Goes On Quotes - Page 25

• Zindagi migzara (life goes on)

  Khaled Hosseini

  Life Goes On

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• What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained - though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.

  Alan Watts

  Ocean, Future, Zest

  "The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are". Book by Alan Watts, 1966.

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• By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are. So I will go on. So I will myself to go on.

  Margaret Atwood

  Believe, Stories, Existence

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Nov 19, 2016

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• At John Schlesinger's funeral at a synagogue in St John's Wood some years ago the person I stood next to said to me encouragingly, 'Come on, Stephen - you're not singing. Have a go!' 'Believe me, Paul, you don't want me to,' I said. Besides, I was having a much better time listening to him. 'No. Go on!' So I joined in the chorus. 'You're right,' Paul McCartney conceded. 'You can't sing.

  Stephen Fry

  Believe, Years, Funeral

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.220, The Overlook Press

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• She ran her gaze over his chest with frank appreciation. Then he shivered, realizing he hadn't really considered the weather. It was forty-five degrees max, but Chloe was giving him a go-on gesture with her hand. "All I have left is my pants," he said. "Yes, please." "It's cold, Chloe." She tilted her head. "Are you worried about shrinkage?" Well, he was now. -Chloe and Sawyer

  Jill Shalvis

  Appreciation, Hands, Weather

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• But I welcome the darkness where the two eyes of that soft panther glow. The darkness is my cultural broth. The enchanted darkness. I go on speaking to you, risking disconnection: I’m subterraneously unattainable because of what I know.

  Clarice Lispector

  Eye, Two, Darkness

  Clarice Lispector (1989). “Agua Viva”, p.20, U of Minnesota Press

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• I had a sense then of how if we truly understood how many of the unimportant things we do will end up outliving us, we'd never be able to go on.

  David Levithan

  Unimportant Things, Able, Ends

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• Let us agree that we are marrying so we can go on quarrelling in the greatest possible comfort and convenience.

  Patrice Kindl

  Comfort, Convenience, Agree

  Patrice Kindl (2012). “Keeping The Castle”, p.125, Penguin

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• He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.

  Alice Hoffman

  Wish, Looks, Way

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.136, Penguin

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• -You know-- Eddis hesitated, not sure how far to push the Attolian Queen. -Go on. Attolia inclined her head. -I was going to say that you look like a polecat when you smile like that. -Do I? Attolia still smiled. -You look a little vulpine yourself. The two queens sat for a moment in happy agreement.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Queens, Agreement, Two

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• It is terrifying,” said Adrian. “And weird, for lack of a better word. And part of you knows… well, part of you knows something’s not right. That your thinking’s not right. But what do you about that? All we can go on is what we think, how we see the world. If you can’t trust your own mind, what can you trust? What other people tell you?

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, People, Mind

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.189, Penguin

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• I wonder is happiness only an essence of good living, that you shall taste only once or twice while you live, and then go on living with the taste in your mouth, and wishing you had the fullness of it solid between your teeth, like a good meal that you have tasted and cherished and look back in your mind to eat again.

  Richard Llewellyn

  Essence, Mind, Wish

  RICHARD LLEWELLYN (1967). “HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY”

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• From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.

  Ray Bradbury

  Edges, Looking Back, Remorse

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Illustrated Man”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• She said, "I will go no farther." "There is no choice. We can only go on." The magician said again. "We can only go on.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Choices, Said, Magician

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• More striking still, it appeared that, if the process of concentration goes on at the same rate, at the end of another century we shall have all American industry controlled by a dozen corporations and run by perhaps a hundred men. Put plainly, we are steering a steady course toward economic oligarchy, if we are not there already.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Running, Men, Dozen

  Commonwealth Club Address, delivered 23 Sept 1932, San Francisco, CA

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• The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far inside. One's most private wishes, one's point of view, are the things that have to be changed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Self, Views

  BBC Radio Talk: "Beyond Personality -- Mere Men", Broadcast 21 March 1944, BBC Home Service Radio

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• Basement?' Hamish cried, then glanced at his brother. 'You hear this fellow? He thinks we can just go on down to the furnace and start tinkering?' Angus laughed. 'He probably wouldn't care at all if the whole place went boom, he wouldn't.' At this the guard bristled and stood up even straighter. 'Now see here---' 'No, you see, my good man. Out here, see, we've got snow. So in there, I'd bet, you've got heat. And where there's heat there's gas; and where there's gas there's...' Angus trailed off while his brother said, 'boom.

  Ally Carter

  Brother, Men, Thinking

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• We’re going to die and not even know. We’ll never know, and all this meaninglessness will just go on and on and on. And we won’t any longer be witnesses to it. We won’t have even that little bit of power to give meaning to it in our minds. We’ll just be gone, dead, dead, dead, without ever knowing!

  Anne Rice

  Knowing, Giving, Mind

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.865, Ballantine Books

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• I wish people would stop hitting Po," whispered Bitterblue. "Well," Giddon said. "Yes. I'm hoping Skye is following my model. Punch Po; go on a long trip; feel better; come back and make up.

  Kristin Cashore

  Feel Better, Long, People

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.333, Penguin

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• If I go on talking and talking...and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Talking, Bears, Forget

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.23, Xist Publishing

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• You can have the courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific. That any fool can do, but the courage to be on your own, to stand on your two solid feet, is something which cannot be given by somebody.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Courage, Lakes, Two

  "The Courage to Stand Alone: Conversations with U.G. Krishnamurti". Book edited by Ellen J. Chrystal (Part III: Nice Meeting You, and Goodbye), 2001.

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• Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain. I love you still among these cold things. Sometimes my kisses go on those heavy vessels that cross the sea towards no arrival. I see myself forgotten like those old anchors. The piers sadden when the afternoon moors there. My life grows tired, hungry to no purpose. I love what I do not have. You are so far. My loathing wrestles with the slow twilights. But night comes and starts to sing to me.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love You, Twilight, Tired

  Pablo Neruda, “Here I Love You”

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• Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. Questioners sooner or later end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Magic, Library

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• I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were tremendously complicated, to be sure, but one thing was clear: no one needed me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moving, World, Earth

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1997.

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• Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.

  Mark Twain

  Supposing That, Guessing, Patient

  Mark Twain (2007). “The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain”, p.209, Modern Library

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