Going Away Quotes - Page 26

• According to Maslow, I was stuck on the second level of the pyramid, unable to feel secure in my health and therefore unable to reach for love and respect and art and whatever else, which is, utter horseshit: The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness. Maslow's pyramid seemed to imply I was less human than other people, and most people seemed to agree with him.

  John Green

  Art, Philosophy, Pyramids

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

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• If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Parent, Needs

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.20, HarperCollins

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• I wouldn’t expect you to get it, Daisy. You don’t look at anything besides Photoplay—and even then somebody’s gotta explain the pictures to you.” Daisy’s mouth hung open in outrage. “Well, I never!” “Yeah, that’s what you tell all your fellas, but the rest of us aren’t buying it. Go away, now, Daisy. Shoo, little fly!

  Libba Bray

  Looks, Mouths, Littles

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• I would very much like to strangle someone. Why don't you go away until I decide it isn't you?

  Megan Whalen Turner

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• I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.

  David Levithan

  People, Resentment, Ends

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.77, Egmont UK

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• She raised her eyebrows in a look that she hoped conveyed how much she was all right with him leaving her. After all, he was a prince. The most powerful men and women on Earth had summoned him. She understood. And yet he was still here, with her. "I'm fine," she said. "Go away.

  Marissa Meyer

  Powerful, Men, Eyebrows

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• If there is suffering, then it's best to accept it, because it won't go away just because you pretend it's not there. If there is joy, then it's best to accept that too, even though you're afraid it might end one day.

  Paulo Coelho

  Joy, Suffering, One Day

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• This is what it feels like to care about someone who doesn't feel the same. I'd only known how it felt to love someone who loved me just as fiercely. I'd never known rejection. I'd never wanted someone who didn't want me. The longing didn't go away with rejection.

  Abbi Glines

  Rejection, Care, Want

  Abbi Glines (2012). “While it Lasts”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• The correct arrangement of words will make these bad feelings go away tonight.

  Tao Lin

  Feelings, Tonight, Arrangements

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• But our love isn’t easy because it’s not meant to be. It requires work and sacrifice and protection. And I wouldn’t want it any other way, not right now, with the morning sun making the curtains glow and Her arms around my neck and the sounds of the street so far away. I’m in it for the long haul, I’m not going away.

  Pete Wentz

  Morning, Sacrifice, Long

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• And no. I must not go on thinking. For the pain will never go away. You just go on and live. In the dust of desertion. Still falling where last I loved.

  J. P. Donleavy

  Pain, Lost Love, Fall

  J. P. Donleavy (2007). “The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B”, p.299, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If I go away What would still remain of me? The ghost within your eyes? The whisper in your sighs? You see...Believe And I'm always there.

  Jon Oliva

  Love, Long Distance Relationship, Believe

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• We need to get ready for a world where terrorism will not ever fully go away.

  Major Owens

  Needs, World, Terrorism

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• Strange, that I came into the world with nothing, and now I am going away with this stupendous caravan of sin! Wherever I look, I see only God... I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.

  Aurangzeb

  War, Punishment, World

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• Take your time, think a lot,
  Why, think of everything you've got.
  For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not.
  From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.
  Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away.
  I know I have to go.

  Cat Stevens

  Dream, Travel, Thinking

  "Song: 'Father and Son' ('Tea for the Tillerman')". 1970.

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• The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not a cause for complacency or a time to celebrate the end of the struggle. The threat is not going away. The enemy has not lost interest. ...Fundamentally, we're in a struggle about ideology. Terrorists want to remake the world in their own image and it is the image that is intolerant of the kinds of institutions that we cherish.

  Michael Chertoff

  Country, Struggle, Years

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• "I don't like it" or "I like it". This sentence must go away from your tongue. Likes and dislikes are only for people who have limited vision. You should learn to appreciate.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• When I go away from you
  The world beats dead
  Like a slackened drum.

  Amy Lowell

  I Miss You, Missing You, Missing Someone

  Amy Lowell (2009). “Sword Blades and Poppy Seed”, p.66, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Time will pass, and we shall go away for ever, and we shall be forgotten, our faces will be forgotten, our voices, and how many there were of us; but our sufferings will pass into joy for those who will live after us, happiness and peace will be established upon earth, and they will remember kindly and bless those who have lived before.

  Anton Chekhov

  Time, Voice, Joy

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• I do not care if they do not like me," he said. "Maybe then they will let me alone, and I will not have to stay in China." The thought visibly struck him, and his head came up with sudden enthusiasm. "If I were very offensive, do you suppose they would go away now?" he asked. "Laurence, what would be particularly insulting" Hammond looked like Pandora, the box open and horrors loose upon the world. Laurence was inclined to laugh, but he stifled it out of sympathy.

  Naomi Novik

  Laughing, Insulting, Would Be

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• Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Leave Me Alone, Want, Leaving Me

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.1441, Delphi Classics

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• The exception is I'm not going away. Don't ask me to do that ever again.

  Tammara Webber

  Ask Me, Exception, Asks

  Tammara Webber (2011). “Good For You”, p.287, Tammara Webber

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• We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We're meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so we tell ourselves. But it's a long way from the morning to the evening.

  Rod McKuen

  Morning, Long, Solitude

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• If you get operated, something can go wrong and you can just say bye-bye to tennis. That's what happened to a lot of soccer players in Europe. They get operated, some things, it's not the mistake of the doctor. It's just some surgeries, they just don't go the right way...My injury will never go away. It's already become so chronic there's no chance to fix it so I can play without pain.

  Marat Safin

  Soccer, Pain, Mistake

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• You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course, the fault wasn't hers at all: it lay in language. Every language assumes a centrality, a fixed and settled point to go away from and come back to, and what my grandmother was looking for was a word for a journey which was not a coming or a going at all; a journey that was a search for precisely that fixed point which permits the proper use of verbs of movement.

  Amitav Ghosh

  Grandmother, Journey, Faults

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