Goes On Quotes - Page 27

• The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is tha life actually goes on.

  James Patterson

  Loss, Weird Things, Devastating Loss

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• But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Thinking, Paris

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

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• She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her.

  Rick Riordan

  Fate, World, Quests

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• It is not desire. Instead it is something deeper. I don't want to be with him constantly and forever. I want to be with him for the moment, and I want the moments to go on forever.

  David Levithan

  Forever, Desire, Want

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• Life must go on; I forget just why.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Grief, Forget

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.176, eBookIt.com

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• Everything is what it is, that's all. If we keep attaching meanings and mysteries to everything we perceive, everything we see that is, and to everything that goes on inside us, we are bound to go crazy sooner or later, I thought.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Crazy, Mystery, Perceive

  Thomas Bernhard (2013). “Correction: A Novel”, p.125, Vintage

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• Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a definition - is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty space, but the comforting marker-buoys and trail-signs of stories. He has to go on telling stories. He has to keep on making them up. As long as there's a story, it's all right. Even in his last moments, it's said, in the split second of a fatal fall - or when he's about to drown - he sees, passing rapidly before him, the story of his whole life.

  Graham Swift

  Children, Memories, Fall

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• There was no escaping what he had realized as he fought for warmth in the night. With or without him,the moon and the wind would go on, rising and falling. The land would keep stretching ahead until it hit the sea. People would keep dying. It made no difference if Harold walked, or trembled, or stayed at home.

  Rachel Joyce

  Fall, Home, Moon

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• Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by going back and reinventing some part of what I’ve already written so that when I write it again, it is believable and interesting to me. Then I can go on. Writer’s block is never solved by forcing oneself to “write through it,” because you haven’t solved the problem that caused your unconscious mind to rebel against the story, so it still won’t work – for you or for the reader.

  Orson Scott Card

  Block, Writing, Interesting

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• ...but ready or not,life goes on.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Life Goes On, Ready

  Sidney Sheldon (2005). “The Other Side of Me”

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• I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.

  Laini Taylor

  Life, Stardust, Someday

  Laini Taylor (2012). “Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.348, Hachette UK

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• It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.

  Nevil Shute

  World, Ends, Said

  Nevil Shute (1973). “A Nevil Shute omnibus”

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• The only miracle we can perform is to go on living, said the woman, to preserve the fragility of life from day to day, as if it were blind and did not know where to go, and perhaps it is like that, perhaps it really does not know, it placed itself in our hands, after giving us intelligence.

  Jose Saramago

  Hands, Giving, Miracle

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• People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.

  Libba Bray

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  Libba Bray (2012). “The Diviners: Number 1 in series”, p.321, Hachette UK

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• This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.

  Junot Diaz

  People, Forever, Knows

  Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.45, Faber & Faber

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• I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive – those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood.

  Osamu Dazai

  Beautiful, Mother, Hate

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• Death, but not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct. May I be brutally frank? You go on.

  Stephen King

  May, Gunslinger, Frank

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• It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Tired, Years, Old Things

  Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “The Sound of the Mountain”, p.138, Vintage

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• She wanted him to stop, but more than that, she wanted him to go on forever.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Forever, Wanted

  Lisa Kleypas (2008). “A Wallflower Christmas: A Novel”, p.36, Macmillan

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• Is there an answer to the question of why bad things happen to good people?...The response would be…to forgive the world for not being perfect, to forgive God for not making a better world, to reach out to the people around us, and to go on living despite it all…no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it has happened.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Asking Why, People, Perfect

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• And man will go on. Man, not men.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Prometheus

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.51, Xist Publishing

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• You may think I'm doing this without taking the time to really think it through, and you're absolutely right. It would take me the rest of my life to think this thing through. But it's while you're thinking, while you're weighing the pros and cons, that life goes on. It passes by you while you're doing nothing. - Arthur

  Marc Levy

  Thinking, May, Doing Nothing

  Marc Levy (2005). “If Only It Were True”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• We were walking toward the fountain, the epicenter of activity, when an older couple stopped and openly observed us. Robert enjoyed being noticed, and he affectionately squeezed my hand. "oh, take their picture," said the woman to her bemused husband, "I think they're artists." "Oh, go on," he shrugged. "They're just kids.

  Patti Smith

  Couple, Husband, Kids

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.47, A&C Black

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• I don't care if you say we can't be together. I don't care if you think I'm the most evil, unnatural creature walking on earth. You can think whatever you want, go whatever you want. I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Evil, Loving You

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• Thinking goes on in your head. It is not really deep into the roots of your being; it is not your totality.

  Rajneesh

  Thinking, Roots, Really Deep

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