your interests narrow ~ Jonathan Kellerman

Failure starts a future success, if you become better. ~ Troy Clark

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history. ~ Louise Erdrich

If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero. ~ Michael Caine

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny. Live long enough, and you will see: Men resent not the whip so much as the hand that wields it. ~ R. Scott Bakker

And might I live long enough to see the world yet again as a place completely different, through eyes that see another truth not yet revealed? ~ Sharon Shinn

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself. ~ Groucho Marx

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

To live in a world that requires you to become someone else, being yourself is your best choice and most valuable accomplishment."

-Steven Cuoco ~ Steven Cuoco

If You Hang Around with a Bunch of Blunderers Long Enough, you Will Become One Yourself. ~ Ernie J Zelinski

You get what you want and you become its slave. ~ Ljupka Cvetanova

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough. ~ David J. Farber

If you want success, then be your own success story. ~ Steven Cuoco

People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control. ~ Hilton Als

I hope to live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators. ~ Mother Jones

There was a quote about "standing in a river too long or long enough" that I can't find now. Anyone remember? If so, what page? ~ Colum McCann

If you live long enough, sooner or later everybody you know has cancer. ~ George Carlin

What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts. ~ E. O. Wilson

I see who I am, and I am beyond who I was. ~ Steven Cuoco

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

If you manage to live long enough, most of your greatest fears become fond memories to look back on. ~ Ashly Lorenzana

No. Please do not name either child after me, Elayne. Let them live their own lives. My shadow will be long enough as it is.'
-Rand ~ Robert Jordan

After staring at origami directions long enough, you sort of become one with them and start understanding them from the inside. ~ Zooey Deschanel

Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it. ~ H. Rider Haggard

I know that Khalil will be famous one day - a rock star, a basketball hero, a politician who will become the first Arab American President of the United States because he is so beautiful, and he knows suffering, and he will be cured, and I know for sure: he will live long enough to enter a presidential election, he will live long past thirty-five. ~ Miah Arnold

Nothing in the world matters if you don't matter. ~ Steven Cuoco

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

Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad. ~ Rumi

Long live the dreamer inside of me. ~ Nikki Rowe

Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct. ~ Henry Williamson

If you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen. ~ Tracy Kidder

If you think about it long enough, you'll see that it's obvious. ~ Saul Gorn

Life will teach you, but you have to live long enough to get those lessons. ~ Cary Elwes

If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had. ~ I. F. Stone

I'm going to live long enough to live in an America that will assume universal health care is a basic right. That will be amusing and terrific. ~ Anna Quindlen

And for the first time since I woke in the alley--I don't want to die. I want to live. I want to see Miya again, and Matthew and Ashlee and Sammy and Kai. I want to live long enough to see my mom and dad again, and my sister, Lily. ~ Dannielle Wicks

See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else. ~ Jim Butcher

You live long enough, you lose enough people, you learn to appreciate the memories you have. ~ Nicholas Sparks

If you want to conquer the stress,anger and illusion of life, live in the moment, enjoy your breathing, count your blessings. ~ Bhimsen Sapkota

When you're a child, what you see and hear and comprehend can be sorted into little boxes. Then, as you live and learn, all those boxes open up and become rooms. The more you experience, the bigger those rooms get. If you're lucky enough, there are some people you will love, and who will love you, long enough to see their boxes grow into vast spaces. You'll understand things that had no meaning. You'll find dark corners that only light up for the briefest moments. But when you keep getting lost, you just end up with a pile of boxes. ~ Vikki Wakefield

The world we see today is the world we'll see tomorrow if we fail to do something now to change the things we don't like about it. ~ Mayor Deah

You're right John! I can't see you! Your movies aren't in theaters long enough! ~ The Miz

If you live in the dark long enough, you start to forget what light looks like. ~ Rachel Vincent

I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi

The Focal must hold magic, light and dark, together long enough for it to mend."
"How long does it take to mend?"
"No one's survived long enough for us to know."
I could see why people weren't rushing to volunteer. ~ Devon Monk

Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible. ~ Barry Manilow

I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade. ~ Wolfman Jack

You deserve more in your life. Think big. Love more and share beyond your limits. You will then become limitless. ~ Steven Cuoco

Cowards never lasted long enough to become real cowboys. ~ Charles Goodnight

As long as you have money to live then it's not a terribly important thing. If you don't have enough to live, then it's very important thing. ~ Jared Polis

Buffalo Hump knew his son was brave, but that was not enough. If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long. ~ Larry McMurtry

Real leadership is not seeking the applause from followers; real leadership is applauding the followers who become leaders. ~ Onyi Anyado

