Variant: Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned
“I know, but I do not approve. And I am not resigned.”
“Are you going to come along quietly, or am I going to have to use ear plugs?”
The Goon Show, Season 9, Episode 12: "The Call of the West" (January 20, 1959)
Alternative: "Are you going to come along quietly, or do you want musical accompaniment?"
“I do not know where I am going. But I am quite weary enough of where I’ve been.”
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 9 (p. 157)
Van Meter, Jonathan. "The Hunger Games' Jennifer Lawrence Covers the September Issue" http://www.vogue.com/magazine/print/star-quality-jennifer-lawrence-hunger-games/. vogue.com. August 12, 2013. Retrieved March 29, 2014.
Abbott Planchard, p. 212
The Grail Quest, Heretic (2003)
As quoted in "How did I survive my childhood?" in The Telegraph (16 December 2005)
“What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.”
Paris Review interview (1969)
Context: When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under a great strain. Writers care greatly how a thing is said — it makes all the difference. So they are constantly faced with too many choices and must make too many decisions.
I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.
“I feel I can't go on with this bloody business: I would rather resign.”
Quoted by C. P. Scott in his diary (28 December 1917), in Trevor Wilson (ed.), The Political Diaries of C. P. Scott, 1911-1928 (London: Collins, 1970), p. 324
Prime Minister
Context: "I warn you", said Lloyd George, "that I am in a very pacifist temper". I listened last night, at a dinner given to Philip Gibbs on his return from the front, to the most impressive and moving description from him of what the war really means that I have heard. Even an audience of hardened politicians and journalists was strongly affected. The thing is horrible and beyond human nature to bear and "I feel I can't go on with this bloody business: I would rather resign."
