“Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it.”

“If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.”

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist

“You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”

movie The Dark Knight

“You are a fever I am learning to live with, and everything is happening
at the wrong end of a very long tunnel.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

“Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice

“And sure enough, even waiting will end… if you can just wait long enough.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

“I fight with love, and I laugh with rage.
You've gotta live light enough to see the humor,
And long enough to see some change.”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

“Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

“You carried it alone as long as you could, and then you weren't strong enough to take it any longer. You kept fighting everything, and everything broke you down, until in the end you were just a little goddam bolt holding on and squealing when the machine went too fast.”

Norman Mailer book The Naked and the Dead

“Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.”

Patti Smith Just Kids