Quotes about going
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“Date etiquette lesson number two: Don't die. Go on living.”

Dance Dance Dance

“Hannah: What's your plan?
Claire: Go get him
Hannah: Honey, that is not a plan. That's what we in the military call an objective.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Black Dawn

“So you want me to go to a human orgy, where I will not be welcome, and you want us to leave before I get to enjoy myself? ~Eric Northman”

Charlaine Harris book Living Dead in Dallas

Source: Living Dead in Dallas

“Harry Dresden: Some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste. Wizards and television.”

Jim Butcher book Death Masks

Source: The Dresden Files, Death Masks (2003), Chapter 1, Opening Line

Water

“The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)

Problem

“What about desserts?" I asked. "If the world comes to an end, I'm going to want cookies.”

Susan Beth Pfeffer book Life As We Knew It

Source: Life As We Knew It

World

“I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then I remembered that line from Jaws and couldn't help smiling: 'We're gonna need a bigger boat.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Smile, Soul, Help

“For a moment, staring down and realizing what I'd just done, I wanted to throw myself in after him, because surely there was no way I could go on living now.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

Way

“I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.”

Bryce Courtenay The Power of One

Source: The Power of One

Learning

“Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.”

Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate

Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays

Men, Heart, Clothes

“You know how it is - some hot guys don't make your hormones go crazy, while some unattractive guys have massive sex appeal. This guy had it all.”

Sylvia Day book Bared to You

Source: Bared to You

Sex, Guy

“All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.”

Evelyn Waugh book Vile Bodies

Source: Vile Bodies (1930)

Pleasure, Sleep

“To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Understanding

“I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.”

Dick Gregory (1932–2017) American comedian, social activist, social critic, writer, and entrepreneur

Nigger: An Autobiography (1964)

Hate, School, Home, Learning

“Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

People, Music

“Caroline, do you value your neck?"
"Yes, I'm rather fond of it. Why?"
"Because if you don't shut up, I'm going to wring it.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: To Catch an Heiress

“Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Life, School, Home, Parting

“I've got a good mind to go out and join a club and beat you over the head with it.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

“There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents, it is difficult to construct any narrative of your own.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

Children, Parent

“Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.”

George Lucas (1944) American film producer

Source: A New Hope

Learning

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”

Gloria Naylor (1950–2016) American writer

Friendship, For Friend, For Bestfriend, People

“As I walk back to the school on my own, I realise I'm crying. So I go back to the stories I've read about the five and I try to make sense of their lives because in making sense of theirs, I may understand mine.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

School, Understanding, Sense, Reading

“This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful.”

Sarah Ruhl Eurydice

Source: Eurydice

Love, Beauty, Housing

“I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: The Piper's Son

Life

“Go away, the old buildings said. There is no place for you here. You are not wanted. We have secrets.”

Harper Lee book Go Set a Watchman

Source: Go Set a Watchman

Secret

“Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away.”

Philip K. Dick book I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

VALIS (1981)
Source: I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

Reality

“I'm certainly not going to put my life on hold for him.”

Candace Bushnell book Summer and the City

Source: Summer and the City

Life

“She says that what you did was a cry for help."

"It was," I say. "That's why I was yelling 'Heeeelp!' I don't really go in for subtlety.”

Holly Black book White Cat

Source: White Cat

Help, Cry

“None of you appreciate me. Why is it so hard to believe that I could make a real contribution in these dark times? My cigarettes and I are going outside. At least they show me respect.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Time

“Surprise me, Atlantean. Attack. This isn’t a dance party. (Takeshi)
You know, this isn’t building my confidence. In fact, I think I’m just going to lie here for a bit and take in some sun. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Lie, Confidence, Thinking, Sun

“Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?”

Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth

Episode 1, Chapter 12
The Power of Myth (1988)
Context: This is the threat to our lives. We all face it. We all operate in our society in relation to a system. Now is the system going to eat you up and relieve you of your humanity or are you going to be able to use the system to human purposes? … If the person doesn't listen to the demands of his own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program, you're going to have a schizophrenic crack-up. The person has put himself off center. He has aligned himself with a programmatic life and it's not the one the body's interested in at all. And the world's full of people who have stopped listening to themselves.

