Gone Quotes - Page 30

• Sahaja samadhi means that you have just gone back and forth so many times that there is no back and forth. All you see is enlightenment in this world and the other side. There is no other side anymore. It means that you are wakeful.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Enlightenment, World

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• I don't like my hair when it's washed - it's fine and limp - but Coca-Cola makes it tousled, like I've gone through the Amazon or something.

  Suki Waterhouse

  Hair, Amazon, Coca Cola

  "Suki Waterhouse Rinses Her Hair With Coca-Cola: Find Out Why!" by Candace Amos and Brody Brown, www.usmagazine.com. March 20, 2015.

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• To retrieve the past is no great effort, when the events to be recalled are so firmly imprinted on the mind. It is existence in the present, the bleak wreckage and residue of what has gone before, that is so burdensome.

  K. W. Jeter

  Past, Effort, Mind

  K W Jeter (2011). “Infernal Devices”, p.49, Duncan Baird Publishers

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• You don't see the European classical musicians allowing the music of Bach, Brahms, or Beethoven to become extinct. That music has gone on for centuries and centuries. We have the same obligation. Why do we have to become so 'hip' that we can say, 'Bebop is square,' or "New Orleans is square'? This, to me, is a shame.

  Rahsaan Roland Kirk

  Squares, New Orleans, Hips

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• Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.

  George Eliot

  Horse, Doors, Sunny Afternoon

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.431

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• I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think what'll come f it after he's dead and gone.

  George Eliot

  Courage, Men, Thinking

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.329, Wordsworth Editions

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• The end always passes judgement on what has gone before.

  Publilius Syrus

  Judgement, Ends

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• We age inevitably:
  The old joys fade and are gone:
  And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.

  James Oppenheim

  Flames, Joy, Age

  James Oppenheim (1916). “War and Laughter”

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• The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Past, Men, History

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• Knowing that others have gone through similar tragedies may be a help, but it should be remembered that every tragedy is not only commonplace but also unique.

  Judith Martin

  Unique, Knowing, Tragedy

  Judith Martin (1996). “Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility”, Crown

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• But still when the mists of doubt prevail,
  And we lie becalmed by the shores of age,
  We hear from the misty troubled shore
  The voce of children gone before.
  Drawing the soul to its anchorage.

  Bret Harte

  Children, Lying, Drawing

  Bret Harte (2016). “Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist”, p.193, VM eBooks

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• T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Prayer, Heart, Dark

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• A blossom full of promise is life's joy,
  That never comes to fruit. Hope, for a time,
  Suns the young floweret in its gladsome light,
  And it looks flourishing--a little while--
  'T is pass'd, we know not whither, but 't is gone.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Light, Joy, Promise

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• Too many comics today ramble. By the time they get to the punch line, the audience has either gone to sleep, gone to the bathroom or gone to bed.

  Phyllis Diller

  Sleep, Bed, Lines

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• Nirvikalpa Samadhi means that you've gone off the board; you've gone off the map. There is no way to describe it. You have attained liberation and are no longer bound by the cycle of existence. You just are, and yet you're not, at the same time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Boards, Maps

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• There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.

  Virginia Woolf

  Passion, Writing, Letters

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The letters of Virginia Woolf”

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• Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone. ... Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a small child. If yesterday why not today?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Death, Children, Yesterday

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• At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Past, History, Perfect

  Thomas Carlyle, Oliver Cromwell, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hero, Successful, Reign

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• Some women don't care how their quilts look. They piece the squares together any sort of way, but she couldn't stand careless sewing. She wanted her quilts, and Joy's, made right. Quilts stay a long time after people are gone from this world, and witness about them for good or bad. She wanted people to see, when she was gone, that she'd never been a shiftless or don't-care woman.

  Julia Peterkin

  Quilts, Squares, Long

  Julia Mood Peterkin (1927). “Black April: A Novel”, p.128, University of Georgia Press

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• It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.

  Juvenal

  Passages, Folly, Sheer

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• When we mourn our parents, we mourn the parents we had as well as the ones we never had. With death, all bets are off: the last chance at reconciliation or change or hope is gone. Whatever relationship we had with our parents, that's it. No more chances for something else.

  Joan M. Drury

  Parent, Lasts, Chance

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• Today is today, and yesterday is gone. There is no doubt.

  Pablo Neruda

  Yesterday, Doubt, Today

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• It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.

  John Heywood

  Horse, Doors, Barns

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• We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Heart, Imagination, Wish

  Walter Savage Landor (1836). “Pericles and Aspasia”, p.225

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