Quotes about keep
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“Don't die. Don't die! You don't have to win. You don't have to keep trying! Just don't get hurt anymore, please!”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Hurt

“Keep on rockin' in the free world.”

Neil Young (1945) Canadian singer-songwriter

World

“… "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.”

Tracy Kidder (1945) writer

Source: Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness

“I'm investigating people who sacrifice trained killers to dark gods.
Perfect, it will keep him occupied.
In what capacity?
Bait.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

God, People, Perfection, Training

“The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye

Problem, Evil

“Keep a demon busy, I thought. Right. Maybe he fancies a game of Tiddlywinks.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Game, Business

“To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart.”

Brandon Sanderson Elantris

Source: Elantris

Heart, Personality

“In a typical mental health catch-22, the alienating nature of depression tends to keep its sufferers from finding their way to the very support groups that might help them.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

Source: Prozac Nation

Health, Way, Support, Nature

“I am charging you with the protection of my mother and friends, not to mention keeping my younger self off the Internet. He is as dangerous as Opal.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Time Paradox

“That's the difference between family and friends. Family is always there, no matter what, even when it's not right next door. Which means that you'll find a way to keep the connection alive. Especially since you realize how important it is.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

Family, Way

“Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Thinking, Sense, Chance

“If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Love

“You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

Life, People, Time

“Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: All These Things I've Done

Life, Girl

“You forget who submits, Eva,” he said gruffly. “I’ve given up control for you. I’ve bent and adjusted for you. I’ll do anything to keep you and make you happy. But I can’t be tamed or topped. Don’t mistake indulgence for weakness.”

Sylvia Day book Bared to You

Source: Bared to You

Forgetting, Happiness

“I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because a story is a tight rope between two worlds.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: The Powerbook

People, World, Time

“being physically intimidating didn't keep you from getting your feelings hurt. Everyone's heart is the same size.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Hit List

Source: Hit List

Feeling, Heart, Hurt

“You are not required to start over, but you are required to keep going.”

Gwen Bristow (1903–1980) American author and journalist

“Guys don't let other guys keep calling other guys. Okay that came out wrong.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Guy

“Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

People

“Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.”

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

Courage, Evil

“Bite your lips, little brother… Don't cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now… Wait. Clench your teeth and wait…”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

Hate, Waiting, Cry, Anger

“Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Way, Feeling, Personality

“Let the people who never find true love
keep saying that there's no such thing.

Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.”

Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer

Source: View With a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

Love, People, Faith

“It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.”

Sam Harris Letter to a Christian Nation

Source: Letter to a Christian Nation

People, Faith, Time

“I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive. Books are the best and worst defense.”

Sherman Alexie book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Source: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Books, Sleep

“What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?”

Bret Easton Ellis book Imperial Bedrooms

Source: Imperial Bedrooms

Reality

“Promise me no promises,
So will I not promise you:
Keep we both our liberties,
Never false and never true:
Let us hold the die uncast,
Free to come as free to go:
For I cannot know your past,
And of mine what can you know?”

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet

Past, Falseness

“Close, close all night
the lovers keep.
They turn together
in their sleep,

Close as two pages
in a book
that read each other
in the dark.

Each knows all
the other knows,
learned by heart
from head to toes.”

Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) American poet

Source: Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments

Books, Lovers, Sleep, Learning

“If we want to keep the blessings of life coming to us, we must learn to be grateful for whatever is given.”

Harold Klemp (1942) American writer

Source: The Language of Soul: Keys to Living a More Meaningful Life

Life, Learning

“You're so easy to tease. And yes, your friend is just fine. Well, except that he keeps putting all my things away and trying to clean up. Now I can't find anything. He's compulsive.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another.”

Charlie Kaufman (1958) American screenwriter

Life, Death, Way, Loss

“Keep it, keep it!" I answered. "You are very welcome to it! It is only a couple of small things, doesn't amount to anything—about everything I own in the world.”

Knut Hamsun book Hunger

Source: Hunger

World

“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Variant: Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It's what the sunflowers do.

Hope, Sun

“I'll never get laid trying to keep you safe. You're a train wreck on steroids.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Iced

Training

“In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Heart

“Because it's simple, I love you, and I don't want to keep pretending like I don't. -Rose to Dimitri”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

Love

“It was so easy to disown what you couldn’t recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

“They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.”

Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) English humorist

Dogs, Appearance

“The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff… and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean your mind has a mind of its own? And if it does, then who's in charge here, anyway?”

Jane Yolen book Armageddon Summer

Source: Armageddon Summer

“By taking risks. By risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in your search for Love, as long as you keep looking, you will triumph in the end.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

Love, Disappointment, Search, Failure

“Give me love, give me peace on earth,
Give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth,
Give me hope, help me cope, with this heavy load,
Trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul.”

George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles

Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) (1973)
Lyrics

Love, Life, Peace, Hope

“Didn't I promise I'd always look after you and keep you from harm?”

Alyson Nöel book Shadowland

Source: Shadowland

“But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: The Time of My Life

Life, Decision, Time

“There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

Source: The Odyssey

For Wife, People, Housing

“Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle”

Gregory Maguire book Son of a Witch

Source: Son of a Witch

Memory, Heart, Parting

“Damn it, MacRieve, if you keep calling me kitten, then I'm going to start calling you something equivalent, like hound dog - and then we'll both be losers.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night

Dogs

“O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.”

