Quotes about going
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“If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.”

Muriel Spark (1918–2006) Scottish writer

“What did they think I was going to do, steal a body? If I wanted to, I could empty the damn place and get every corpse to play follow the leader. Perhaps that was why I needed watching. Perhaps." --Anita Blake”

Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist

Thinking

“I love you," he said, his voice catching. "When I thought you were going to die, I wanted to die.”

Eloisa James (1962) American academic

Source: When Beauty Tamed the Beast

Love

“When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.”

Eugene H. Peterson (1932–2018) American translator

God

“Annabeth glared at me like she was going to punch me. But she did something that surprised me even more…

She kissed me.”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Kiss

“I can't go down there. They think I'm dead!
Oh, you've remembered that. Good for you.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Thinking, Dead

“You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

People, Horse

“Wrongly chosen, wrongly slain, A hero Valhalla cannot contain. Nine days hence the sun must go east, Ere Sword of Summer unbinds the beast.”

Rick Riordan book The Sword of Summer

Source: The Sword of Summer

Sun, Summer

“Look, lady, we're not going to go all HUNGER GAMES on each other. Isn't going to happen.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Variant: He forced his fists to unclench. "Look, lady, we're not going to go all Hunger Games on each other. Isn't going to happen.
Source: The Blood of Olympus

Hunger, Game

“Do you know what pain is, Cammie? It’s the
body’s physical response to imminent harm.
It is the mind’s way of telling us to move our
hand off the stove or let go of the broken
glass.”

Ally Carter Out of Sight, Out of Time

Source: Out of Sight, Out of Time

Pain, Way

“How true, how true" said the Sour Kangaroo, "And from now on, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm going to protect them with you!"
And the Young Kangaroo in her pouch said "Me too!”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

“But even this piece of flattery couldn't distract me from the fact that I was in the center of the Fae realm, blind, stark naked, and without the slightest idea of what was going on.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Idea

“We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine… forever.
-Tōshirō Hitsugaya (Bleach)”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Way, Time

“Isn't it so weird how the number of dead people is increasing even though the Earth stays the same size, so that one day there isn't going to be room to bury anyone anymore?”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

People, Dead

“The point is, Sin is now going to try to overthrow me again and take my place. Do you know what that means? (Artemis)
There will be much rejoicing? (Kat)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Devil May Cry

“No one could tell you: you just had to go through it on your own. If you were lucky, you came out on the other side and understood. If you didn't, you kept getting thrust back, retracing those steps, until you finally got it right.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.”

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) American artist

“When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.”

Bret Easton Ellis The Rules of Attraction

Source: The Rules of Attraction

Drink

“The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

Happiness

“We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.”

Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure

World, Painting

“There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

World

“He said there are thousands of Shadowhunters, but great love comes once in a lifetime if one is lucky, and one would be a fool to let it go.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Love, Fools

“You must never be afraid to go there.”

Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) American writer

“You have to let yourself be fully present in every moment. Just be awake for it, do you know what I mean? Go all in and wring every last drop out of the experience.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“(Sebastian) "See, there you go. You're always looking at me like that."
"Like what?"
"Like I burn down animal shelters for fun and light my cigarettes with orphans.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Light, Animals

“Alas! how easily things go wrong!
A sigh too deep or a kiss too long,
And then comes a mist and a weeping rain,
And life is never the same again.”

George MacDonald book Phantastes

Source: Phantastes (1858)

Life, Kiss

“sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!”

Sophie Kinsella book The Undomestic Goddess

Source: The Undomestic Goddess

Life

“You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it. Doesn’t it sound lovely beyond belief?”

Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden

Variant: You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.
Source: The Garden of Eden

Love

“Darling, when things go wrong in life, you lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail…”

Sophie Kinsella (1969) British writer

Life, Smile

“It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay." - China Sorrows -”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Mortal Coil

“There's a guy out there who will want to tell everyone that he is your boyfriend. Quit goofing around and go find him.”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Guy

“Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

Country

“Wherever you will go,
I will let you down,
But this lullaby goes on.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

“Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why my little party's just beginning.
~ Wicked Witch of the West Wizard of Oz”

L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think.”

