Goes On Quotes - Page 16

• What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Argument

  "Jailbird". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, p. 24, 1979.

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• For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially if he be, in addition, a diplomat or financier in contact with the 'realities' of the present day, is only too ready to believe literature is an intellectual game which is destined to gradually be abandoned as time goes on.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Believe, Reality

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• What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside.

  Margaret Laurence

  Margaret Laurence (2010). “The Fire-Dwellers”, p.30, New Canadian Library

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• Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterward. A friend of mine, a soldier, put it this way. In most of our lives, most of the time, you have a sense of what is to come. There is a steady narrative, a feeling of "lights, camera, action" when big events are imminent. But trauma isn't like that. It just happens, and then life goes on. No one prepares you for it.

  Jessica Stern

  Light, People, Feelings

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• No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Where do you go when you die? Ha ha. Go on, go on and tell her, Billy." Billy smiles. "You become a little voice in someone's ear telling them that things will be alright.

  Joe Meno

  Voice, Littles, Ears

  Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.283, Akashic Books

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• The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.

  Eric Berne

  Destiny, Skulls, Humans

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• It's a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them--and they simply don't need you. That's all there is to it, and neither of you can do anything about it. And they'll be the same way with someone else, and someone else will be the same way about you and it goes on and on--this desperate need--and only once in a rare million do the same two people need each other.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Two, People, Needs

  Madeleine L'Engle (1968). “Prelude”

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• I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you.

  Elvis Presley

  Lying, Hearing, Without You

  Song: Are You Lonesome Tonight?

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• I have never been able to understand the complaint that a story is "depressing" because of its subject matter. What depresses me are stories that don't seem to know these things go on, or hide them in resolute chipperness; "witty stories," in which every problem is the occasion for a joke; "upbeat" stories that flog you with transcendence. Please. We're grown ups now.

  Tobias Wolff

  Witty, Depressing, Stories

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• ...and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.

  James M. Barrie

  Children, Gay, Long

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.157, Jazzybee Verlag

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• For a moment, staring down and realizing what I'd just done, I wanted to throw myself in after him, because surely there was no way I could go on living now.

  Richelle Mead

  Done, Down And, Way

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.224, Penguin

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• Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes and grasshoppers and beetles and potato bugs, ants . . . and put them in a jar and look at them. They have the sweetest little faces and the cutest expressions. After we'd looked at them all we wanted to, we'd put them in the yard and let them go on about their business.

  Fannie Flagg

  Glasses, Expression, Ants

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• Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.

  Glenway Wescott

  Running, Long, Luck

  Glenway Wescott (1940). “The pilgrim hawk: a love story”

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• Slash was about my height, and he used the alignment of our bodies to his greatest advantage. I let it go on for a few minutes. Right up until he unzipped his leather pants and pulled out Mr. One Eye.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Eye, Leather Pants, Let It Go

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “At Grave's End: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.77, Hachette UK

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• What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.

  Suzanne Collins

  Love, Spring, Inspiration

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.388, Scholastic Inc.

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• All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it's not a mistake to go on living. It's better than any medicine.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mistake, Optimistic, Medicine

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.241, Scholastic Inc.

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• It's funny about love', Sophia said. 'The more you love someone, the less he likes you back.' 'That's very true,' Grandmother observed. 'And so what do you do?' 'You go on loving,' said Sophia threateningly. 'You love harder and harder.

  Tove Jansson

  Grandmother, Likes, Said

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• Tatiana said. "Go on with Dasha. She is right for you. She is a woman and I'm-" "Blind!", Alexander exclaimed. Tatiana stood, desolately failing in the battle of her heart. "Oh, Alexander. What do you want from me..." "Everything", he whispered fiercely.

  Paullina Simons

  Heart, Battle, Want

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• We exist for ourselves, perhaps, and at times we even have a glimmer of who we are, but in the end we can never be sure, and as our lives go on, we become more and more opaque to ourselves, more and more aware of our own incoherence. No one can cross the boundary into another – for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself.

  Paul Auster

  Simple, Opaque, Who We Are

  Paul Auster (2008). “The New York Trilogy”, p.249, Faber & Faber

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• You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives—and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it?—your captivity and the captivity of the world.

  Daniel Quinn

  Order, Captivity, World

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.25, Bantam

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• Photographers tend not to photograph what they can’t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we’re going to go on forever just photographing more faces and more rooms and more places. Photography has to transcend description. It has to go beyond description to bring insight into the subject, or reveal the subject, not as it looks, but how does it feel?

  Duane Michals

  Photography, Forever, Trying

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• A long time ago, Trinity and I made a list of types of guys you should never date. We add to it every now and then. It includes things like never date a guy whose computer costs more than his car (you'll never get him to pay attention to you except over instant messages), never date a guy who has a pet lizard (he's probably into weird stuff in bed) and never under any circumstances go on a second date with a guy who says the word "married" on the first date (he'll turn out to be a mama's boy or a religious type)

  Adam Selzer

  Religious, Boys, Car

  Adam Selzer (2010). “I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It”, p.46, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted to invent, but never did...If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It is a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledygook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Responsibility, Men

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• Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?

  Elizabeth Scott

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “Perfect You”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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