Old Life Quotes

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  • When a man is not deeply convicted of sin, it is a pretty sure sign that he has not truly repented. Experience has taught me that men who have very slight conviction of sin sooner or later lapse back into their old life.

    Men   Lapses   Taught  
  • But I understand now what Tori said about her tattoo representing a fear she overcame-a reminder of where she was, as well as a reminder of who she is now. Maybe there is a way to honor my old life as I embrace my new one. "yes," I say. "Three of these flying birds." I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight-toward my heart. One for each member of the family I left behind.

    Tattoo   Heart   Bird  
    Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.51, Harper Collins
  • Get busy living, or get busy dying.

    Different Seasons "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" (1982)
  • Life is half spent before we know what it is.

    Life   Bad Ass   Reality  
    George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.177
  • I notice the silvery hair at his temples with a tinge of sadness. Why do parents grow old? Life is a castle of lies slowly dismantled by the passage of time. I regret not spending more time looking at the people I love.

    Regret   Lying   Sadness  
  • When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to retain a little of the old life, end up torn apart by their own memories.

    Paulo Coelho (2015). “Warrior of the Light -”, p.19, Booklassic
  • I just stood there, looking at her. My head was spinning, my mouth dry, and all I could think about was that I wanted to go someplace safe, someplace I could be alone and okay, and that this was impossible. My old life had changed and my new one was still in progress, altering by the second. There was nothing, nothing to depend on. And why was I surprised?

    Thinking   Progress   Dry  
    Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.145, Penguin
  • Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life. Safety and peace come only after we have been forced to our knees. God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

  • I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life.

  • My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right.

    Used   Made   Old Life  
  • My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk.

    L. P. Hartley (2015). “The Go-between”, p.93, Penguin UK
  • There have been loads of times I have regretted meeting Paul because I was so happy in my old life.

  • This silence, this moment, every moment, if it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There's nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, 'Be more silent.' Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you've died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.

  • Casually, unconsciously, but with deadly effectiveness, western man all round the globe destroyed the traditional gods and the ancient societies with his commerce and his science. ... Does it mean nothing to him if great areas of the world, where western influence has been predominant, emerge from this tutelage unable to return to the old life, yet unfitted for the new? It is hard to believe that the future could ever belong to men demonstrating irresponsibility on so vast a scale.

    Believe   Mean   Men  
  • To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

    Life   Time   Memories  
    Emily Dickinson, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1994). “Emily Dickinson”, p.7, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
  • God does not patch up the old life, or make certain repairs on the old life; He gives a new life, through the new birth.

    Giving   Doe   New Life  
  • Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance

    Life   Time   Taken  
  • Drive down any road, take a train or an airplane across the world, leave your old life behind, die and be born again~ wherever you arrive they'll be there first, glossy and rowdy and indistinguishable. The deep muscle of the world.

    Airplane   Rowdy   World  
    Mary Oliver (1992). “New and Selected Poems”, Beacon Press (MA)
  • Sophie has a gift," she said. "She has the Sight. She can see what others do not. In her old life she often wondered if she was mad. Now she knows that she is not mad but special. There, she was only a parlor maid, who would likely have lost her position once her looks had faded. Now she is a valued member of our household, a gifted girl with much to contribute.

    Girl   Sight   Mad  
    Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.190, Simon and Schuster
  • People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain. You see how they look at me? They’re stuck on that person I used to be. They can’t see that old life as just a moment in time that I’ve moved on from. It was a horrible life.

    Pain   People   Tragedy  
    Eric Jerome Dickey (2006). “Genevieve”, p.191, Penguin
  • It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.

    Lauren Oliver (2012). “Pandemonium (Delirium Trilogy 2)”, p.70, Hachette UK
  • You see ... a man like me, a cautious man, has his life all figured out according to a pattern, and then the pattern flies apart. You run around for quite a while trying to repair it, until one day you straighten up again with an armful of broken pieces, and you see that the world has gone on without you and you can never catch up with your old life, and you must begin all over again.

    Running   Men   Broken  
  • his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.

    Adventure   Dark   Mist  
    J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of your old life and into the new!

    Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.211
  • All I meant was that people take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that. And some places have a way of magnifying your demons, or of, I don't know, giving them pep pills.

    People   Giving   Perfect  
    Julia Glass (2003). “Three Junes”, Vintage
  • If she wasn't careful, she'd slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the current without a wimper of protest. Another housewife lost in the flow.

    Flow   Slides   Lost  
    Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again”, p.263, Ballantine Books
  • An imitation of a Frenchman would not make me a Frenchman. I am a German and I would have to be "reborn" to be anything but what I am. And so in the Christian life. I must be born anew. That is why Christ took me with Himself down into the grave and brought me forth a "new creation." He terminated my old life when there upon the Cross as Representative He died; and He imparted to me a new life when He arose from the grave.

  • After most deaths, I imagine, the awfulness lies in how everything’s changed….there’s a hole. It’s person-shaped and it follows you everywhere…. For us what was killing was how nothing had changed. We’d been waiting to be transformed, and now here we were, back in our old life.

    Lying   Waiting   Imagine  
  • God wants to purify our minds until we can bear all things, believe all things, hope all things, and endure all things. God dwells in you, but you cannot have this divine power until you live and walk in the Holy Ghost, until the power of the new life is greater than the old life.

    Believe   Mind   New Life  
    Smith Wigglesworth (2013). “Smith Wigglesworth on Manifesting the Divine Nature: Abiding in Power Every Day of the Year”, p.213, Destiny Image Publishers
  • The ecology of the valley was complex beyond our understanding, and it began to die as we went on manipulating it in ever more frantic ways. As it went dead and empty of the old life it became a place where no one wanted to live. In our right minds we want to seek out places that reek of complexity. Our drive to industrialize soured and undercut the intimacies that drew most people to country life in the first place.

    Country   Land   People  
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