Variant: A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go.
Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
“One moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory.”
“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., in "The Professor at the Breakfast-Table" in The Atlantic Monthly Vol. 4 (1859), p. 505.
Misattributed
“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.”
“Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.”
Source: A Million Little Pieces
“Not the intense moment
Isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime burning in every moment.”
“I need you for a lot of things, Hardy. A lifetime's worth of things.”
Source: Blue-Eyed Devil
“There is a lifetime in a moment, a world in a seed and a universe in a thought.”
“Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.”