John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

God

“The problem about the future is that it keeps turning into the present.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Problem, Future

“I think that we vote, not to get the best party in, but to keep the worst party out.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

Thinking

“If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.”

Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner

People

“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

Life, World, Thinking

“Rule number four for me as a writer? Plotlines are like sharks: They either keep moving or they die. ~J. R. Ward”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide

“The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point.”

Nick Hornby About a Boy

Source: About a Boy

“You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men

“I don't believe in fate," she said at last. "But I do believe in… loopholes. I think a lot of what keeps the world going is the result of accidents — happy or otherwise — and taking advantage of these.”

Robin McKinley book Sunshine

Source: Sunshine

Fate, World, Thinking, Happiness

“She felt as if the world were tilting and she was clinging on helplessly, trying to keep from tumbling into a black abyss.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

World

“Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

Anger, Night

“Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Truth

“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

“One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: Stay

“I was yours once 'till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now - I can't hang about whining forever - and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness?”

E.M. Forster book Maurice

Source: Maurice

Death, Way, Happiness

“Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and mentally defective that you will marry anybody.”

Florence King (1936–2016) American writer

Source: Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

“I want to be that person for him, I want to be the one who keeps him going during this difficult time.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Time, Personality

“You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

People, Heart

“He who becomes a Prince through the favour of the people should always keep on good terms with them; which it is easy for him to do, since all they ask is not to be oppressed”

Niccolo Machiavelli book The Prince

Source: The Prince

People

“Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them.”

Jeff Lindsay book Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

People, Stupidity

“It's a f*** you world. Well, keep it going anyhow, what the hell.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

World, Hell

“He took her face in his bloody hands. "I’ll come and find you wherever you are. I’ll not stop breathing until I do. So you’re going to have to promise me that you won’t lose hope. That you will keep yourself alive.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

Hope

“The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.”

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

Love, Sense, Suffering, Madness

“We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.”

Thomas Bernhard book Extinction

Source: Extinction

Death, People

“Miracles happen quietly every day - in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven

Appearance, Sea

“I know that sometimes the things we carry become too much for us. We are burned down, but somehow we have to pick ourselves up and keep going”

Paullina Simons book The Summer Garden

Source: The Summer Garden

“… The type of loneliness where you need to keep struggling to accept a situation is fundamentally different than the sort you know you'll get through if you just hang in there”

Ryū Murakami book In the Miso Soup

Source: In the Miso Soup

Loneliness

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep”

Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

General sources Source: "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (1923) http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171621 Context: The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

Deep, Good Night, Love

“Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.”

Harvey Mackay (1932) American businessman and journalist

Time

“Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if that's their purpose, they can keep their paltry icons. We need only look up if we wish to feel small.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

Source: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)

God, Religion, Feeling, Idea

“Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

Hope, Disappointment, Imagination, Thinking

“I keep what's mine, and I do not share.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Seven Years to Sin

“Yeah, well, he’s still on Dark-Hunter payroll, so tell him to keep his phone turned on. (Talon)
Ooo. Getting testy in your fierce nakedness. (Kyrian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Night Embrace

Source: Night Embrace

“If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest”

Daniel Webster (1782–1852) Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852. Served as the Secretary of Sta…

Communication

“You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't a true love.. the love that speaks the language of the world.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Love, World, Understanding, Personality

“In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Harlequin

Source: The Harlequin

“When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself”

Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997) French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and …

Life

“The wand ricocheted through the swarm, thumping six, seven, eight of the little monsters before returning to Carter’s hand.
“Not bad,” I said. “Keep it up!”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

“What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Source: Henry & June

Happiness

“Illusion is sometimes all that keeps us sane." - Anita”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Killing Dance

Source: The Killing Dance

“If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

Life

“And I flunked anger management the moment I put the counselor through a stone wall. You might want to keep that in mind.
[Thorn]”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Bad Moon Rising

Anger

“Werewolf games," Mercy said solemnly, "play for keeps, or go home." She was so cute sometimes it made Adam's heart hurt.”

Patricia Briggs book Frost Burned

Source: Frost Burned

Home, Game, Heart, Hurt

“Because you can't keep up the illusion forever," I say. "No one has that much magic.”

Libba Bray book Rebel Angels

Source: Rebel Angels

“Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the colour in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty, and your animal spirits, and you will pass for a fine man.”

William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer

"On The Conduct of Life" (1822)

Health, Beauty, Animals, Personality

“Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Walden (1854)
Context: A living dog is better than a dead lion. Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can? Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made. Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.<!--pp.366-367

Music

“Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.”

Colin Powell (1937) Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general

Appearance

“Keep this and perhaps remember me."
Kieran's hands tightened on the arrowhead, his knuckles whitening. "The stars will go out before I forget you, Mark Blackthorn.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Star, Forgetting

“this song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called 'we hate you, please die.”

Bryan Lee O'Malley (1979) Artist

Source: Scott Pilgrim, Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life

Hate, Guy

“It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.”

Rob Sheffield (1966) American music journalist

Source: Love Is a Mix Tape

People

“Everyone is indeed crazy but the craziest are those who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

“Good writers are those who keep the language efficient.”

Ezra Pound book ABC of Reading

Source: ABC of Reading (1934), Chapter 3
Context: Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

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