Dexter Scott King Quotes

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

If you gave me an hour in the day between '09 and '14, I could have told you exactly where I was and what I was doing.

I was worried that one day, 40 years from now, I would look back and wouldn't be able to remember the details of my life, so I've written them all down.

It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

My life has been such a blur since I was 18, 19 years old. I haven't even had time to contemplate my own life. By forcing yourself to write your life story you learn a great deal about yourself.

When I want to check out how my life's been, I go through my albums. They steps in my life.

It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.

You get to a point in your life where you go, 'I don't remember what I did.'

When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21.

I'll admit, when I look back on the past couple decades, a lot of it seems like a blur.

As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.

I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.'

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

After a long run of almost thirty years, you get to the point where you say, 'These are my concerns.' It's not so much this is what I set out to claim - it is a kind of refrain.

When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?

Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.

When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

I am so enriched because so much has happened in my life. The way I can express myself is because of the life I have led. It's only when you experience life can you emote it.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.