Goes On Quotes - Page 18

• I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.

  John Fowles

  Want, Diseased, Hollow

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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• The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I do not. Can't you see? I do not.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Stupid, World, Brutal

  Jennifer Donnelly (2010). “Revolution”, p.444, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.

  Melina Marchetta

  Strange, Kind, Dies

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• Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club! Third rule of Fight Club: if someone yells “stop!”, goes limp, or taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight. Fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas. Sixth rule: the fights are bare knuckle. No shirt, no shoes, no weapons. Seventh rule: fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule: if this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fighting, Shoes, Two

  "Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• they say life goes on long after the thrill of living

  John Mellencamp

  Long, Thrill, Life Goes On

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• The look he gave me...My stomach quivered in that exact same way when I watched Before Sunset, yearning for a guy to know me so deeply and truly, we were only really complete when we were together. That I could talk, go on wild tangents, make obtuse references, and he would divine my meaning before I knew what I was trying to say myself. Erik had fallen asleep next to me on the couch, complaining later that the movie was "just people talking." He had no idea that this movie could have been a love letter written for me.

  Justina Chen

  Sunset, Talking, Ideas

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• You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.

  Marian Keyes

  Love, Stories, Tales

  Marian Keyes (2005). “The Other Side of the Story”, p.554, Penguin UK

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• The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.

  Emily Dickinson

  Light, Poet, Fades

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• ...But the one thing that I would never, ever recover from would be losing you. You made me promise before to go on if that happened, but Bones, I wouldn't want to. - Cat from This Side of the Grave

  Jeaniene Frost

  Cat, Promise, Would Be

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• That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Men, Sensitive Man

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “Crime and Punishment”, p.125, Vintage

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• Of everything I have seen, it's you I want to go on seeing: of everything I've touched, it's your flesh I want to go on touching. I love your orange laughter. I am moved by the sight of you sleeping. What am I to do, love, loved one? I don't know how others love or how people loved in the past. I live, watching you, loving you. Being in love is my nature.

  Pablo Neruda

  Laughter, Sleep, Being In Love

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• Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Years, Giving

  Haruki Murakami (2007). “Vintage Murakami”, p.161, Vintage

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• Face it, you stupid little cookie maker,” Jenks said, almost sounding fond, “in the last couple of days you’ve seen what it’s like to be in a family, with all the touchy tempers and irritation that goes on. Now you get to see the other side, where we do stupid stuff for each other just because we like you. Rache is the little sister. Ivy’s the big sister. I’m the uncle from out of state, and you’re the rich nephew no one likes but we put up with you anyway because we feel sorry for you. Just let me help, huh? It won’t kill you.

  Kim Harrison

  Uncles, Sorry, Couple

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• I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Sweet, Faces, Wonder

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.405, Hamilton Books

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• I pulled in a soft breath. My lungs were starving, crying out for air. I lay still, and a cough tickled at the back of my throat. It always happens when you're hiding, a cough, a sneeze, something. It's stupid. The body decides to screw around with you, even though it knows being quiet is the only way it's going to go on living.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Stupid, Air, Body

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• And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die. But there's a joy and an abundance of everything, like information and laughter and summer weather and so many stories.

  Melina Marchetta

  Summer, Laughter, Weather

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• Maybe you didn't know what people thought of you because they themselves didn't know what they thought of you. Maybe you didn't give us enough to go on, Hannah.

  Jay Asher

  People, Giving, Enough

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.127, Penguin

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• Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.

  Stephen King

  Stars, Moon, Shoes

  Stephen King (2016). “The Long Walk”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Never despise small beginnings, and don't belittle your own accomplishments. Remember them and use them as inspiration as you go on to the next thing. When you venture outside your comfort zone, wherever the starting point may be, it's kind of a big deal.

  Chris Guillebeau

  Inspiration, Accomplishment, Comfort

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• The soul may not be destroyed. The soul goes on forever. Like the number pi, it is without cessation or conclusion. Like pi it is a constant. Pi is an irrational number, incapable of being made into a fraction, impossible to divide from itself. So, too, the soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you.

  Joe Hill

  Irrational Numbers, Forever, Soul

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• It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Matter, Impossible, Dear

  Twitter post from Sep 26, 2017

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• The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Forget, Lost, Tricks

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• So You Want to Know All about her. Who she really is. (Was?) Why she swerved off the high road. Hard left to nowhere, recklessly indifferent to me. Hunter Seth Haskins, her firstborn son. I've been chocking that down for nineteen years. Why did she go on her mindless way, leaving me spinning in a whirlwind of her dust?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Son, Dust, Years

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.1031, Simon and Schuster

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• We're going to win this war, you know, now that our army's together. But the world doesn't care who wins. It'll go on spinning, no matter how many people are slaughtered." After a moment, he added. "I almost wish it wouldn't, if we aren't allowed to go on spinning with it.

  Kristin Cashore

  War, Army, Winning

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.228, Penguin

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• I'm sorry your pretty little world got all screwed up, but everybody's does, and you go on. It's how you go on that defines you.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Sorry, Doe, World

  Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.115, Delacorte Press

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