Gone Quotes

I don't trust anyone who hasn't been self-destructiv e in some way, and who hasn't gone through some sort of bout of self-loathing. You've got to bang yourself around a bit to know yourself.

The best artists are gone now.

Now the leaves are falling fast, Nurse's flowers will not last; Nurses to their graves are gone, And the prams go rolling on.

Wildlife is something which man cannot construct. Once it is gone, it is gone forever. Man can rebuild a pyramid, but he can't rebuild ecology, or a giraffe.

When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.

Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone.

In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.

You can do so much in ten minutes' time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.

Faith, Sir, we are here today and gone tomorrow.

I must have gone through $10 million during my career. Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way.

Nobody supported me; my family thought I had gone crazy. They thought, you crazy gangster, you crazy drug addict, now you want to be a writer? That's it! They totally gave up on me after that.

We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.

None of us can take anything with us when we're gone. It's what we leave that's gonna matter.

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

The past is gone, the future is not here, now I am free of both. Right now, I choose joy.

My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.

Heaven is always and forever around us and no soul remembered is ever really gone.

There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.

And yes, we do have some food. Maybe you'd like to join us? Unless you want to stick with your sheep sushi.

I've gone fishing thousands of times in my life, and I have never once felt unlucky or poorly paid for those hours on the water.

I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on Big Brother.

The persons you long for, who have gone to heaven before you, will be waiting for you when you die. They will be ready to comfort you and escort you to heaven.

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

The American experiment has come and gone. Whatever freedoms the people still might have as their own, are monitored and registered and taxed at virtually every turn.

I was very far away. My real life had gone underground and could not be seen by anybody. The person at the surface that everybody saw was no longer me.

George Jones may be gone but his music will live on forever. What a great voice and a great friend.

And that's the secret. Timing, hard work and smart partners. Using that formula, I've either founded or funded over 80 companies, and none have gone bankrupt. Most have done very well.

In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls.

Tell me where it is gone — then I will tell you where it came from.

Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.

Never look back on something bad, yesterday is gone, today is now, tomorrow doesn't exist.

Israel has gone mad. It's attacking, doing the same thing to the Palestinian and Lebanese people that they have criticised - and with reason - the Holocaust . But this is a new Holocaust.

When you’re in love, it’s not just about the messing around in the sack, it’s about how empty you feel when they’re gone.

You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.

We have lived through fear all our lives, and when you have gone through a whole lot of fear, sometimes all you can do is resist the fear, and resistance comes in the form of courage.

Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.

Type production has gone mad, with its senseless outpouring of new types... only in degenerate times can personality (opposed to the nameless masses) become the aim of human development.

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

Like vanishing dew, a passing apparition or the sudden flash of lightning -- already gone -- thus should one regard one's self.

But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can now sink so low that God has not gone lower.

I'm as wicked as Hitler's first born, cause of me, lot of old ladies purses gone.

The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.