Goes On Quotes - Page 12

• 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

  Writing, Dare, Dies

  Pablo Neruda (2009). “The Captain's Verses/Los Versos Del Capitan”, p.107, New Directions Publishing

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• I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

  Voltaire

  Stupid, Heart, Love Life

  Voltaire (1956). “Candide: or, Optimism”

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• Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Angel, Player, Discipline

  Jorge Luis Borges (1962). “Ficciones”, p.34, Grove Press

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• I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words--changing nothing.

  John Gardner

  Whispering, World, Conscious

  John Gardner (2010). “Grendel”, p.49, Vintage

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• Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Silence, Attention

  Jack Kerouac (1960). “The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: Pocket Poets Number 51”, p.57, City Lights Books

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• So he started to climb out of the hole. He pulled with his front paws, and pushed with his back paws, and in a little while his nose was in the open again ... and then his ears ... and then his front paws ... and then his shoulders ... and then-'Oh, help!' said Pooh, 'I'd better go back,' 'Oh bother!' said Pooh, 'I shall have to go on.' 'I can't do either!' said Pooh, 'Oh help and bother!

  A. A. Milne

  Noses, Ears, Littles

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• Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Break Up, Breakup, Believe

  "Dear John". Book by, August 7, 2007.

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• For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the very events we witness about us, each and every day.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Play, Events, May

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.60, Macmillan

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• No human being can go on living in the same house with a pigeon, a pigeon is the epitomy of chaos and anarchy, a pigeon that whizzes around unpredictably, that sets it's claws in you, picks at your eyes.

  Patrick Süskind

  Eye, House, Anarchy

  Patrick Süskind (2015). “The Pigeon”, p.11, Penguin UK

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• We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of mist; the false, the one we love when we live with others, the practical, the useful, the one we end up by being put in a coffin.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Two, Childhood

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• I thought you were supposed to be the champion of your people,' I said. I live because I need to do that. For anyone who is left.' Don't you see? No one will be left. Protect them now or there will be no one to protect!' This is a battle that goes on and on. It never ends. You're too young to understand. No! You're too much of a coward to fight.' I was sick of lies and secrets and of battles so old we had to erase who we were to fight back. And still we lost. Still we were tied to posts.

  Alice Hoffman

  Lying, Fighting, People

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• I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

  George Eliot

  Music, Thinking, Ideas

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.822, Delphi Classics

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• there are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike.' - Morrie Schwartz

  Mitch Albom

  Love And Marriage, Common, Compromise

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• What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. Everything is gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

  Michael Cunningham

  Thinking, Two, People

  "Fictional character: Virginia Woolf". "The Hours", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.

  Adrienne Rich

  Vision, Claims, Knows

  Adrienne Rich (2013). “The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company

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• All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Men, Want

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• This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse -- appropriate because it recognizes the qualities, the diversities, and the proper relationships of human utterances. As civilized human beings, we are the inheritors, neither of an inquiry about ourselves and the world, nor of an accumulating body of information, but of a conversation, begun in the primeval forests and extended and made more articulate in the course of centuries. It is a conversation which goes on both in public and within each of ourselves.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Believe, Diversity, Quality

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• I could tell her from personal experience that when people we love make choices we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness. But all this took me a lifetime to discover, and where has it gotten me?... Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

  Jodi Picoult

  Loving Life, People, Choices

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know. If someone were to ask me today whether the story of Hassan, Sohrab, and me ends with happiness, I wouldn't know what to say. Does anybody's? After all, life is not a Hindi movie. Zendagi migzara, Afghans like to say: Life goes on, undmindful of beginning, en, kamyab, nah-kam, crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Moving, Catharsis, Doe

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.162, A&C Black

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• Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the letters on the page tell us only as much as we'd see peering through a keyhole. Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Doe, Stories

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• If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.

  Daniel Webster

  Bible, Country, Men

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• Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner.

  Jodi Picoult

  Garbage Cans, Details, Dinner

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• All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will be different, but worse. We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.

  Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

  Thinking, Sheep, Two

  Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (2010). “The Leopard: Revised and with new material”, p.143, Random House

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• My hand is very tired but I want to go on writing. I keep resting and thinking. All day I have been two people - the me imprisoned in yesterday and the me out here on the mound; and now there is a third me trying to get in - the me in what is going to happen next.

  Dodie Smith

  Writing, Tired, Thinking

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.153, Random House

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• The window was still open.” Mr Lisbon said. “I don’t think we’d ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I knew I had to close it or else she’d go on jumping out of it forever

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Suicide, Self Harm, Thinking

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.58, Macmillan

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