Goes On Quotes - Page 15

• I’d never seen anything like it. First a trial, then a few murders, then dancing. Life goes on. Or, in this case, death continues.

  Charlaine Harris

  Dancing, Trials, Firsts

  Charlaine Harris (2008). “All Together Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.309, Penguin

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• The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling ,and sewn with rebus threads.Most of the time , the best we can do is wrap it around ourselves for comfort or drag it behind us as we struggle to go on .

  Gregory David Roberts

  Struggle, Cutting, Past

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.765, Macmillan

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• After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Pieces, None Of Your Business, Finished

  Natalie Goldberg (1990). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life”, Bantam

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• You can’t go on “seeing through” things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. To “see through” all things is the same as not to see.

  C. S. Lewis

  Forever, All Things, Whole

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• Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

  George Orwell

  Said Life, Gone, Windmills

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life and love go on.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Life And Love, And Love

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• I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill him if need be. (107)

  Dorothy Allison

  Talking, Needs, Enough

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• Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

  Samuel Beckett

  Inspiring, Failure, Trying

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• You love him so much it feels like you can't go on without him. You feel like you might die without him.

  James Patterson

  Might, Like You, Feels

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• There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.

  Jim Thompson

  Want, Forgotten, Ifs

  Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”

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• For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is CERTAIN, that nothing bad will ever happen to ME. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibilities. Except that there ARE. But let's not talk about them, eh? By the time the consequences catch up to you, it's too late, isn't it, Montag?

  Ray Bradbury

  Responsibility, Up To You, Too Late

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• Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Optimism, May, Unexpected

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.205, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections - whether from diffidence or some other instinct.

  Robert Frost

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Education by Poetry". Robert Frost's speech at Amherst College in Massachusetts, www.en.utexas.edu. February 1931.

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• People will knife you in the back for a stinking crumb and then go on with their lives as if you’re nothing but a worthless roach. (Aiden)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Knives, People, Roaches

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• Is he well educated?" "Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day of his life, same as father. He says it is all rot about 'finishing' your education. You never do. You learn more important things each day.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Father, Thinking, Important

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2016). “Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran”, p.584, Xist Publishing

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• Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped and there it stayed, it was stuffed with its own self. Some fix, that. We only have ourselves to go on, and it's enough.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dream, Self, Snakes

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “You Get So Alone at Times”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• Estragon: I can't go on like this.
  Vladimir: That's what you think.

  Samuel Beckett

  Moving On, Encouraging, Thinking

  "Waiting for Godot". Play by Samuel Beckett, 1952.

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• Sure, nothing succeeds like success. Fact is, dearest, we are fools. We cling to an ideal no one wants or cares about. I am the greater fool of the two of us. I go on eating out my heart and poisoning every moment of my life in the attempt to rouse people's sensibilities. At least if I could do it with closed eyes. The irony is I see the futility of my efforts and yet I can't let go.

  Emma Goldman

  Letting Go, Eye, Heart

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• Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.

  George F. Kennan

  Military, Ocean, Government

  Foreword to 'The Pathology of Power' by Norman Cousins in 1987. "At a Century's Ending: Reflections 1982-1995". Book by George F. Kennan, p. 118, 1996.

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• Let me tell you something, Mari. The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you. And once that happens, you've had it: things'll never be the same. All you can do is go on, living alone down there in the darkness.

  Haruki Murakami

  Darkness, Looks, Enough

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “After Dark”, p.158, Random House

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• Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality, of coldness, of fear; then she wished that it were already the next day. Immediately afterwards she realized that that wish was futile because the death of her father was the only thing that had happened in the world, and it would go on happening endlessly.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Father, Next Day, Feelings

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.132, New Directions Publishing

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• We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Stupid, Men

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “Arguably”, p.392, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I disobeyed Ra's wishes, and so he ordered my onw father, Shu-" "Hang on," I said. "Shoe?" "S-h-u," she said. "The god of the wind." "On." I wished these gods had names that wearn't common household objects. "Go on, please.

  Rick Riordan

  Father, Wind, Names

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• There are some with whom we may study in common, but we shall find them unable to go along with us to principles. Perhaps we may go on with them to principles, but we shall find them unable to get established in those along with us. Or if we may get so established along with them, we shall find them unable to weigh occurring events along with us.

  Confucius

  Principles, Events, May

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I'm floating inside my skin. I could go on floating like this for days. Right now, the real world with its heartbreak and disappointments is just a pulse against the protective membrane we've drunk ourselves into. It's somewhere outside us, waiting." A Great and Terrible Beauty, Page 141, by

  Libba Bray

  Disappointment, Real, Drunk

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.126, Delacorte Press

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