When you have lived the life ...

When you have lived the life I've lived, when you've loved and suffered, and been madly happy and desperately sad -- well, that's when you realize you'll never be able to set it all down. Maybe you'd rather die first.
 Judy Garland

Quotes from the same author

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
 Judy Garland
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
 Judy Garland
[On daughter Liza Minnelli] I think she decided to go into show business when she was an embryo, she kicked so much.
 Judy Garland
'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.
 Judy Garland
He gave me a look at myself I've never had before. He saw something in me nobody else ever did. He made me see it too. He made me believe it.
 Judy Garland