Quotes about going
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“Go small, go simple, go now”

Cruising in "Seraffyn"

“You can't just go out-
No, I'll dream another dream.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: The Kill

Zora Neale Hurston photo

“Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.”

Variant: There is two things everybody got to find out for theirselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Jodi Picoult photo
Richelle Mead photo
Orson Scott Card photo
Chuck Palahniuk photo
Madonna photo
Simone de Beauvoir photo

“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”

Pt. 2, Ch. 2: Time, activity, history, p. 412
The Coming of Age (1970)
Source: La Vieillesse

Yann Martel photo
William Golding photo
Elizabeth Gilbert photo
Philippa Gregory photo
Joseph Campbell photo
Brandon Sanderson photo
Chuck Palahniuk photo

“Billions of things are going on in this world. You can think about it all you want, but life is still going to keep on happening.”

Michael Singer (1945) American landscape architect

Source: The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Nick Hornby photo
Jonathan Stroud photo
Michael Cunningham photo
Jim Butcher photo
Gabrielle Zevin photo
Charles Bukowski photo

“it does seem
the more we drink
the better the words
go.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

William Faulkner photo
Jane Austen photo
Chuck Palahniuk photo

“Find what you're afraid of most and go live there.”

Variant: Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.
Source: Invisible Monsters

Jennifer Weiner photo

“You are bad and mean and I'm going to spit on your cupcakes.”

Sarra Manning (1950) British writer

Source: Adorkable

Robin McKinley photo
Vincent Van Gogh photo

“When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

Quote in a letter to Theo van Gogh, from Arles, c. Saturday, 29 September 1888; as cited in An Examined Faith : Social Context and Religious Commitment (1991) by James Luther Adams and George K. Beach, p. 259
1880s, 1888

David Foster Wallace photo

“Everything I’ve ever let go of had claw marks on it.”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

Variant: Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.

Chuck Palahniuk photo
Markus Zusak photo
F. Scott Fitzgerald photo
Laurie Halse Anderson photo
David Levithan photo

“I'm not even going to try.”

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Paulo Coelho photo

“Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work.”

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Holly Black photo
Maira Kalman photo

“if something does go wrong, here is my advice… KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.”

Maira Kalman (1949) Israeli American artist and creator of children's books

Source: The Principles of Uncertainty

Nancy Mitford photo
Raymond Carver photo
Philippa Gregory photo
Warren Buffett photo
Jenny Han photo
Thomas Hardy photo
Robert Frost photo

“Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

"Birches" (1920)
General sources
Source: Swinger of Birches
Context: I’d like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate willfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.

Rick Riordan photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Gretchen Rubin photo

“I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasnt going to change unless I made it change.”

Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer

Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

Rachel Caine photo
Brené Brown photo

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

“Dear Diary,
Oh, it's all too much to explain and you wouldn't believe it anyway. I'm going to bed.
Bonnie”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Dark Reunion

Sarah Dessen photo
Mary Wortley Montagu photo
Haruki Murakami photo
Ernest Hemingway photo
Jack Kerouac photo
Wendell Berry photo
Sarah Dessen photo
Dorothy Parker photo

“She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. photo
Rick Riordan photo
Cassandra Clare photo
George Carlin photo

“Some people see things that are and ask, Why?
Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not?
Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Cf. Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah (1921), Pt. I : In the Beginning: I hear you say "Why?" Always "Why?" You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
Books, Brain Droppings (1997)
Variant: Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that shit.

Stephen Chbosky photo
Maureen Johnson photo
John Irving photo
Janet Evanovich photo
Simone de Beauvoir photo
Deb Caletti photo