Quotes about going
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“You can't just go out-
No, I'll dream another dream.”
Source: The Kill
Source: Pleasure of a Dark Prince
“If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.”
Source: Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons
“Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.”
Source: The Goldfinch
“Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.”
Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Source: The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
“it does seem
the more we drink
the better the words
go.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.”
“Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.”
Source: Mansfield Park
“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
“You are bad and mean and I'm going to spit on your cupcakes.”
Source: Adorkable
Source: Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure
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
“Everything I’ve ever let go of had claw marks on it.”
Variant: Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.
“Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work.”
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“if something does go wrong, here is my advice… KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.”
Source: The Principles of Uncertainty
“If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.”
Source: The Other Boleyn Girl
“I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.”
“Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.”
"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.
“You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.”
Source: The Education of Little Tree
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
“It's a f*** you world. Well, keep it going anyhow, what the hell.”
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Source: Froi of the Exiles
Source: Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite
Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior
Source: Sugar Daddy
“She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.”
Source: On the Edge
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.
Source: It's a Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection