Quotes About Long

Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.

If he stared long enough into the comforting oblivion of that microcosm, it washed away everything else, even the shadow of his reflection.

The Houdan hen was never drawn into the cult of Sredni Vashtar. Conradin had long ago settled that she was an Anabaptist

You have to remember that, on some level, the entire Southern Reach has become a long com, and if you forget that you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.

When I saw those hundreds of journals I felt for a long moment that I had become that old biologist after all. That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you from the outside in, forcing you to live in it's reality.

on the scale of desire, your absence weighs more than someone else's presence

The winter nights were very long. Sometimes the sun showed for an hour, sometimes for only a few minutes, sometimes it did not show at all for a week. The men hunted by the bright shining of the moon or by the northern lights.

For the vacant nest and silent song, Hope was there, and laughed me out of sadness; Whispering, Winter will not linger long!

There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling or too hard to explain. After all, after years and travels my secrets are all I have left to chew on in the night.

Miss me? Bet you did ... so would I.

Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a kind as the author pleases to make it. If short, of a short one; if long, of a long one.

What kind of a kiss was that anyway? It was the kind that sucked your soul out of your body. Hey, she wanted to call out to the man who'd just left. You forgot to give my soul back.

also, i wanted to kiss you, said lola. come here, said emmett.

I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.

I missed you like I'd miss a lung, a kidney, and my right hand.

I am but a miserable sinner, but I have found, in my long life, that the cenobite has no foe worse than sadness".

Das Leben ist zu kurz und Proust zu lang...

Durante minha longa carreira de magistrado, jamais tive conhecimento de um erro judiciário. — Eis aí uma declaração tranquilizadora - disse o senhor de Terremondre. — E que a mim me gela de pavor - murmurou monsieur Bergeret.

And yet. Our best intentions are often thwarted by external forces—forces that we ourselves set in motion long ago.

At what point do we escalate? When do we conclude that the time has come to also try something different? When do we start physically attacking the things that consume our planet and destroy them with our own hands? Is there a good reason we have waited this long?

America as a European obsession has a long, complex relationship, one constantly vacillating between flashes of adoration and profound antipathy.

Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.

One of my favorite fish is the Arapaima. It lives in the Amazon and they grow maybe nine feet long and one might weigh two of me.