Quotes about going
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“I would rather die than ever see you suffering this way. I don't want you or any child I ever have or any woman I ever love to go through or feel what you're going through, but it's happened and I don't know what to do.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

Love, Way, Feeling, Suffering

“It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.”

Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer

Hope, Appearance

“If it makes you feel better, I’m not happy with the way all this went down any more than you are. But sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Kiss of the Night

Way, Feeling, Happiness

“Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

As quoted in Vogue (14 March 1963)
1960s
Variant: Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

Life, Way

“My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.”

James Joyce book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Heart

“You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.”

Hilary Mantel book An Experiment in Love

Source: An Experiment in Love

Time

“How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt to re-live them. How crushed we are when we discover that the gold was merely gold-plating thinly coated over lead, chalk and peeling paint.”

Henry Rollins book Black Coffee Blues

Source: Black Coffee Blues

Lie, Memory, Time, Heart

“And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Fear, Understanding

“I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try to write as much as I did without falling off of your chair.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Drink

“Anything else?"

Haymitch rises to go. "While I was waiting… I ate your lunch.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Variant: While I was waiting... I ate your lunch.
Source: Mockingjay

Waiting

“As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn't go quite so far around it as others.”

Bill Bryson (1951) American author

Source: In a Sunburned Country

World

“If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: The First Bad Man

Life

“Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.”

Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Life, Time

“He stepped back and threw his arms out.
"I'm always crazy around you Rose. Here, I'm going to write an impromptu poem for you."
He tipped his head back and shouted to the sky:
"Rose is in red
But never in blue
Sharp as a thorn
Fights like one too.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

Fight

“You will eat this and go to sleep, so your pronouns get their antecedents back.”

Patricia Briggs book Frost Burned

Source: Frost Burned

Sleep

“Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it.”

Philip Roth (1933–2018) American novelist

Literature

“Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Love, Books, Boy

“Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.”

David Eddings book Belgarath the Sorcerer

Source: Belgarath the Sorcerer

Education, Question

“… show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight for their lives because someone is telling them that they're going to be okay.”

Max Brooks book World War Z

Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

People, Fight

“Worry about staying alive first. Then worry about how you're going to live.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

“Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?”

James Hilton Random Harvest

Source: Random Harvest

Idea

“If people don't want to come to the ballpark how are you going to stop them?”

Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach

The Yogi book: I really didn't say everything I said!, Workman Publishing, 1997, ISBN 0761110909, p. 36.
The quote "If people don’t want to come, nothing will stop them" first appears in 1952, credited to music impresario Sol Hurok. It was first attributed to Berra in 1962. See http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/10/30/stop-em/
Disputed

People

“You guys are going somewhere or just going?”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

Guy

“Isn't there a mirror someplace where you can go admire yourself?"
"I never knew a woman so hung up on my good looks."
"All your women are hung up on your good looks. They just pretend it's your personality.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: This Heart of Mine

Women, Personality

“Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your
old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart”

Edith Wharton book The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“What was lost was lost. There was no retrieving it, however you schemed, no returning to how things were, no going back.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“Now, if you ask me, what’s going on is that we’re all up to here in it, and probably the most important thing is that we not yell at one another.”

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

“I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.”

Simone de Beauvoir book The Blood of Others

Source: The Blood of Others

Imagination, Thinking

“Assumptions and expectations will kill any relationship, so let’s you and me not go there, okay?”

Ruth Ozeki book A Tale for the Time Being

Source: A Tale for the Time Being

“I cannot stay," he lied for me, eyes averted. "I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you." His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Variant: I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you." His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever.
Source: Black Magic Sanction

Love, Time, Cry

“… sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.”

Michael Ondaatje book Divisadero

Source: Divisadero

Art, Personality

“Love might have expanded her. But we are not all of us going to get loved. We are not all of us going to get expanded.”

Martin Amis (1949) Welsh novelist

Love

“Once I'm free, we're going to find out exactly how much pain you can endure while remaining conscious. I won't stop until you tell me where my ring is." He leaned in to say at his ear, "I'll be sure to make you feel your.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

Pain, Feeling

“Wildflower: Don't let people walk all over you, Buttercup. It's your life. If you want something, you need to get out there and grab it by the horns because no one is going to give you what you want on a plate. Good girls always come second.”

Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie

Source: Where Rainbows End

Life, People, Girl

“I feel myself shriveling along with my world, getting smaller and harder. I'm turning into a rock, and in some ways that's good, because rocks last forever.
But if this is how I'm going to last forever, then I don't want to.”

Susan Beth Pfeffer book Life As We Knew It

Source: Life As We Knew It

World, Way, Feeling

“If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That's what people meant when they talked about going to heaven. It was like waking up.”

Ian McEwan book The Daydreamer

Source: The Daydreamer

Life, People, Dreams

“You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.”

Elie Wiesel book A Beggar in Jerusalem

Source: A Beggar in Jerusalem

“I gotta go to the bathroom," Emby mumbles.
"You should have thought of that before you left," says Hayden, putting on his best mother voice. "How many times do we have to tell you? Always use the potty before climbing into a shipping crate.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

Time

“And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is
romance
and big things
and real dreams
that never go smash.”

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor

Dreams, Way

“You need me? You yell. You want to leave? We go. I'll get you out of here, no matter what.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

“Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?”

Elie Wiesel book Night

Source: Night

Understanding, Nature, Madness

“We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

Water

“The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there──shared vision and values.”

Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Family

“I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.”

Jodi Picoult book The Pact

Source: The Pact

Understanding

“She studied my face for a long minute. "Are you going to help my mom?" It was a simple question. But how do you tell a child that things just aren't that simple, that some questions don't have simple answers--or any answer at all?”

Jim Butcher book Storm Front

Source: Storm Front

Moms, Question, Study, Help

“I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost.
But I wouldn't have missed it for the world.”

Anthony Bourdain book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

World, Hope

“America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.”

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis

World, Success

“I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Women

“Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Variant: Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.
Source: Life of Pi

Faith, Love, God, Faith

“If you're going to read this, don't bother.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Reading

“It's probably not going to lead to anything. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. If everyone who thought they might fail didn't even try, where would we be today?”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

“One serial killer sends me a human head in a box, and I get all spooked; Go figure.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Skin Trade

Source: Skin Trade

Box

“So if the punks come here, they’re going to dance with the devil and get the short end of the horn. (Zarek)
No one better than my Zarek to rip someone’s head off. You two should get along famously. (Astrid)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dream Warrior

Dance

“If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day.”

Philip Pullman (1946) English author

Thinking

“eleven months.

now she's gone
gone as they go.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

People, Heart, Hurt

“My investigative technique mostly consisted of going through the list of interested parties and making as much noise as possible, until the culprit lost his patience and tried to shut me up.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

Patience

“The years go by, and I've told the story so many times that I'm not sure anymore whether I actually remember it or whether I just remember the words I tell it with.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

Source: The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory

Time

“Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.”

Alan Bennett book The Uncommon Reader

Source: The Uncommon Reader

Books, World, Time

“When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.”

Elin Hilderbrand (1969) American writer

Source: Barefoot

Life

“Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Joy and woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 56. Compare Psalm 30:5 (KJV): "weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning."

World, Soul, Joy, Clothes

“Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.”

Stephen King book The Long Walk

Source: The Long Walk

Shoe, Star, Dance

“If I blow the conch and they don't come back; then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll never be rescued."
"If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway.”

William Golding book Lord of the Flies

Source: Lord of the Flies

Animals

“But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it.”

Markus Zusak book Fighting Ruben Wolfe

Source: Fighting Ruben Wolfe

Fight

“So the quesiton is," Bex said slowly,"How far are you willing to go?"
I looked at my three best friends in the world. "How far is there?”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

World

“I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

Color, Forgetting

“Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

Women, Home

“She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Hell

“Zack shook his head. "I am glad you aren't mine. You're going to be dead before you're forty."
"No," rumbled my husband's soft deep voice from the hallway. "I'm going to be dead before she's forty.”

Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer

Source: Shifting Shadows: Stories from the World of Mercy Thompson

Dead

“I don't feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it's here. And I think anything good that you're going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.”

Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress

People, World, Feeling, Thinking

“Maybe getting around in life was nothing but map-reading. A skill that required practice. A key to unlock where you wanted to go. A legend to show where you were.”

Justina Chen (1968) American writer

Source: North of Beautiful

Life, Reading

“If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best I can with it.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Hope, Freedom

“As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) American feminist, writer, commercial artist, lecturer and social reformer

Source: The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings

Men, World, Evil

“If there's something as good as [him] in my life, I'm going to pay for it.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Life

“… even the most independent people sometimes needed help. And if I'd learned nothing else from my life thus far, it was that you don't always end up where you think you're going.”

Margaret Peterson Haddix book Just Ella

Source: Just Ella

Life, People, Thinking, Learning

“What is success?" poses the Copt. "It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Variant: What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

Peace, Soul, Success, Night

“Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must.”

Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory

Variant: Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.
Source: My Name Is Memory

Love

“I don’t give a damn if they throw me down into the deepest, slimiest pit for eternity. I belong here and no one is going to make me leave. No one! (Selena)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Seize the Night

“And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.”

James Joyce (1882–1941) Irish novelist and poet

Heart, Madness

“It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.”

Loren Eiseley (1907–1977) US philosopher (1907-1977)

Love, Time

“How do you go on knowing that you will never again - not ever, ever - see the person you have loved? How do you survive a single hour, a single minute, a single second of that knowledge? How do you hold yourself together?”

Howard Jacobson book The Finkler Question

Source: The Finkler Question

Love, Knowledge, Personality

“If you are going to go through hell… I suggest you come back learning something.”

Drew Barrymore (1975) American actress, director and producer

Hell, Learning

“No, I'll dream another dream," he said. "I've made up so many things, now I'll just go into one. I'll be part of it.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Dreams, Parting

“Throwing down your staff may sound like a sign of surrender, but in Egyptian magic, it's bad news. It usually means, 'Hey, I'm going to summon a big nasty thing to kill you while I stand safely inside my circle and laugh'.”

Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire

Source: The Throne of Fire

“I think that when you live in a world with limits… when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

Life, World, Hope, Thinking

“I cannot do it. I cannot bear it. I cannot go back to what I was here. I cannot stand at her side and watch another take her. I am not that strong or that good.”

Laurell K. Hamilton A Stroke of Midnight

Source: A Stroke of Midnight

Strong

“You gotta be able to explain things to yourself when the lights go off and you get in the bed. You gotta deal with you at the end of the day.”

John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter

Light

“Not enough." Margo rose and tucked the towel in place. " Come on, let's go stuff her in a locker. For old time's sake.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Daring to Dream

Time

“The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.”

Stanley Coren (1942) American psychologist

Fear, Dogs

“You'll find as you go through life that great depth and smoldering sensuality don't always win.”

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

Life

“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on.”

Mike Royko (1932–1997) American writer and newspaper columnist

Smile, Idea

“53. 'We mainly suppose the experiential quality to be an intrinsic quality of the physical object'-this is the so-called systematic illusion of color. Perhaps it is also that of love. But I am not willing to go there-not just yet. I believed in you.”

Maggie Nelson (1973) American writer

Source: Bluets

Love, Color

“Hey… You.. What's life without eyebrows, freak? Got a new listing for your bingo book right here!! A guyis going to be the next lord hokage of Konohagakure village. Uzumaki Naruto! Konoha-school NINJA!”

Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto

Source: Naruto, Vol. 02: The Worst Client

Life, Books, School

“Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.”

Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist

Source: Lying

Imagination

“I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Way

“One down," Beckendorf said. "About five thousand to go." He tossed me a jar of thick green liquid—Greek fire, one of the most dangerous magical substances in the world. Then he threw me another essential tool of demigod heroes—duct tape”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

World

“We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

"Remarks in Newport at the Australian Ambassador's Dinner for the America's Cup Crews (383)" (14 September 1962) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx <br class="br">1962 <br class="br">Context: I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it's because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea — whether it is to sail or to watch it — we are going back from whence we came.

Sea

“And things go unsaid soon get forgotten”

Malorie Blackman Noughts & Crosses

Source: Noughts & Crosses

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