A Quote by Mason Cooley

Living too long exacts a painful price.

Mason Cooley

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Mason Cooley
American - Writer
1927 - 2002

You have to pay the price. You will find that everything in life exacts a price, and you will have to decide whether the price is worth the prize.

Sam Nunn

There were the days of so-called free love ... but it didn't take long to discover that love is not free. Sooner or later it exacts its price.

Flora Lewis

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart

The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.

Amy Lowell

If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Long distance relationships are living proof that love is not just physical. I can feel you next to me even when you're thousands of miles away. Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

Paulo Coelho

Standing up for what you believe in comes at a price but backing down exacts a toll that your soul never stops paying

Lee Goldberg

Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things.

Cesar Chavez

There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling or too hard to explain. After all, after years and travels my secrets are all I have left to chew on in the night.

Emma Donoghue

Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity.

John Piper

If one stays too long with friends They will soon tire of him; Living in such closeness leads to dislike and hate. It is but human to expect and demand too much When one dwells too long in companionship.

Milarepa

I would explain to my children very simply that the defense of liberty is a cause that exacts a very high price in the history of humankind.

Mitt Romney

Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do my spouse and kids pay for my career success? What price does my soul pay?

Dennis Prager

People die because they find living too painful.

Malcolm Fraser

I'll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren't so painful any more - not so raw or so new.