Goes On Quotes - Page 21

• I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Shining, World, Figures

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.573, e-artnow

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• The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.

  James Patterson

  Grief, Loss, Ideas

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• How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but — mainly — to ourselves.

  Julian Barnes

  Cutting, Challenges, Stories

  "The Sense of an Ending". Book by Julian Barnes, www.penguin.co.uk. 2001.

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• I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we's comin from or goin to or why. I'm tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't. I'm tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I could end it, I would. But I can't.

  Stephen King

  Lonely, Pain, Rain

  Stephen King (2010). “The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing it, because it’s so-o good when you breathe the air up there. And you know you'll die falling.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fall, Air, One Day

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• They’re waiting for you. Go on in.” Adrian leaned close to Keith’s ear and spoke in an ominous voice. “If.You.Dare.” He poked Keith’s shoulder and gave a "Muhahaha” kind of monster laugh.

  Richelle Mead

  Voice, Laughing, Waiting

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.34, Penguin

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• And so, while the rest of the world went on unaware, drinking their coffee, reading the sports page, and picking up their dry cleaning, I leaned forward and kissed Dexter, making a choice that would change everything. Maybe somewhere there was a ripple, a bit of jump, some small shift in the universe, barely noticeable. I didn’t feel it then. I felt only him kissing me back, easing me into the sunlight as I lost myself in the taste of him and felt the world go on, just as it always had, all around us.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sports, Drinking, Coffee

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.85, Penguin

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• What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

  Louise Erdrich

  Life, Past, Long

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• I bet he never goes on YouTube. He's too busy. It's only tragic cases like you and me who are always online.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Busy, Like You, Online

  Sophie Kinsella (2010). “Mini Shopaholic: (Shopaholic Book 6)”, p.333, Random House

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• I had hoped to hear everyone discussing how much they missed my altruistic qualities, my legendary skills as a fighter and as a lover." He leered. "Instead, you're making plans for tomorrow. Interesting how life goes on in spite of itself.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Skills, Interesting, Quality

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study”, MIRA

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• Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.

  Wendell Berry

  Dream, Love You, Live Your Life

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning.

  John Milton

  Men, World, Weight

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.454

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• I am rich and famous. I have a talented and gorgeous husband and two beautiful children. I could go on.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Beautiful, Children, Husband

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• You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.

  Neil Gaiman

  Farewell, Blow, Grieving

  "Sandman Special: The Song of Orpheus". Comic book by Neil Gaiman, 1991.

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• anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on sleeping soundly

  Jose Saramago

  Sleep, Up Early, Get Up

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• It now lately sometimes seemed a black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a subject or pursuit, and could go on caring this way for years on end. Could dedicate their entire lives to it. It seemed admirable and at the same time pathetic. We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe.

  David Foster Wallace

  Caring, Years, People

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• If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions.

  David Levithan

  Memories, Accomplishment, Lasting Impressions

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.152, Macmillan

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• How could she go on without him? And, at the same time, how could she go on knowing that every moment of their time together had meant so little to him

  Sarah MacLean

  Knowing, Together, Littles

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• Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.

  Haruki Murakami

  Cutting, Thinking, Pieces

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 07, 2015

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• Jerome sighed and set down his fork. "Are you still doing that, Georgie? Don't I suffer enough without having to endure the humiliation of a succubus who moonlights as a Christmas elf?" "You always said I should quit the bookstore and find something else to do," I reminded him. "Yes, but that was because I thought you'd go on to do something respectable. Like become a stripper or the Mayor's mistress.

  Richelle Mead

  Suffering, Mistress, Bookstores

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus Revealed”, p.9, Kensington Books

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• Only after Mom went missing did you realize that her stories were piled inside you, in endless stacks. Mom's everyday life used to go on in a repeating loop, without a break. Her everyday words, which you didn't think deeply about and sometimes dismissed as useless when she was with you, awoke in your heart, creating tidal waves.

  Shin Kyung-sook

  Mom, Heart, Thinking

  Kyung-Sook Shin (2011). “Please Look After Mom”, p.260, Vintage

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• How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

  Kingsley Amis

  Doctors, Knowing, People

  Kingsley Amis (1958). “Lucky Jim: A Novel”, Queens House, Incorporated

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• God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Two, Doe

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• And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us?

  James M. Barrie

  Remember, Forget, Wendy

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.45, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn’t know why I wanted to go on

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Bereavement, Want, I Realized

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2009). “Nothing Was the Same”, p.114, Vintage

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