Gone Quotes

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.

In the ten years since I had run away from home...I had gone through more strange experiences than the average person crowds into a whole lifetime.

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.

Every banker knows that if he has to prove that he is worthy of credit, however good may be his arguments, in fact his credit is gone: but what we have requires no proof.

No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.

There is a mythic view of the South that's symbolized by the film "Gone With The Wind" that looks back fondly at slavery as a time when everything was happily in place - in place for whites.

When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again.

I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.

It's really hard to find materials. Also, prices of metal have gone completely through the roof, insanely expensive. And if you go to a dictionary and look up starving artist, you'll see my picture.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

When hope is gone, time is punishment.

The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.

The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.

We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.

Our self-trust is such a subtle thing that it still comes around whispering to us even after we are sure it is gone.

Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.

Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch... the private life is just gone.

You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, "I'm a writer," it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.

I loved the way the burned-out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be gone forever except for a picture.

The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss--you have gone and lost something else.

When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.

The leader who refuses to move until the fear is gone will never move. Consequently, he will never lead.

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

I suppose I am proud of what has gone on, after all I only ever wanted to play the guitar for a living, and that is what I am still doing.

It's amazing how I'm able to ride around on a bike. People kind of see it's me but since I'm on a bike, they think, "No, it's not her." And by the time they realize it's me, I'm already gone.

Maybe this won't last very long but you feel so right and I could be wrong. Maybe I've been hoping too hard. I've gone this far and it's more than I hope for.

Tyranny of freedom is do what you like. There's a world gone crazy, cause it can't say no.

I don't care who you are or what you have gone through - everyone has something they are fighting for.

Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.

Tessa is gone, and every moment she is gone is a knife ripping me apart from the inside.

The years have gone by quickly. Death sits in the seat next to me. We make a lovely couple.

Anybody who's gone through puberty has understood what it feels like to be an outcast and alone.

There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn't be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.

My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.

Of course a magazine is usually more interesting than a conversation, because so much more time and preparation has gone into it.

Value everyone you know they might be gone tomorrow

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people try their hand at this demanding profession (humor columnist). After a few months, almost all of them have given up and gone back to the ninth grade.

Gone is the blinding glow in his hands - gone, too, is the illusion of purity and beauty! In it's place all that remains is mind-numbing, spine-chilling reality!

Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. Ours is a lifetime appoinment, and all you have is your reputation. Once it's gone, it doesn't comeback.

I have gone from “being” my experience to being infinite consciousness having the experience and observing the experience.

Newt Gingrich's campaign is broke. All the money gone. So now he's charging $50 for a photo. And for $100 you can marry him.

A circus here, a circus there; here today, gone tomorrow. Big Brother watching you. Fear eats the soul.

Why don't I watch the ocean?My lover's gone.No earthly ships will ever bring him home againbring him home again.

Men hand out cigars. Women 'hand out' babies. And thus the world, for thousands of years, has gone round.

I have gone to all over the country and I've met so many veterans and I have tremendous veteran support.

Hillary Clinton should have been prosecuted and gone to jail.

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction.

A person is not really gone until everyone who knew them is gone.

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

Emmitt Smith is in a position, in my opinion, where he should be the highest-paid running back in football. He's a guy who has gone out and led the league in rushing and been productive.