Gone Quotes

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  If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, God, Country

  Remarks at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, delivered 23 August 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX

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• If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Deception

  Following the Equator ch. 59, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Change, Courage

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Jul 06, 2015

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• Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

  Joni Mitchell

  Motivational, Human Condition, Knows

  Song: Big Yellow Taxi

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• I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

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• God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

  Meister Eckhart

  Funny, God, Home

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• Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

  Mary Astor

  Asking Questions, Asking, Innocence

  Mary Astor (1971). “A life on film”

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• Not lost, but gone before.

  Matthew Henry

  Losing, Lost

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• I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

  James A. Baldwin

  Forgiveness, Encouragement, Pain

  "Me and My House". Harper's Magazine, November 1955.

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• After all, tomorrow is another day.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Birthday, Movie, Hope

  Gone with theWind pt. 5, ch. 63 (1936) See Proverbs 302

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• Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Way, Danger

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2002). “Letters on Cézanne”, p.4, Macmillan

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• Your absence has gone through me

  W. S. Merwin

  Missing You, Absence, Missing

  William Stanley Merwin, “Separation”

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• have i gone mad? im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.

  Lewis Carroll

  People, Mad, Let Me

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• It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.

  Rumi

  Home, Going Away, Moving Away

  "The Essential Rumi". Book translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson. Chapter 20: "In Baghdad, Dreaming of Cairo: More Teaching Stories", p. 206, 1995.

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• Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

  Horace Mann

  Life, Time, Sunset

  'Lost, Two Golden Hours'

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• Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.

  Conrad Hall

  Boyfriend, Fathers Day, Dad

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• Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Mar 18, 2015

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• My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.

  Joni Mitchell

  Names, Matter, Progressive

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• When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.

  Eric Dolphy

  Music, Air, African American

  Holiday magazine, Vol. 58,p. 13, 1977.

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• I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Light

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• I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.

  Steven Wright

  Dog, Pet, Irritated

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• My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.

  Julia Morgan

  Talking, Long, Legacy

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• Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

  Samuel Smiles

  Time, Business, Medicine

  Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.389, The Floating Press

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• We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Freedom, Yoga, Air

  "The 100 Greatest Heroes" by Harry Paul Jeffers, (p. 60), 2003.

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