Sarah Dessen book The Moon and More

Source: The Moon and More

People, School, Family, Thinking

“And what about the piranhas?”
“I doubt the fishies’ll snack on anything critical.” He leaned in to murmur at her ear, “They only go for small prey.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Pleasure of a Dark Prince

“Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.”

Christine Feehan book Night Game

Source: Night Game

Life

“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 book Correction

Source: Correction

“As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, think big.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

Thinking

“What did that mean? Where could it go? He was a death diety. I was a high school senior.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Abandon

Death, School

“I don't want you to rescue me you said, go home you said.”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Home

“I don't have the heart to tell him that's the wrong way to think about the world. There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

World, Way, Question, Thinking

“Like a horse, honey, somebody's gonna break you.'
'Never. Going. To. Happen.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Iced

Horse

“Oh, go to hell." But there wasn't any heat in the response.
"You're not supposed to smile when you say that.”

Nora Roberts book Carolina Moon

Source: Carolina Moon

Smile, Hell

“It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.”

Mick Jagger (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones

“I'm tired and I want to rest; I want to get out of this and go lie down somewhere, off where it's dark and no one speaks. Forever.”

Philip K. Dick book Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb

Source: Dr. Bloodmoney

Lie

“Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love.”

Clive Barker book The Thief of Always

Source: The Thief of Always

Love

“I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

“Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption … is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.”

Guy Debord (1931–1994) French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker and founding member of the Situationist International (SI)

Source: Society of the Spectacle (1967), Ch. 7, sct. 168.

“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.”

Laurence Binyon book For the Fallen

"For the Fallen" (1914), fourth verse
'Condemn' is sometimes quoted as 'Contemn'. Both make sense in the context, but it was 'condemn' which was included in the first printing of the poem on page 9 of The Times of 21 September 1914. Binyon did not change it to 'contemn' when shown the proof of a later printing.

Age, Sun

“I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff”

John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath

Source: The Grapes of Wrath

“After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Life, Waiting

“People are meant to go through life two by two. 'Tain't natural to be lonesome.”

Thornton Wilder Our Town

"Mrs. Gibbs"
Source: Our Town (1938)

Life, People, Nature

“It was beautiful in a harsh I'm-going-to-gut-you-like-a-fish kind of way.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Beauty, Way, Fish

“Teresa, Teresa. Have we taught you nothing?" Raffy says in an irritated voice. "It's war. You go in and you hunt him down until he realises that he's made a mistake.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

War

“There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size.”

Charlie Kaufman (1958) American screenwriter

Source: Adaptation.: The Shooting Script

People, World, Idea, Passion

“They're a little strange, but I'm pretty sure neither of them is going to try to make me uncomfortable by stripping naked.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

Friendship, For Friend, For Bestfriend

“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“Last time you called me late at night you were naked and chained to your shower curtain rod. I hope this isn't going to be disappointing.”

Janet Evanovich High Five

Source: High Five

Hope, Disappointment, Time, Night

“That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

Fools, Reading

“So are we going to continue glaring angrily at each other while we pose in our tough stances? Or use our time to work out a plan that hopefully doesn’t end with our mutual deaths? (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: One Silent Night

Death, Time

“Don't you notice that there are particular moments when you are naturally inspired to introspection? Work with them gently, for these are the moments when you can go through a powerful experience, and your whole worldview can change quickly.”

Sogyal Rinpoche (1947–2019) Tibetan Dzogchen lama of the Nyingma tradition

Nature, Change

“When a person is going through a hard time, his mind wants to give up. Satan knows that if he can defeat us in our mind, he can defeat us in our experience. That’s why it is so important that we not lose heart, grow weary and faint.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Source: Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

Time, Heart, Personality

“The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Idea, Strong, Personality

“Your shadow stealthily
leaves nothing of where you go, like a poisoned needle
that sews together my footsteps.
Your light pliantly
strikes the water tower, like a lightning bolt
that severs the source of my life.
-Soifon”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Source: Bleach, Volume 18

