Goes On Quotes - Page 24

• If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Water, Soul, Kind

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• Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made it possible for me to go on, but you don't seem to realize that. Even when love is right there in front of you, you choose to turn away from it. You're alone because you want to be.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love You, Love Is, Loving Someone

  "The Rescue". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2000.

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• Tanith frowned. Did people still go on DATES any more? She was sure they did. They probably called it something different though. She tried to think of the last date she'd been on. The last PROPER date. Did fighting side by side with Saracen Rue count as a date? They ended up snuggling under the moonlight, drenched in gore and pieces of brain - so it had PROBABLY been a date. If it wasn't, it was certainly a fun time had by all. Well, not ALL. But she and Saracen had sure had a blast.

  Derek Landy

  Fun, Fighting, Thinking

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• More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.

  Kevin Smith

  Hero, Epic, Battle

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• Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning, you will think that you are wasting time, but you must go on, be determined and persevere in it until death, despite all the difficulties.

  Brother Lawrence

  Thinking, Encounters, Resistance

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• Because life goes on, L. The birds do their thing, and the bees do theirs. Seeds get scattered, and everything grows back.

  Kami Garcia

  Bird, Bees, Grows

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2010). “Beautiful Darkness”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious of the unslept unsleeping elsewhere Tonight I think no poetry will serve Syntax of rendition: verb pilots the plane adverb modifies action verb force-feeds noun submerges the subject noun is choking verb disgraced goes on doing now diagram the sentence

  Adrienne Rich

  Sleep, Dark, Thinking

  Adrienne Rich (2011). “Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010: Poems 2007–2010”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Writing

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.159, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.

  Ann Brashares

  Moving, Together, Matter

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Nov 16, 2012

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• I knew that time would now pass for me differently than it would for him - that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not. And for me, that was the final and truly unbearable tragedy: Like all the innumerable dead, he'd once and for all been demoted from haunted to haunter.

  John Green

  Loss, Tragedy, Finals

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

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• People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. 'The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it's like missing water. Every day, you notice the person's absence more.

  Anne Tyler

  Love, Next Day, Water

  Anne Tyler (2004). “Back When We Were Grownups”

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• There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint,'Dear saint-please, please, please...give me the grace to win the lottery.' This lament goes on for months. Finally the exasperated statue come to life, looks down at the begging man and says in weary disgust,'My son-please, please, please...buy a ticket.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Son, Italian, Winning

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• Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.

  C. S. Lewis

  Loss, Evil, Decision

  "The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics".

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• You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.

  Hilary Mantel

  Years, Long, Bears

  Hilary Mantel (2007). “An Experiment in Love: A Novel”, p.111, Macmillan

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• Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on.

  Alan Watts

  Circles, Expectations, Survival

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• Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.

  Anne Tyler

  People, Dying, Findings

  Anne Tyler (1990). “Anne Tyler: Four Complete Novels”, Avenel

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• But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which was the worst way for a man without real talent to waste his life, finally. But many people did just that, friends and relatives mostly.

  Charles Bukowski

  Real, Lying, Men

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Women”, Ecco

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• When you write, you want fame, fortune and personal satisfaction. You want to write what you want to write and feel it's good, and you want this to go on for hundreds of years. You're not likely ever to get all these things, and you're not likely to give up writing and commit suicide if you don't, but that is -- and should be -- your goal. Anything else is kind of piddling.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Suicide, Giving Up, Writing

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• All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.

  Alan Bennett

  Effort, Found, Left

  Alan Bennett (2017). “The History Boys: With GCSE and A Level study guide”, p.69, Faber & Faber

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• First the husband tried to make the wife his possession, and once she is a possession he loses interest. There is some hidden logic in it: his whole interet was to possess; now that is finished, and he would like to try some other woman so he can again go on another trip of possesion.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Husband, Wife

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• He grinned. It was a wicked grin, the kind that made the blood in Clary's veins run a little faster. "You want to go on a date?" Caught off guard, she stammered. "A wh-what?" "A date," Jace repeated. "Often 'a boring thing you have to memorize in history class,' but in this case, 'an offering of an evening of blisteringly white-hot romance with yours truly." "Really?" Clary was not sure what to make of this. "Blisteringly white-hot?" "It's me," said Jace. "Watching me play Scrabble is enough to make most women swoon. Imagine if I actually put in some effort.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Offering, Blood

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• She opened her mouth to answer, but he was already kissing her. She had kissed him so many times—soft gentle kisses, hard and desperate ones, brief brushes of the lips that said good-bye, and kisses that seemed to go on for hours—and this was no different. The way the memory of someone who had once lived in a house might linger even after they were gone, like a sort of psychic imprint, her body remembered Jace. Remembered the way he tasted, the slant of his mouth over hers, his scars under her fingers, the shape of his body under her hands.

  Cassandra Clare

  Memories, Kissing, Bye

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• Life and love would go on. Even though it would happen without me, the idea brought me joy.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Life And Love, Ideas, Joy

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• You don't know what goes on in anyone's life but your own.

  Jay Asher

  Knows

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.201, Penguin

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• What does autumn go on paying for with so much yellow money?

  Pablo Neruda

  Autumn, Yellow, Doe

  "The book of questions".

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