“I have read somewhere that we often spend a lifetime searching for what we already have.”
Mary Balogh (1944) Welsh-Canadian novelist
Source: Slightly Married
“You could spend a lifetime reading in here.”
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
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“A lifetime here with you will seem to short.”
William Fitzsimmons (1978) American musician
Until When We Are Ghosts (2006), Forsake All Others
“I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) <br class="br">Context: I told the Englishman that my alma mater was books, a good library. Every time I catch a plane, I have with me a book that I want to read—and that’s a lot of books these days. If I weren’t out here every day battling the white man, I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity—because you can hardly mention anything I’m not curious about.<br><br> Chapter 11, paragraph 59 http://www.uri.edu/library/inscriptions/almamater.html
“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien The Lord of the Rings
Source: The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring
“Here sweet Meads, cool Fountains be,
Here Groves where I could spend my Age with thee.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Bucolicks
“You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.”
Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire
Source: Catching Fire