Life, Light, Water

“Lengthen your stride/go the extra mile”

Spencer W. Kimball (1895–1985) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

“and then you stopped. And looked at me. And I knew then exactly what was going to happen. You kissed me, yes. But it was not just goodnight. Even then, I could feel the promise in it. The promise that you would kiss me just like that, forever.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

Feeling, Kiss

“But… you said we were going to play Parcheezi…”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

“Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Pearls of Wisdom

Books, Question, Reading, Perfection

“May I make a suggestion," said Will. "About twenty paces behind us, in the Council room, is Benedict. If you'd like to go back in there and try kicking him, I recommend aiming upward and a little to the left-”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Variant: If I might make a suggestion,” said Will. “About twenty paces behind us, in the Council room, is Benedict. If you’d like to go back in there and try kicking him, I recommend aiming upward and a bit to the left—
Source: Clockwork Prince

“Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain…”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

Mountain

“Please don't go. We'll eat you up. We love you so.”

Maurice Sendak book Where the Wild Things Are

Variant: Oh, please don't go—we'll eat you up—we love you so!
Source: Parting words of the Wild Things to Max in Where the Wild Things Are (1963)

Love

“You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right”

Jack Canfield (1944) American writer

Time, Baby, Perfection

“It's funny about paths and rivers," he mused. "You see them go by, and suddenly you feel upset and want to be somewhere else--wherever the path or the river is going, perhaps.”

Tove Jansson book Comet in Moominland

Source: Comet in Moominland

Feeling

“I will kill him.”

“Erra’s eyebrows rose. “You’d have to go through me first.”

I shrugged. “I have to do something for a warm-up.”

She laughed softly. “That’s the spirit. I do think you might be my favorite niece.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

Thinking

“If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad. Arnold, get mad.”

Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Pain, Fear, Tear, Cry

“I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.”

Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter

Thinking, Time

“Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living.”

Jean Rhys (1890–1979) novelist from Dominica

Source: After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie

“The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.”

Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun

Variant: Hajime," she began, "the sad truth is that some things can't go backwards. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back to the way they were. If one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

Truth, Sadness, Way

“Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.”

Edward Albee (1928–2016) American playwright

Reading

“When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night

Source: Journey to the End of the Night

People

“I do love the beginning of the summer hols,' said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.'
'They go so nice and slowly at first,' said Anne, his little sister. 'Then they start to gallop.”

Enid Blyton book Five Go Off in a Caravan

Source: Five Go Off in a Caravan

Love, Age, Sister, Summer

“Excuse me, Captain. Are you two going to weep salty tears of admiration over a helmet all night, or do we have matters to discuss?”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Lost Colony

Tear, Night

“If you don’t go after Luke,” Clary said, enunciating very clearly, “I, personally, will kill you.”
For a moment Jocelyn looked astonished. Then she smiled. “Well,” she said, “if you put it like that.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Smile, Personality

“But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not going to become passionate about something that was impossible. I knew my limits; I knew how much suffering i could bear.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Suffering, Passion, Heart

“In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: Upstream: Selected Essays

World

“We're going to be okay."

Here's the thing about being a spy: sometimes all you have are your lies. They protect your cover and keep your secrets, and right then I needed to believe that it was true even when all the facts said otherwise.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: United We Spy

Secret

“Think of your head as an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.”

Augusten Burroughs book Dry

Variant: your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.
Source: Dry

Thinking

“Eve was still frowning at the pasta like she suspected it was going to do something
clever, like try to escape from the pot.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: The Dead Girls' Dance

“I don’t know how you do it. You aren’t even blond. I mean, maybe a little, but mostly you’re a brunette. I just don’t see guys going for that.”

“Yeah, well, some people are into kinky stuff, I guess.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Heat

People, Guy

“I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

People, Age

“Why not? Do you like him?” Magnus’s eyes gleamed. “He seems to like you. I saw him going for your hand out there like a squirrel diving for a peanut.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Variant: Magnus's eyes gleamed. "He seems to like you. I saw him going for your hand out there like a squirrel diving for a peanut.
Source: City of Glass