“Even if it’s dangerous, and painful, and so very, very lonely. One must go on fighting- It is the only honorable thing to do”

David Klass book You Don't Know Me

Source: You Don't Know Me

Pain, Fight

“Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Source: A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary

Hope, Travel, Change

“Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.”

Ryū Murakami book Coin Locker Babies

Source: Coin Locker Babies (1980)

World, Sun

“One of you guys is going to have to feed the vampiric lawyer some blood and it can’t be me. (Caleb)
Why? You afraid of a little bite?
I’m anemic. (Nick)
And I’m Catholic. Doesn’t that knock me out of the running? (Nick)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

Guy

“They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it.”

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men

God

“The emerging woman… will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied… strength and beauty must go together.”

Louisa May Alcott book An Old-Fashioned Girl

Source: An Old-Fashioned Girl

Beauty, Soul, Strong, Heart

“Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.”

Jim Butcher book Small Favor

Source: Small Favor

Guy, Lying

“So if someone is thinking about me, then that's the place I go?”

Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto

Source: Naruto, Vol. 01: The Tests of the Ninja

Thinking

“Things can turn out differently, Apollo. That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.”

Rick Riordan book The Hidden Oracle

Source: The Hidden Oracle

Life

“I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Source: The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

School, Learning

“Go to sleep, baby, Mama will sing. Of blue butterflies, and dragonfly wings. Moonlight and sunbeams, raiment so fine. Silver and gold, for baby of mine. Go to sleep, baby. Sister will tell, of wolves and of lambs, and demons who fell.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Black Magic Sanction

Sister, Sleep, Singing, Baby

“If we humans are good at anything, it’s thinking we’ve got a terrific idea and going for it without acknowledging the potential consequences or our own ignorance.”

David Suzuki (1936) Canadian popular scientist and environmental activist

Idea, Thinking

“It is best not to go on for great quest for truth, it will only make you miserable”

René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

Truth

“So, does this make you visibly challenged? (Nick)
No, but if you don’t lay off me, I’m going to make you breathing impaired. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Night Embrace

Source: Night Embrace

“Hazel squinted. "How far?"
"Just over the river and through the woods."
Percy raised an eyebrow. "Seriously? To Grandmother's house we go?"
Frank cleared his throat. "Yeah, anyway.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

Housing

“There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.”

John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher

Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Pain, Solitude, Suffering, Distant

“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Source: Walden

Drink, Fish, Time

“She had thought she was going to save her mother, and now there was going to be nothing for her to do but sit by her mother's bedside, hold her limp hand, and home someone else, somewhere else, would be able to do what she couldn't.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Home

“You can kiss me if you like," she said.

Alex let go of her and turned away. "Thanks, Fiona," he said. "But frankly I'd prefer to kiss the horse.”

Anthony Horowitz book Point Blanc

Source: Point Blank

Kiss, Horse

“If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.”

James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright

Dogs, Personality

“if he goes and dies on me now, I know I'll go completely insane.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

World

“Can we go back to using Facebook for what it was originally for - looking up exes to see how fat they got?”

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

“I can see now that it’s the little things, the small efforts, that keep a relationship going. And I know now too that in some small measure I have the power to hurt him and also the power to make it better.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Effort, Hurt

“What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only, that our illusions change as we go on; but, still, we are madmen all the same.”

J. Sheridan Le Fanu book In a Glass Darkly

Source: In a Glass Darkly

Fools, Angels, Change

“❝Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.❞”

Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist

People

“I don't care if you say we can't be together. I don't care if you think I'm the most evil, unnatural creature walking on earth. You can think whatever you want, go whatever you want. I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Love, Thinking, Evil

“We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)

Peace, Fight

“[I]sn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?”

Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

Source: Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

World, Sadness, Spring, Parting

“I would miss Colby, but it wasn't going anywhere. All the more reason why I should.”

Sarah Dessen book The Moon and More

Source: The Moon and More

“It may be that when we no longer know what to do,
we have come to our real work,
and that when we no longer know which way to go,
we have begun our real journey.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Way

“where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.”

Ernest Hemingway book Green Hills of Africa

Source: Green Hills of Africa

Feeling, Home

“If you choose to go looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Variant: If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.
Source: Vanishing Acts

“I hate it when my leg falls asleep. I know that means it's going to be up all night.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Hate, Night

“We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children. War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.”

Howard Zinn (1922–2010) author and historian

"The Old Way of Thinking" http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/Old_Way_Thinking.html, in The Progressive (November 2001)

War, Children, Time

“Chong said, 'Do yourself a favor, Morg. Next time you're staring at a girl's boobs, look up. You'll be shocked to learn it, but there's going to be a face up there. Nose, mouth, eyes. And behind the eyes is an actual person.”

Jonathan Maberry book Rot & Ruin

Source: Rot & Ruin

Girl, Learning, Time, Personality

“Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.”

Hamza Yusuf (1958) American Islamic scholar

Faith

“Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.”

Madeleine L'Engle book Meet the Austins

Source: Meet the Austins

Peaceful, Home, Parting

“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“When are you going to trust me Max?" asked Fang.
"When I go completely bonkers," I laughed.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

“You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.”

Eric Roth (1945) American screenwriter

Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

Fate, Dogs, Way, Madness

“You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C. S. Lewis in Mere Christianity)”

George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist

Quotes

“Mmm, he rumbled into my ear. I thought that being married meant that I never go to bed hungry.”

Patricia Briggs book River Marked

Source: River Marked

“This is my mother’s wedding,”«" she said. "We’re not going to have sex. At all."
"But ‘at all’ is my favorite way to have sex.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Sex, Way, Wedding

“He caught me to him, his arms banded tight around me. His face pressed into my throat. "Where do we go from here?"
I held him. "Wherever this takes us. Together.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Reflected in You

“What are you going to have?” he asked.
“A nervous breakdown,” she muttered and opened her menu.
So we’ll tell the waitress to make that a double, he thought.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Beauty and the Black Sheep (The Moorehouse Legacy, #1)

“Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.”

Roald Dahl (1916–1990) British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter

World

“You’re a solid person, Sage. You’re easy on the eyes, if a little skinny, and your ability to memorize useless information is going to totally hook in some guy.”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

Guy, Personality

“Whenever I get that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

Sadness, Feeling

“You lying lunatic bastard. They're going to kill you."
"I love you too," he murmured. "Go find Seph.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Dragon Heir

Love, Lying

“Don't go fighting against the Spring.”

E.M. Forster book A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View

Spring, Fight

“Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.”

Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Waiting, Perfection

“And tell them what?" Jace said witheringly. "That invisible people are bothering you? Trust me, little girl, the police aren't going to arrest someone they can't see”

Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments

Clary and Jace, pg. 44
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
Source: City of Bones / City of Ashes / City of Glass / City of Fallen Angels / City of Lost Souls
Context: "Do you want to tell me what this is about, or should I just call the police?"
"And tell them what?" Jace said witheringly. "That invisible people are bothering you? Trust me, little girl, the police aren't going to arrest someone they can't see."

People, Girl

“Hello, I must be going.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

“Being enough was going to have to be an inside job.”

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

“I will go in, go down, go back.”

Lauren Slater (1963) American psychologist

“Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going to die.”

Philip Pullman book Northern Lights

Variant: Human beings can’t see anything without wanting to destroy it, Lyra. That’s original sin.
Source: His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass (1995), Ch. 21 : Lord Asriel's Welcome

Death

“Turn up your hearing aid 'Grandpa', because I'm only going to say this once!”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

“As exits go, that's a good one." It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire.”

Charlaine Harris book All Together Dead

Source: All Together Dead

“It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.”

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer

Life

“It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse." Page 316”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Variant: It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.
Source: Life of Pi

Life, Heart

“I need a bodyguard."
Simon eyed him. "Have you been watching The Bodyguard? Because I am not going to fall in love with you and carry you around in my burly arms.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Love