Goes On Quotes - Page 13

• I am inviting you to go deeper, to learn and to practice so that you become someone who has a great capacity for being solid, calm, and without fear, because our society needs people like you who have these qualities, and your children, our children, need people like you, in order to go on, in order to become solid, and calm, and without fear.

  Nhat Hanh

  Children, Order, Practice

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• "When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?"

  Alice Sebold

  Done, Bones, Said

  "The Lovely Bones". Book by Alice Sebold, 2002.

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• Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.

  Anne Carson

  Writing, Sadness, Night

  Anne Carson (2015). “Plainwater: Essays and Poetry”, p.35, Vintage

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• The scream of the twelve-inch shrapnel is more penetrating than the hiss from a thousand Jewish newspaper vipers. Therefore let them go on with their hissing.

  Adolf Hitler

  Twelve, Vipers, Scream

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.250, eKitap Projesi

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• Oh,to be walking through Leningrad white night after white night, the dawn to dusk all smelting together like platinum ore, Tatiana thought, turning away to the wall, again to the wall, the wall, as ever. Alexander, my nights, my days, my every thought. You will fall away from me in just a while, won't you, and I'll be whole again, and I will go on and feel for someone else, the way everyone does. But my innocence is forever gone.

  Paullina Simons

  Wall, Fall, Night

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• If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what a mercy it is that once in every twenty-four hours we are too utterly weary to go on being unkind.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Hurt, Angel, Twenties

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Solitary Summer”, p.28, Elizabeth von Arnim

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• Awareness There is a dark place. A place where I have no eyes, no mouth. No words. I can't cry out because I have no breath. The silence is so deep I want to die. But I can't. The darkness and silence go on forever. It is not a dream. I don't dream.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Dream, Eye, Dark

  Mary E. Pearson (2012). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox: Chapters 1-5”, p.6, Macmillan

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• The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Vacation, Average

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.4, Faber & Faber

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• Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead

  Terry Pratchett

  Stories, Want, Ends

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents: (Discworld Novel 28)”, p.289, Random House

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• Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  People, Foundation, Stories

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2006). “Gifts”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You're spending your life without renewing it. You've got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You're spending your vitality without making any. Can't go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Vitality, Spending, Amused

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3754, Delphi Classics

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• In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

  Tracy Kidder

  Order, Strange, Ominous

  Tracy Kidder (2009). “Strength in What Remains”, p.111, Random House

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• He turned his dark eyes on the girl whom he had dreamed of so often over the previous months. Beside him, at that very moment of existence, at the heart of torrential downpour, she was exquisitely real, and she, too, seemed content to go on sitting there forever.

  Anna Godbersen

  Girl, Real, Heart

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• I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Beautiful, Buddhism, Thinking

  Chronicles of Clovis (1911) "The Match-Maker"

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• THIRD WATCHER Let her speak. Don't interrupt. She knows words that mermaids taught her...I'm falling asleep in order to hear her...Go on, sister, go on...My heart aches because I wasn't you when you dreamed at the seashore.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Fall, Heart, Order

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.54, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and even necessary, that we should go on and on from one technological innovation to the next, which would cause the economy to "grow" and make everything better and better. This of course implied at every point a hatred of the past, of all things inherited and free. All things superceded in our progress of innovations, whatever their value might have been, were discounted as of no value at all.

  Wendell Berry

  Past, Hatred, Innovation

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• Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.Life just has to go on!

  Rick Warren

  Inspirational, Life, Guidance

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• So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.

  Clarice Lispector

  Writing, Long, Answers

  Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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• You guys just wait and see. We'll stand taller than these mountains. We'll bare open our hearts for the world to grab. We'll see lights where there was dimness. We'll testify together to what we have seen and felt. Life will go on--all of us--crawling; stumbling, falling perhaps. But we will be the strong ones. Our hearts will shine brightly.

  Douglas Coupland

  Strong, Fall, Heart

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• But I'm not ready to stop listening to the screwed-up inner voice that's been ordering me around for a lifetime. My head thinks it can kill me... and go on living without me.

  Mary Karr

  Thinking, Voice, Listening

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• Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: 'OK, OK, let's go on to something else.' Objections have never contributed anything.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Want, Objections

  Gilles Deleuze, Claire Parnet (2007). “Dialogues II”, p.1, Columbia University Press

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• Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

  Nikolai Gogol

  Perfect, World, Sometimes

  Nikolai Gogol (2011). “The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.323, Vintage

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• No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Girl, Remember, Happens

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.181, Penguin

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• Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Men, Offending, Way

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• You will find yourself among people. There is no help for this nor should you want it otherwise. The passages where no one waits are dark and hard to navigate. The wet walls touch your shoulders on each side. When the trees were there I cared that they were there. And now they are gone, does it matter? The passages where no one waits go on and give no promise of an end. You will find yourself among people, Faces, clothing, teeth and hair and words, and many words When there was life, I said that life was wrong. What do I say now? You understand?

  Paul Bowles

  Wall, Dark, Hair

  Paul Bowles (1994). “The Portable Paul and Jane Bowles”, Penguin Group USA

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