Quotes about going
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“First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L. A. Public Library.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye

“Running down a dream…
working on a mystery…
going wherever it leads…”

Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician

Dreams

“You who have inhabited me
in the deepest and most broken place,
are going, going”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

“She'll never really let me go. She likes the game too much."
"Then stop playing it.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Game

“But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard part is that you never know which half is going to win.”

Melody Carlson (1956) American writer

Source: Finding Alice

Fear, Tear, Parting

“And so I’ll let you go, and let it be.

Whatever”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Fourth Comings

“When you grow up--and from the look of things, you have awhile--but you learn things never go back to normal simply because everyone's sorry. Sorry is ridiculous.”

Marisha Pessl Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Learning

“Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.'
'Where we going, man?'
'I don't know but we gotta go.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the world in our head coherent and understandable.”

Marya Hornbacher (1974) American journalist

World, Understanding

“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.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

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

Beauty, Intelligence

“Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.”

Louisa May Alcott book Jo's Boys

Source: Jo's Boys

Mother's Day, For Mother, World, Forgiveness

“What ho!" I said.
"What ho!" said Motty.
"What ho! What ho!"
"What ho! What ho! What ho!"
After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.”

P.G. Wodehouse book My Man Jeeves

Source: My Man Jeeves

“Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game… You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it's hardly ever what you expect.”

Gennifer Choldenko book Al Capone Does My Shirts

Source: Al Capone Does My Shirts

Hope, Game

“Possibly. Basically, everything that happens in our life is our fault and ours alone. A lot of people go through the same difficulties we went through, and they react completely differently. We looked for the easiest way out: a separate reality.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

Life, People, Way, Reality

“Tell you what, you let me go, and I’ll ask you plenty of questions about your race. Until then, I’m slightly distracted with how this little vacation on the good ship Holy Sh*t is going to pan out for me.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Unbound

Source: Lover Unbound

Question

“all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

Night, Country

“I'm scared," he says.
"I know," says the nurse.
"I want you all to go to Hell."
"That's natural.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

Hell, Nature

“If you never go out on that limb, you're missing a hell of a view.”

Jodi Picoult Plain Truth

Source: Plain Truth

Hell

“Good-bye Clarice. Will you let me know if ever the lambs stop screaming?" "Yes." Pembry was taking her arm. It was go or fight him. "Yes," she said. "I'll tell you." "Do you promise?""Yes.”

Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

Fight

“Everything is an illusion; that is the whole thing about it - illusion, immitation, a mirage. It makes me too sad. Its having like a good dream, you know you are going to wake up.”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

Sadness, Dreams

“The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you’re convinced that cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.”

James Beard (1903–1985) American chef

Love, Secret, Cooking

“Electric, wild, one foot in the swamp. Never going to crawl all the way out. And I wanted to have sex with whatever he was.
(Mac about Barrons)”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

Sex, Way

“Maggie threw her head back and laughed. 'So you're going to try… what? Birds of a Feather?' she quested.

'Of course not,' Kat said. 'Everyone knows the French government banned the importation of peacocks in 1987.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Uncommon Criminals

Bird

“So this is what it's about? This is your mature response to go off into the mountains rather than talking about it and have s'mores with a gnome and a mountain man."
"Yep"
"What's your plan for tomorrow? Brunch with a unicorn?”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Rises

Mountain

“I, had an excellent instructor. One that you currently have locked up. If you want to talk about skills going to waste, then go look in your own jail.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

“How am I going to live today to create the tomorrow I've committed to?”

Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker

Variant: How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?

“If you don't leave home you suffocate, if you go too far you lose oxygen.”

Vivian Gornick (1935) US author

The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative

Home

“Go home, and let all your relatives off the potter's wheel. You are not the potter!”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Home

“I was going to have to come up with a rank for myself besides Alpha's mate. In the pack, I was just Mercy- but if ten more people called me the Alpha's mate, I was going to hit someone. It sounded like a chess move.”

Patricia Briggs book Frost Burned

Source: Frost Burned

People

“You can’t keep messing me around like this. It’s been going on too long. I can’t take it anymore. I get sick every time you come around. Then I get sick when you leave. You’re like a disease to me.”

Sam Shepard Fool for Love

Source: Fool for Love

Disease, Time

“I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

Thinking

“There was something much greater she needed to feed her soul, and perhaps one day soon she would go…”

Danielle Steel Wanderlust

Source: Wanderlust

Soul

“Going with the flow is soothing but risky.”

Jenny Holzer (1950) American conceptual artist

“If we don't go forward, we won't find anything.”

Shiro Amano (1976) Japanese manga artist

Source: Kingdom Hearts, Vol. 1

“I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…

Source: American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Life, Star, Support, Thinking

“everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home.”

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

School, Home

“That which you manifest is before you.

The visible becomes inevitable. Your car goes where your eyes go.”

Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain

Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain

Cars

“Home is the place where when you go there, you have to finally face the thing in the dark.”

Stephen King book It

Source: It

Home

“Maybe the past is like an anchor holdong us back. Maybe you have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.”

