„All my life I have felt myself to be on the edge of things. All my life I have suffered from bad dreams. All my life I have had difficulty in knowing whether I am awake or in a nightmare.“

„I was dreaming … about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.“

—  Thomas Pynchon, book The Crying of Lot 49

Source: The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Chapter 4

„All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.“

—  Hugh Prather American writer 1938 - 2010

Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

„Had I not had the childhood I did, would these traits not be so at the forefront of my personality? Who knows? All I know is that I am the product of all the experiences I have had, good and bad, and if I am in a happy place in my life (as I truly am), then I can have no regrets about any of the combination of events and circumstances that have led me to the here and now.“

—  Alan Cumming Scottish actor 1965

Not My Father's Son: A Family Memoir (2014)

„All my life I have had a certain idea of France.“

—  Charles de Gaulle eighteenth President of the French Republic 1890 - 1970

Toute ma vie, je me suis fait une certaine idée de la France.
Opening sentence of his Mémoires de guerre.
Most famous

„My dream is all I have and all I am.“

—  Cometan

Book: Cometan, the Omnidoxy

„I have felt that some sort of awful shame is attached to my name and that I have somehow brought this shame along from somewhere I have never been, and that I have carried this sin as my sin even though I have never committed it; this sin pursues me all my life, which life is undoubtedly not my own even thought I live it, I suffer from it die of it.“

—  Imre Kertész, book Kaddish for an Unborn Child

Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990)

„I am glad that in my life I have never cut short my emotions. The most awful thing of all is to be numb.“

—  Elizabeth Taylor British-American actress 1932 - 2011

„What greatness do I have that I have to tell anyone about? I live just like millions of people in this country; I am ordinary. My life is also ordinary. I am a poor school teacher suffering family travails. During my whole lifetime, I have been grinding away with the hope that I could become free of my sufferings. But I have not been able to free myself from suffering. What is so special about this life that needs to be told to anybody?“

—  Premchand Hindi writer 1880 - 1936

In Munshi Premchand:Biography, 10 December 2013, Internet Media Data Base http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0695919/bio,

„For all of my life I have needed more.“

—  Elizabeth Wurtzel American author and journalist 1967 - 2020

Source: More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction

„I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.“

—  Winston S. Churchill Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874 - 1965

Source: My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 7 (Hounslow).

„I have had a dream my whole life… and it was not this good.“

—  Joss Whedon American director, writer, and producer for television and film 1964

On being attached to direct The Avengers at the San Diego Comic-Con 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkINcovFxaY

„I felt I had nothing more to learn. It was the same thing wrapped up in different packaging again and again. I am not a brilliant dancer at all. But my packaging is great. You know, I have been a hippie all my life. And the dreams of the sixties that I had of living in a commune, of sharing, of never having more than I can use, of living life joyfully in nature -- that was the spirit that was inside me. And in the isolation of being a dancer I thought where is the giving, where is the sharing, with me sitting so far in a cold place? I knew I had to get back and I had to share what life had given me through dance. I was willing to give up my dance and work and beg to realise this dream. Because it would still be my dream, it would still be dance but how much joy it would give so many bodies.“

—  Protima Bedi Indian model and dancer 1948 - 1998

After learning Odissi dance, she toured all over the world performing Odissi dance and then settled in Switzerland but came back to establish a dance school. Quoted in in "I have been a hippie all my life".

„In truth, I am more than content with my current life. I have only ever dreamed of a simple, honorable, happy, and peaceful life for myself and my beloved family.“

—  Francis Escudero Filipino politician 1969

2015, Speech: Declaration as Vice Presidential Candidate

„I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.“

—  Charles Lamb, book Essays of Elia

Imperfect Sympathies.
Essays of Elia (1823)

„I have dreams, and I have nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.“

—  Jonas Salk Inventor of polio vaccine 1914 - 1995

As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing https://books.google.com/books?id=-T3QhPjIxhIC&lpg=PP1&dq=%22I%20have%20dreams%2C%20and%20I%20have%20nightmares.%20I%20overcame%20the%20nightmares%20because%20of%20my%20dreams.%22&pg=PA254#v=onepage (2006) by Larry Chang (page 254)

„I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness.“

—  Eckhart Tolle German writer 1948

Stillness Speaks (2003)

„All my life, I thought I was a Conservative. Now I know that I have never been one. The scales have dropped from my eyes.“

—  Keith Joseph British barrister and politician 1918 - 1994

Obituary http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lord-joseph-1387217.html, The Independent, Monday 12 December 1994.
1990s

„I am proud that I have devoted all my life to the struggle for the triumph of Leninism.“

—  Tim Buck Canadian politician 1891 - 1973

Tim Buck A Conscience for Canada

„All my life, I have lived with the feeling that I have been kept from my true place. If the expression "metaphysical exile" had no meaning, my existence alone would afford it one.“

—  Emil M. Cioran, book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)