Best goes-on & dies Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.”

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Author:Willa Cather

“Even though they (women) grow weary and wear themselves out with child-bearing, it does not matter; let them go on bearing children till they die, that is what they are there for.”

Children Doe Matter Dies Grows Goes On Weary

Author:Martin Luther

“You cannot be born and you cannot die. You will exist in a universe that goes on forever. That is the ultimate horror from the Zen point of view. You could be unhappy forever.”

Suffering Dies Universe Born Views Forever Goes On Horror Ultimate Point Of View Unhappy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.”

Men World Ends Dies Laughing Goes On Sight Amusement Amused Misanthropic

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.”

Writing Able Dies Goes On Function Obsession

Author:Farley Mowat

“Maybe you had to be dying to finally get to do what you wanted.I fidgeted around with the puzzle pieces for a while longer, but I wasn't lucky. Nothing seemed to fit without a whole lot of work.Then I had this thought: What if it was enough to realize that you would die someday, that none of this would go on forever? Would that be enough?”

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Book:Tell the Wolves I'm Home

Source: Tell the Wolves I'm Home

“Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot of burgeoning goes on.”

Dies Emotional Goes On Husband Fades New Life Widows Fade Away

Author:Fay Weldon

“Ah, my brother, it is a far harder thing, and it is afar higher proof of a thorough-going, persistent, Christian principle woven into the very texture of my soul, to go on plodding and patient, never taken by surprise by any small temptation, than to gather into myself the strength which God has given me, and, expecting some great storm to come down upon me, to stand fast, and let it rage. It is a great deal easier to die once for Christ than to live always for Him.”

“Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. But, once realise what the true object is in life that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)

“I have got this letter which actually goes out the day after I die. It has already been written. And it says that: "Yesterday I died". And then it says: "That's bad news for me, but it's not bad news for you, the shareholders of Berkshire". And then I go on and explain what is going to happen. I know that is one time when they will be really interested in hearing from me.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“When I look at small things, I think I shall go on living: drops of rain, leather gloves shrunk by being wet... When I look at something too big, I want to die: the Diet Building, or a map of the world.”

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Author:Kobo Abe

“Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.”

People Wells Dream Dies Goes On Stones Woods Legends Fragile Unreal

Book:Choke: A Novel

Source: Choke: A Novel

“In giving our daughter life, her father and I had also given her death, something I hadn't realized until that new creature flailed her arms in what was now infinite space. We had given her disease and speeding cars and flying cornices: once out of the fortress that had been myself, she would never be safe again ... We disappoint our kids and they disappoint us, and sometimes they grow up into people we don't like very much. We go on loving, though what we love may be more memory than actuality. And until the day we die we fear the phone that rings in the middle of the night.”

“Go on, now, go. Walk out the door. Just turn around now, 'cause you're not welcome anymore. Weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with 'goodbye?' Did you think I'd crumble? Did you think I'd lay down and die? I will survive.”

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Author:Gloria Gaynor

“Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.”

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Author:Albert Camus

“But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.”

God Dies Courses Goes On Concealed

Author:Socrates

“[I have] been in love with one princess or another almost all my life, and I hope I shall go on so, till I die, being firmly persuaded, that if ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another.”

Ifs Men Mean Has Beens Action Motivation Dies Passion Goes On Men And Women Princess Intervals Been In Love

Author:Laurence Sterne

“My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's basically a conservative view of life.”

Character Together Dies Views Goes On Survival Conservative Rage Scream Conservatism Back Together

Author:Jane Smiley

“It seems to me a purely lyric poet gives himself, right down to his sex, to his mood, utterly and abandonedly, whirls himself roundtill he spontaneously combusts into verse. He has nothing that goes on, no passion, only a few intense moods, separate like odd stars, and when each has burned away, he must die.”

Giving Seems Poetry Dies Passion Stars Sex Poet Goes On Mood Intense Odd Burned Verses

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“Sometimes ... we find that even when we do our best to serve the Lord, we still suffer. You may know someone who faces these most challenging of circumstances: consider the parent whose child becomes ill, for whom everyone prays and fasts with all their heart and soul, but who ultimately dies. Or the missionary who sacrifices to go on a mission, then develops a terrible illness that leaves him or her severely disabled or in chronic pain.”

“One good thing about music, when it hits-you feel no pain. ... My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. ... Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. ... My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.”

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Author:Bob Marley

“The intelligence of the mind can't think of any reason to live, but it goes on anyway because the intelligence of the cells can't think of any reason to die.”

Thinking Mind Reason Dies Goes On Cells Reason To Live

Book:LILA An Inquriry into Morals

Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals

“One goes on writing partly because it is the only available way of earning a living. It is a hard way and highly competitive. My heart drops into my bowels when I enter a bookshop and see how fierce the competition is...There is also a privier reason for pushing on, and that is the hopeless hope that someday that intractable enemy language will yield to the struggle to control it... Mastery never comes, and one serves a lifelong apprenticeship. The writer cannot retire from the battle; he dies fighting.”

“I believe in the human spirit. And usually the people who are following me - my fans and things like that - are like-minded people, in that regard. They like to hear about people being in pain, but that are okay, and people feeling like they can't go on, but then they find a reason to go on. How do you marry someone and love them, and then they die? How does that happen? Why are we on this journey? They want to talk about things, and they want to understand. So, this is the perfect vehicle for that.”

People Want Believe Humans Doe Reason Feelings Happens Pain Spirit Dies I Believe Perfect Journey Fans Goes On Okay And Love Regard Following I Believe In Vehicle Human Spirit

Author:J.H. Wyman

“Moths like me die by the thousands every minute. Her work goes on all the same. Glory unto Mother!”

Mother Dies Minutes Goes On Glory Like Me Moths

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“First time I got arrested, I knew somehow and some way, we would succeed. To go on the Freedom Ride to be beaten and left bloody and unconscious, to be beaten on that bridge in Selma, have a concussion - I thought that I was going to die on that bridge. But somehow and some way, I lived to tell about what happened, and I've seen some of the fruits of the labor of so many people, and people must understand that.”

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Author:John Lewis

“The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.”

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Author:Edward Kennedy

“I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.”

I Can Dies Stage Goes On Wicked Gigs Rotten Fright Stage Fright

Author:John Lydon

“I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.”

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Author:John Lydon

“So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.”

Ifs Mean Long Art Lasts Political Dies Politics Goes On Civilization Art Is Competition Productions Doomed Degradation Aggravation Life Goes On

Book:The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris

Source: The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris

“So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die.”

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Author:Rupert Murdoch

“We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.”

Thinking World Dies Goes On Kings Pope Life Goes On Expendables Life Going On

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.”

Source: Choke: A Novel

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