Gone Quotes

6226 Gone quotes by 3721 unique authors

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. — Oscar Wilde
A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables. — Norton Juster
I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had… — Samuel Beckett
I feel it gone, yet know not when it left. — William Shakespeare
Across the moment, aeons speak with aeons. More than we experienced has gone by. — Rainer Maria Rilke
I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life. — Maya Angelou
One has so many more opinions about what has gone wrong than about what is perfect. — Nick Hornby
The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a different truth: the… — Shelby Foote
I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I’m a puppy unleashed in a meadow of… — Jerry Spinelli
Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence. For a… — Nicole Krauss
The whole family is a bunch of dangerous freaks...Most are ex-cons or junkies or deranged from inbreeding. Five have died violently, three are back in… — Tim Dorsey
Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that… — Charles de Lint
It is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. For every one of us, living in this world means waiting for… — Seamus Heaney
Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and… — William Butler Yeats
Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you… — Flannery O'Connor
The human race is the most stupid and unfair kind of race. A lot of the runners don't even get decent sneakers or clean drinking… — Banksy
When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence,… — John Steinbeck
If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other… — Jodi Picoult
Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone. — Matsuo Basho
When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long… — John Irving
The body is a fortuitous concourse of atoms. There is no death for the body, only an exchange of atoms. Their changing places and taking… — U.G. Krishnamurti
Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother's for you… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Then Nuvoletta reflected for the last time in her little long life and she made up all her myriads of drifting minds in one. She… — James Joyce
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild… — Wallace Stegner

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