Candace Bushnell (1958) American author

Past

“Permanence:
Just because they die, she said, doesn't mean they go away.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

“Come on, it's almost midnight. Let's go watch them cut the cake.”

Scott Westerfeld book Extras

Source: Extras

“She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.”

Judy Blume Summer Sisters

Source: Summer Sisters

Life

“When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

God

“Everyone at school seems to go by a nickname. Kat, Frosty, Bronx, Boo Bear, Jelly Bean, Freckles.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Alice in Zombieland

School

“Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptional. Most people go unobserved.”

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Source: Dance Dance Dance

Death, People, World, Way

“First, I blow a hole in your face; then I go back inside, and sleep like a baby… I guarantee you.”

Clint Eastwood (1930) actor and director from the United States

Sleep, Baby

“Von Linden really should know me well enough by now to realise that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity.”

Elizabeth Wein book Code Name Verity

Variant: Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity.
Source: Code Name Verity

Fight

“I went over and over everything that had ever happened between us. I couldn’t keep doing it, going back and fourth, holding her close and then pushing her away. It wasn’t right”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

“If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Way

“We like companionship, see, but we can't stand to be around people for very long. So we go get ourselves lost, come back for a while, then get the hell out again.”

Jon Krakauer book Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

People, Hell

“A piece of heaven?" I managed to ask.
He slowly shook his head. "No. The other place. The one I'm going to burn in for thinking what I'm thinking.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Thinking

“Mikhail?… Try making suggestions next time, or just plain asking. You go do whatever it is you're doing, and I'll go search you extensive library for a book on manners.
-You will not find it.
-Why am I not surprised?”

Christine Feehan book Dark Prince

Source: Dark Prince

Books, Search, Time

“I call it God Light, because it reminds me of heaven. Every time the light shines through the window we built or any window at all, you'll know I'm right there with you, okay? That's going to be me. I'll be the light in the window.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

God, Light, Time

“It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are
going.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

For Team

“Hope is all that keeps us going sometimes, biscuit”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Hope

“You are so beautiful, he mouthed. But of course she couldn’t see his lips. Guess he was going to have to show her.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Mine

Beauty

“It may be that when we no longer know which way to go that we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Way, Singing

“I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Love, Feeling, Sleep, Personality

“If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.”

Stephen King book Under the Dome

Source: Under the Dome

Dead

“There was more to say, but for once we did not say it. There would be other times for speaking, tonight and tomorrow and all the days after that. He let go of my hand.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

Time

“Life is absolutely unbearable. And we're going to die.”

Marjane Satrapi (1969) Artist

Life

“No one looks too closely at a librarian. People are afraid of going blind from the glare of-ssso much compressed wisdom.”

Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

Source: NOS4A2

Wisdom, People

“It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing; to be loved without satiety.”

John Steinbeck book The Log from the Sea of Cortez

Source: The Log from the Sea of Cortez

Love

“But oh, Mesdames, if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and tetrameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!”

William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair

Vol. I, ch. 12.
Source: Vanity Fair (1847–1848)

Love, Heart

“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Source: Dance Dance Dance

Past, Future

“People who have goals succeed because they know where they're going. It's that simple.”

Earl Nightingale (1921–1989) American motivational speaker

Source: How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds

People

“This was what could happen to you: you could end up this far from where you thought you were going.”

Wally Lamb book She's Come Undone

Source: She's Come Undone

“You have to let go of who you were to allow yourself to become who you are.”

Stacy London (1969) television host and author from the United States

“When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Feeling

“The key to a good life is this: If you're not going to talk about something during the last hour of your life, then don't make it a top priority during your lifetime.”

Richard Carlson (1961–2006) Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker

Life

“The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.”

Scott Westerfeld book Specials

Source: Specials

World, Beauty

“Girls have to go somewhere dangerous every now and then just so they know they can find their way home.”

Nicole Blackman (1971) American musician

Way, Home, Girl

“To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.”

André Gide (1869–1951) French novelist and essayist

Travel, Idea, Reading

“… but her eyes had had too much in them and his heart way too little for things to keep going.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Unleashed

Way, Heart

“Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.”

Guy De Maupassant Bel-Ami

Source: Bel-Ami

Life, Death, Feeling, Happiness

“There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?'

If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.”

Sam Keen (1931) author, professor, and philosopher

Source: Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man

For Men, Question

“Chance encounters are what keep us going.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002)

Chance

“If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them — not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.”

Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. III : A Controversy; Gilbert to Helen

World, Learning

“I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

“What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.”

Marisha Pessl (1977) American writer

Source: Night Film

Men, Personality

“If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

Love, God, Truth, Time

“When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time.”

Nick Hornby book The Polysyllabic Spree

Source: The Polysyllabic Spree

Books, Art, Time, Box

“Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Clary and Jace, pg. 313
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
Context: "Well, when I was five, I wanted my mother to let me go around and around inside the dryer with the clothes," Clary said. "The difference is, she didn't let me."
"Probably because going around and around inside a dryer can be fatal," Jace pointed out, "whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it."