“There was coffee. Life would go on.”

Source: One Step Behind

Source: Robert Galinsky (2013) Coffee Crazy, p. 88

Source: The Windup Girl (2009), p. 41

Source: North of Beautiful

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Source: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
Context: Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
For I have known them all already, known them all: —
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.

Source: Captain Vorpatril's Alliance

Remarks allegedly made about Barack Obama to Ted Kennedy in 2008, as quoted in Game Change : Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime (2010) in John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
Attributed

Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense