Quotes about going
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“When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Life, Past, Joy

“There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)”

Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Pain, Way

“And when things start to go wrong, a good boss doesn't just fire everybody and start over.”

Lisi Harrison (1970) Canadian writer

Source: Boys "R" Us

“Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.”

Robert James Waller (1939–2017) American writer

Source: The Bridges Of Madison County

“When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle,
you can do incredible things.”

Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer

Source: My Favorite Quotations

Heart

“Oh for God's sake,' Heather said, 'I wish you two would just go out, fail miserably as a couple, and get it over with.”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

God

“There's no way you're going to get a quote from us to use on your book cover.”

Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

Metropolitan Police Spokesperson
Source: Wall and Piece (2005)

Books, Way, Quotes

“As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was about as far as it could go to hide.”

Richard Matheson book What Dreams May Come

Source: What Dreams May Come

“There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Life, Time

“I don't care," said Seth. "I would have done it. I would have sold my soul for you. You and me… I told you. Something's always going to keep us near each other… even if we aren't together.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Heat

Soul

“I wonder where we go when we die?”
“…Pittsburgh?”
“You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

“Well," said Apollo with a brave smile. "You were right, my dear. You had everything under control! Let's go see if we boiled anyone important, shall we?”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

Smile

“I said he kissed me. Really kissed me. It rocked me to my soul. It was brutal. It was brilliant. It was horrible. I thought I was going to die.”

Margaret Way (1900) Australian romance fiction writer

Source: Genni's Dilemma

Soul, Kiss

“On it!” Hazel said. “Go, Frank!” Dragon Frank veered to the left with Annabeth in one claw yelling, “Let’s get ’em!” and Percy in the other claw screaming, “I hate flying!”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Hate, Flying

“Call me crazy for asking this, but, um, are Lissa and I going with you?"
"No"
"No?"
"No.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

“I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if you will. And I had a feeling that something big was going to happen. To both of us. That we were, in fact, meant to be together.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

Feeling, Nature

“When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

People, Lie

“I've been going a long time now
along the way I've learned some things.

You have to make the good times yourself
take the little times and make them into big times
and save the times that are all right
for the ones that aren't so good.”

Rod McKuen (1933–2015) American poet, songwriter, composer, and singer

Source: Listen to the Warm

Way, Learning, Time

“It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Relationship, Feeling, Hurt

“A person could leave you so quickly. So much history and time and memories, but they snuck away from you, and other things took their place. How could you hold on? Wait. A bigger question. The biggest. How could you hold on and
let go?”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Story of Us

History, Question, Memory, Time

“It's a road!"
I patted his back." It's a lovely road. Now which way do we go?"
Corey looked one way, the brown ribbon extending into emptiness. He looked the other way, saw the same thing and his shoulders slumped.
"Damn.”

Kelley Armstrong (1968) Canadian writer

Source: The Calling

Love, Way

“And how did your day go?" I asked Ascanio.
He turned to me, a dreamy look on his pretty face. "We killed things. There was blood. Fountains of blood. And then we had barbecue.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Gifts

“So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Speech in the House of Commons, November 12, 1936 "Debate on the Address" http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1936/nov/12/debate-on-the-address#column_1107, criticizing Stanley Baldwin's record on rearmament against Hitler. <br class="br">The 1930s <br class="br">Context: Anyone can see what the position is. The Government simply cannot make up their mind, or they cannot get the Prime Minister to make up his mind. So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent. So we go on preparing more months and years — precious, perhaps vital to the greatness of Britain — for the locusts to eat.

“I go to seek a great perhaps”

Gabriel García Márquez book The General in His Labyrinth

Source: The General in His Labyrinth

“You don't want to fight the enemy anymore?"
"I don't want to fight anyone. I have no enemies. I want to go home.”

Ágota Kristóf (1935–2011) Hungarian Swiss writer

Source: The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels

Home, Fight

“How come when you mix water and flour together you get glue… and then you add eggs and sugar and you get cake? Where does the glue go?”

Rita Rudner (1953) American comedian

Water

“I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go”

Joseph Conrad book Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

“Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving
ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing
each other out. We set this house
on fire, forgetting that we live within.

(from "To a Meadowlark," for M. L. Smoker)”

Jim Harrison (1937–2016) American novelist, poet, essayist

Forgiveness, Housing, Forgetting

“Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

Thinking

“He almosted smiled. "There you go again. Why? Why do yo keep helping me?"
There were a million answers on my lips, everything from It's the right thing to do to I don't know. Instead, I said, "Because I want to.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

Smile, Help

“I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never again!”

Amy Hempel (1951) Short story writer

Source: Tumble Home: A Novella and Short Stories

“But I've bought a big bat.
I'm all ready, you see.
Now my troubles are going
To have troubles with me!”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

“I will not hang back here in Alicante while Magnus is in danger. Go without me, and you disrespect our parabatai oaths, you disrespect me as a shadowhunter, and you disrespect the fact that this is my battle too.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“I'd been in love with her for years. I never left this suburban town. I didn't go to university. I went to Audrey.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

Love, Universe

“She can go with us to the lab and keep Myrnin pinned down while we pull the plug, if he's not… you know, better."
"Define BETTER with that guy."
"Not all fangs and raaaaar.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Guy

“Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.”

Justina Chen (1968) American writer

Source: North of Beautiful

Way

“The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.”

Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth

Source: The Power of Myth (book), Ch. 2 : The Journey Inward
Context: One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

Light

“Sure," said Adrian. "I bet going in there and kicking down the door will change their minds. Take Rose with you, and you guys'll make a really good impression.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

Change

“Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood.”

Philip K. Dick book A Scanner Darkly

Source: A Scanner Darkly

Imagination, Childhood, Personality

“Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.”

Gary Paulsen book Hatchet

Source: Hatchet

Imagination, Reality

“We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us”

André Gide (1869–1951) French novelist and essayist

Source: Strait is the Gate and The Vatican Cellars

“Me, I’m late to meet my girlfriend. Annabeth is going to kill me.
Hope you enjoyed the stories. Stay safe out there, demigods.
Peace from Manhattan,
Percy Jackson”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

Peace, Hope

“Hush, Harry. Or you'll go to the special hell."

I blinked at that, confused. I'm not supposed to be the guy who doesn't get the reference joke, dammit.”

Jim Butcher book Cold Days

Source: Cold Days

Guy, Hell

“The Buddhists say if you meet somebody and your heart pounds, your hands shake, your knees go weak, that’s not the one. When you meet your ‘soul mate’ you’ll feel calm. No anxiety, no agitation.”

Monica Drake (1967) American writer

Source: Clown Girl

Feeling, Soul, Heart

“Creativity could be described as letting go of certainties.”

Gail Sheehy (1937) writer, biographer

“And therefor," said Magnus "We must go."
Will blinked at him. "Go where?"
"Don't worry about that right now, my love."
Will blinked again. "Pardon?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Love

“How can he do this? If you were mine, I would fight to keep you. I would die, before I let you go.”

Juliet Marillier book Daughter of the Forest

Source: Daughter of the Forest

Fight

“Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Life

“Well, what are we waiting for?… She said 'children.' I bet that's anyone under a couple of centuries old. Let's go.”

Donita K. Paul (1950) American writer

Source: DragonQuest

Children, Waiting

“… hear rumors and go digging for the painful truth beneath the lovely lies. You believe you have a right to these things, but you don't. When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Love, Life, Pain, Truth

“Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Thinking

“I'm not going to do that."
"of course you're not." Jace said. "because you live to torture me, don't you?"
"Not everything, Jace, is about you." Clary said furiously.
"Possibly," Jace said "But you have to admit that the majority of the things are.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Arm there," she said. "Other arm, idiot. Now hand there… okay, ready? We're going to start with your left foot. On three. One. Two… What the devil is he doing here?”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: Erak's Ransom

“Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.”

Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet

“The mind-is not the heart.
I may yet live, as I know others live,
To wish in vain to let go with the mind-
Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me
That I need learn to let go with the heart.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

Sleep, Learning, Heart, Night

“We shall go wild with fireworks… And they will plunge into the sky and shatter the darkness.
We don't have any fireworks that big”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

“I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay.”

Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American writer

People

“When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.”

D.H. Lawrence book Women in Love

Source: Women in Love

People, Game

“If suddenly you do not exist,
If suddenly you are not living,
I shall go on living.

I do not dare,
I do not dare to write it,
if you die.

I shall go on living.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

“Are you sure you want me to go after Christina? Lately I've kind of thought I might just give up on that. Plus, didn't you and I need to gaze into each other's eyes first? How will I know how to gaze at Christina? And my pebble kicking? Disaster.”

Jaclyn Moriarty (1968) Australian writer

Source: The Year of Secret Assignments

“Hold back the edges of your gown, Ladies, we are going through hell.”

William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) American poet

Hell

“I am going to keep my mind (well, what's left of it) occupied by doing (and I never thought the day would come when I would say this) my homework.”

Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer

“I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.”

John Burroughs (1837–1921) American naturalist and essayist

Source: The Summit of the Years

Books, Flowers, Nature, Bee

“I'm going to stab you through the heart with the same blade… not for the good of the world… but for myself.”

Kaori Yuki Japanese manga artist

World, Heart

“Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bomc,' I said. 'We have a protractor.'
Okay, I'll go home and see if I can scrounge up a ruler and a piece of string.”

Neal Stephenson book Anathem

Cord and Erasmas, Part 6, "Peregrin"
Source: Anathem (2008)
Context: “Do you need transportation? Tools? Stuff?”
"Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs. We have a protractor."
“Okay, I’ll go home and see if I can scrounge up a ruler and a piece of string.”
“That’d be great.”

Home

“When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees (2002)

Time

“Beyond the Wild Wood comes the Wide World,' said the Rat. 'And that's something that doesn't matter, either to you or me. I've never been there, and I'm never going, nor you either, if you've got any sense at all.”

Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows

Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 1

World, Sense

“Those that go searching for love
only make manifest their own lovelessness,
and the loveless never find love,
only the loving find love,
and they never have to seek for it.”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter

"Search for Love" in The Works of D. H. Lawrence, Wordsworth Editions, (1994), p. 552

Love, Search

“A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.”

Stephen King book Bag of Bones

Source: Bag of Bones

Personality

“I’ve come to ask you where Seth is.”
"Funny,” said Andrea. “We were going to ask you the same thing.”
I was taken aback. “How would I know?”
They both just stared.
"I don’t!”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Shadows

“When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called 'rent-a-spine.”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

Quoted from an interview for the television programme "The Thatcher Years - Part 2" on BBC1 The Thatcher Years 2 of 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEYPKLyug5c (13 october 1993) <br class="br">Post-Prime Ministerial

Business

“Claire - "Go ahead. And thanks. Oh, and be careful?"
Eve - "Please. I am the queen of careful. Also, princess of punk fabulousness.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Princess