“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) Russian composer, pianist, and conductor
“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) Russian composer, pianist, and conductor
“So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“One great love in a single lifetime was enough for anyone.”
Robert James Waller book A Thousand Country Roads
Source: A Thousand Country Roads
“We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.”
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
“The Day Before the Revolution” p. 270 (originally published in Galaxy, August 1974)
Short fiction, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)
“For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.”
Garrett Fort (1900–1945) screenwriter
Dracula, to Van Helsing, who has discovered his secret
Dracula (1931)
Dan Simmons book The Rise of Endymion
Source: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 33 (p. 684)
“If "thank you" is the only prayer you can utter in your lifetime, that would be enough.”
Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian
Very commonly attributed to Eckhart on the internet and some publications, the source of the first formulation however is: A Bucket of Surprises (2002) by J. John and Mark Stibbe.
Disputed