Goes On Quotes - Page 22

• Times like this it did seem real I was leaving, and even more that my family, and this life, would go on without me. And again I felt that emptiness rise up, but pushed it away. Still, I lingered there, in the doorway, memorizing the noise. The moment. Tucking it away out of sight, to be remembered when I needed it most.

  Sarah Dessen

  Real, Sight, Leaving

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• 'This thing I feel, I can't name it straight out but it seems important, do you feel it too?' — this sort of direct question is not for the squeamish. For one thing, it's perilously close to 'Do you like me? Please like me,' which you know quite well that 99% of all the interhuman manipulation and bullshit gamesmanship that goes on goes on precisely because the idea of saying this sort of thing straight out is regarded as somehow obscene.

  David Foster Wallace

  Names, Ideas, Bullshit

  "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men".

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• My life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see me hurrying. Much stands behind me; I stand before it like a tree; I am only one of my many mouths, and at that, the one that will be still the soonest. I am the rest between two notes, which are somehow always in discord because Death’s note wants to climb over— but in the dark interval, reconciled, they stay there trembling. And the song goes on, beautiful.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beautiful, Song, Dark

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• On the other hand, whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do ,and if we want to go on a journey, then we must do so and not worry about our condition, even if it's the worst possible condition, because, if it is, we're finished anyway, whether we go on the journey or not, and it's better to die having made the journey we've been longing for than to be stifled by our longing.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Journey, Worry, Want

  "Concrete".

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• Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow

  William Shakespeare

  Fighting, Giving, Gone

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• A small and sinister snow seems to be coming down relentlessly at present. The radio says it is eventually going to be sleet and rain, but I don't think so; I think it is just going to go on and on, coming down, until the whole world...etc. It has that look.

  Edward Gorey

  Rain, Thinking, Snow

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• Ian grinned at her, trailing a pale hand down his chest. “Luscious, aren‟t I, poppet? Go on, stare. I don‟t mind.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Hands, Mind, Pale

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• We go on our hands and knees and crawl our way towards the truth

  Ian Mcewan

  Hands, Knees, Way

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• Anyway, what does mad mean exactly?" Rami added quickly "Aren't we all a little mad? Don't we have to be somehat mad just to go on living, to go on hoping?

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Mean, Mad, Doe

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• Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living.

  Carl Jung

  Able, Sometimes, Unforgivable

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• I say, I don’t think the human frame is very thoughtfully constructed for this sleuthhound business. If one could go on all fours, or had eyes in ones knees, it would be a lot more practical’… ‘What luck! Here’s a deep, damp ditch on the other side, which I shall now proceed to fall into.’ A slithering crash proclaimed that he had carried out his intention.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Fall, Eye, Thinking

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Clouds of Witness”, p.60, Open Road Media

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• Who in the world has not yearned for a loved one, has never said, If only he or she could come back just once, just one more time...? Despite the fact that it can never happen, never ever. Surely this is the saddest thing about our mortal world, and its sadness will go on shrouding human life like a blanket of fog until its final extinction.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Sadness, Fog, Finals

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• When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death

  Leo Tolstoy

  Thinking, Hunting, Amusing

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.326, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• I don't particularly believe all love is doomed. But I guess, one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or association, rather than being at the peak of one. I think it's fairly obvious that a lot more suffering goes on in the name of love than the little happiness you can squeeze out of it.

  Nick Cave

  Believe, Love Is, Thinking

  "Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock". Book by Simon Reynolds, 1988.

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• What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only, that our illusions change as we go on; but, still, we are madmen all the same.

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

  Angel, Sight, Fool

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1975). “Ghost Stories and Mysteries”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• What are you, a door mouse?!" Cloudtail mewed impatiently, prodding Lionblaze. Lionblaze looked up at the white warrior looking down at him, "Aww did you have to do that?! I was having a really great dream!" "And now you can go on a really great water patrol!" Cloudtail grumbled.

  Erin Hunter

  Dream, Warrior, Doors

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• A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certain kind of darkness, goes on propagating itself by its own power in its own self-contained cycle. And once it passes a certain point, no one can stop it-even if the person himself wants to stop it.

  Haruki Murakami

  Self, Darkness, Want

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• The chorus of “Jack and Diane” is: Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone. Are you kidding me? The thrill of living was high school? Come on, Mr. Cougar Mellencamp. Get a life.

  Mindy Kaling

  School, Long, Gone

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.34, Three Rivers Press

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• ‎I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Ocean, Forever, Touching

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “The Seeds of Wither: EBook Sampler with Exclusive Short Story”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Some philosophers can't bear to say simple things, like "Suppose a dog bites a man." They feel obliged instead to say, "Suppose a dog d bites a man m at time t," thereby demonstrating their unshakable commitment to logical rigor, even though they don't go on to manipulate any formulae involving d, m, and t.

  Daniel Dennett

  Dog, Commitment, Simple

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• You can't have an ending. It's impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You're never at the end until you die.

  E. Lockhart

  Impossible, Ends, Dies

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 4: Real Live Boyfriends”, p.163, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• Betty died of a broken heart. Some people laugh when they hear that phrase, but that's because they don't know anything about the world. People die of broken hearts. It happens every day, and it will go on happening to the end of time.

  Paul Auster

  Heart, People, Broken

  Paul Auster (2016). “Collected Novels Volume Four”, p.148, Faber & Faber

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• It isn't expectations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.

  Paulo Coelho

  Expectations, Desire, Brida

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• Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

  Robin Hobb

  Journey, Yesterday, Looks

  Robin Hobb (2003). “Mad Ship”, p.81, Spectra

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• It may all end tomorrow, or it could go on forever (in which case I'm doomed).

  Steven Morrissey

  Forever, May, Tomorrow

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