Gone Quotes

6226 Gone quotes by 3721 unique authors

Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning the horizon for the tiny ship.… — Audrey Niffenegger
What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance… — J.R.R. Tolkien
For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us... — Joseph Campbell
Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't. — Ayn Rand
They were gone and I missed them but even so I was very happy. For the rest of my life no matter where on this… — Russell Banks
I thought Marcus was going to be in my life forever. Then I thought I was wrong. Now he’s back. But this time I know… — Megan McCafferty
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning, but the… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside… — Jeanette Winterson
How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before… — John Milton
I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at… — Ernest Hemingway
Lady, I was gonna cut you some slack, 'cause you're a major mythological figure...but now you've just gone nuts! — Mike Mignola
Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you… — Jerry Spinelli
Goodbye don't mean gone. — Ray Charles
Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me… — Samuel Beckett
My heart broke all over again. I wanted my life back, my mama, but I knew I would never have that. The child I had… — Dorothy Allison
Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly… — Mark Twain
Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. — W S Merwin
I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I… — James A. Baldwin
She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of her own heart… — Henry James
Maybe I'd never see him again... maybe he'd gone for good... swallowed up, body and soul, in the kind of stories you hear about... Ah,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land. — Christina Rossetti
When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever… — Leslie Marmon Silko
When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up… — John Steinbeck
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes… — C.S. Lewis
Of course I’ve gone mad with power! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It’s boring and no one listens to you! — Russ… — Matt Groening

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