Going Quotes (page 642)

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• good
• personal
• dad

Dad," said Will, his voice very faint. "Are you a good person?"To you and your mother, yes, I try. But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime, Will. I know everything worth knowing about myself-"And, adding it all up...?"The sum? As they come and go, and I mostly sit very still and tight, yes, I'm all right. Ray Bradbury

• thy
• go
• yourself

Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place. Richard Bach

• great
• fitness
• equality

He surveyed the edifice from the outside, and admired it greatly; he looked in at the windows, and received an impression of proportions equally fair. But he felt that he saw it only by glimpses, and that he had not yet stood under the roof. The door was fastened, and although he had keys in his pocket he had a conviction that none of them would fit. She was intelligent and generous; it was a fine free nature, but what was she going to do with herself? Henry James

• time
• happy
• difficult

I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present. Pat Conroy

• death
• drinking
• old

Death is like an old whore in a bar--I'll buy her a drink but I won't go upstairs with her Ernest Hemingway

• friends
• friend
• my friend

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there. Oscar Wilde

• love
• thinking
• truthfulness

I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely. R. Buckminster Fuller

• love
• learning
• come

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it. Rainer Maria Rilke

• gone
• seems
• got

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone. Joni Mitchell

• fitness
• accounting
• willed

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go. Agatha Christie

• painting
• memorial
• memories

I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles? I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that? I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life? This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours Jack Kerouac

• school
• wonder
• wonderful

Do you know how to pick a lock?"Not in the least, I'm afraid."I often wonder what we go to school for," said Wimsey. Dorothy L. Sayers

• should i
• returns
• tedious

I am in blood. Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er. William Shakespeare

• real
• experience
• insanity

To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane. Charles Bukowski

• hope
• dream
• life

She told herself that she longed greatly to go back to those dear merry days when life was seen through a rosy mist of hope and illusion, and possessed an indefinable something that had passed away forever. Where was it now--the glory and the dream? L. M. Montgomery