I suppose we all tend to want the impossible. And sometimes in attempting it we achieve something near enough to the impossible to elicit satisfaction. ~ Julie Anne Long

'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great? ~ Seth Godin

When I see my future, I see you... ~ Swapna Rajput

When you use your imagination, it is a bit like putting on night-vision goggles to see forms in the shadows of your head, heart, and spirit. ~ Deborah Sandella

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe

Listen to me, maggots. Listen for your lives, for that's what it could mean some day. You never see all that you see. One of the things they send you to me for is to show you what you don't see in what you see
what you don't see when you're scared, or fighting or running or fucking. No man sees al that he sees, but before you're gunslinger
those of you who don't go west, that is,
you'll see more in one single glance than some men see in a lifetime. And some of what you don't see in that glance you'll see afterwards, in the eye of your memory
if you live long enough to remember, that is. Because the difference between seeing and not seeing can be the difference between the living and dying. ~ Stephen King

I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy. ~ Corra May Harris

When you can inspire others to dream, learn, evolve, and become one that they can appreciate and respect themselves; then you have arrived as a leader. ~ Vishwas Chavan

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

I think of you, therefore I exist. ~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Before we can count we are taught to be grateful for what others do. As we are broken open by our experience, we begin to be grateful for what is, and if we live long enough and deep enough and authentically enough, gratitude becomes a way of life. ~ Mark Nepo

I dare to believe in the beauty of my dreams, and I use my imagination to see them fulfilled. ~ Steven Cuoco

When we choose to live a heart-centered life, we've chosen to live in the Light. ~ Milan Ljubincic

No need for confusion, my dear Mulgrave [ ... ] Beautiful wine and sour vinegar come from exactly the same source. Curiously if one leaves a bottle of wine open for long enough it will become vinegar. Happily in this house wine never survives long enough to go bad. ~ David Gemmell

Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed. ~ Martha Gellhorn

You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle. ~ Patti Davis

I've lived in L.A. for a long time, and they say, 'If you sit in a barber's shop for long enough, you will get a hair cut.' Well, if you live in Los Angeles for long enough, you're going to get some surgery. ~ Robbie Williams

May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him. ~ Roman Payne

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

Depression catches everyone who lives long enough to be caught. ~ Steve Fowler

Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly. ~ John Gierach

Ever more scholars see cultures as a kind of mental infection or parasite, with humans as its unwitting host. Organic parasites, such as viruses, live inside the body of their hosts. They multiply and spread from one host to the other, feeding off their hosts, weakening them, and sometimes even killing them. As long as the hosts live long enough to pass along the parasite, it cares little about the condition of its host. In just this fashion, cultural ideas live inside the minds of humans. They ~ Yuval Noah Harari

We finish our own story. The details of our journey are still a mystery. ~ Steven Cuoco

If you live long enough, you see the same eyes in different people ~ Star Wars: The Force Awakens

I don't really want more time; I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time to laugh long, time to give You glory and rest deep and sing joy and just enough time in a day not to feel hounded, pressed, driven, or wild to get it all done-yesterday. ~ Ann Voskamp

If he hung around Ravi long enough, he was going to become a terrible curse-word abuser, because there weren't enough polite words for how jumbled up Ravi made him feel. ~ Annabeth Albert

Look in the rearview mirror long enough & you'll see that God has purposely positioned you everywhere you've been-even when it seemed you'd taken a wrong turn. ~ Mark Batterson

Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key. ~ Jimmy Buffett

I don't want to die. I want to live. I want to live long enough so I can really live. ~ Patrick Ness

a deist is someone who has not lived long enough to become an atheist. ~ Anonymous

Things last either too long or not long enough. ~ Oscar Wilde

Life teaches you how to live it - if you live long enough. ~ Tony Bennett

Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance ~ Elizabeth Goudge

I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it. ~ William Faulkner

You're right," he says. "I've been crazy for years. If you stay with me for long, you will be, too. If you see enough of this, and understand enough of what it all means." He lets out a long sigh. ~ N.K. Jemisin

If a man lived long enough, his past would always overtake him, no matter how fast he ran or how morally he tried to live subsequently. And how men dealt with that law ultimately revealed their true natures. ~ Greg Iles

Ed, once called Aladdin, is the first artificial intelligence I've ever known. Maybe if Harry can kill Hiskott and if then I live long enough to see the world become the total science-fiction theme park it seems to be headed toward, I'll probably know dozens of them one day. Let me tell you, if they're all as nice as Ed has turned out to be, that's okay with me. ~ Dean Koontz

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson