Top 100 Is Gone Quotes
#1. Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.
Mark Twain
#2. The play's over, the house lights are up, the audience is gone, but I'm still on the damned stage.
Gregory Miller
#3. Now that all the beauty of my old life is gone, I crave it like good. A beautiful thing like this rose: I almost want to eat it, to swallow it whole to replace the beauty I've lost.
Alex Flinn
#4. In boxing, you get hit, it's painful, then you sit on the stool when the adrenaline is gone and you feel that pain. And then you fight the next round.
Ben Horowitz
#5. The instant is gone, time has carried us into the realm of memory, it was like this, no, it was not, and everything becomes what we choose to invent.
Jose Saramago
#6. The past is gone. It went by like dusk to dawn.
Steven Tyler
#7. The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
#8. Only the present exists. The past is gone, and the future has not yet happened. There is only ever time present.
Fennel Hudson
#9. Jackson is gone - not entirely gone; Jackson was there today watching, and Ewell sees his eyes - but you cannot blame him for not being Jackson. You must make do with the tools God has given for the job.
Michael Shaara
#10. It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs have just been tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labour of the day is gone
Leigh Hunt
#11. When resistance is gone, the demons are gone.
Pema Chodron
#12. Necessity is what impels men to take action, and once necessity is gone, only rot and decay are left
Niccolo Machiavelli
#13. If you wait for your natural soul mate to meet with you, it will be just like waiting for lightning with which to read your Bible. And you will not be able to read much either. For a moment it is there, and by the time you have opened the Bible it is gone.
Rajneesh
#14. Love will not be constrain'd by mastery.
When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon
Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone.
Love is a thing as any spirit free.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#15. There's no question that the Republic has done some horrible things to us all, that they might still be doing those things. But ... maybe I've also been seeing the things I want to see. Maybe now that the old elector is gone, the Republic's soldiers have started to shed their masks too.
Marie Lu
#16. I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me And is gone.
Rabindranath Tagore
#17. I'm not the kind of guy who rides the same roller-coaster twice. Once is enough,and then the thrill is gone and so is the interest.
Emma Chase
#18. The world I grew up in is gone, too," I said quietly. "But that doesn't mean I'm going to give up on it. Because if you give up - then what is there left to live for?
Danielle Paige
#19. And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.
Madeline Miller
#20. I don't need the bowls to give me peace anymore," Ian said. "I have you. And Jamie, and Belle. If all the Ming bowls in the world were smashed, I'd still have you." [ ... ]
"You broke the bowl, and it is gone. But you are here, and whole. Nothing else matters.
Jennifer Ashley
#21. A piece of me is gone," she told me once while we were bra shopping. "I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.
Melina Marchetta
#22. I'm one of those who cut off seeing people after a certain time, when the weight is gone and they sound like the dementia is very advanced - I don't want to see that. I don't even go in to look at the body. That's not my last memory.
Bill Cosby
#23. It's as if you've been walking against a great wind all your life, and then the wind is gone, and you can't walk.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#24. You ain't scared I'll kill you?
You already did. At the dark park. The suspense is gone.
Dia Reeves
#25. Maybe anything that anybody ever has is for now. What happened before is gone, and what will happen later is an illusion.
Tom Upton
#26. Just a sort of unexplained sadness that comes each afternoon when the new day is gone forever and there's nothing ahead but increasing darkness.
Robert M. Pirsig
#27. Our self-trust is such a subtle thing that it still comes around whispering to us even after we are sure it is gone.
A.W. Tozer
#28. I can't stop thinking about her. Nothing specific, nothing I can visualize or recall. It's just pain and emptiness. Darkness. The light, the bright light, is gone.
Kim Holden
#29. Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
William Hazlitt
#30. The moon is bleached as white as wool,
And just dropping under;
Every star is gone but three,
And they hang far asunder,
There's a sea-ghost all in gray,
A tall shape of wonder!
Jean Ingelow
#32. She will blaze through you like a gypsy wildfire. Igniting you soul and dancing in its flames. And when she is gone, the smell of her smoke will be the only thing left to soothe you.
Nicole Lyons
#33. Somebody who should have been born
is gone.
Yes, woman, such logic will lead
to loss without death. Or say what you meant,
you coward ... this baby that I bleed.
Anne Sexton
#35. As for man, his days are like grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field; the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.
Anonymous
#36. Because I feel as if I let it down. As if it needed something from me, I was its only hope, and now that hope is gone.'
'What penis doesn't try to make you feel that way?
R.J. Silver
#37. All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part of them.
Daphne Du Maurier
#38. I remember the old Times Square from when I was younger, and there was a seedy thrill to it. Some of that is gone, which I have a little bit of nostalgia for.
Janeane Garofalo
#39. My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.
Sarah Zettel
#40. Seems like the cold would never go away and winter would be like the bottom of my feet but then it is gone in one night and in its place comes the sun so large and laughable.
Sherman Alexie
#41. If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place.
U.G. Krishnamurti
#42. The past is gone. The future never arrives. In truth, there is no life outside of this moment!
Leonard Jacobson
#43. Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone.
Isabel Allende
#44. Look to your khal and see what life is worth, when all the rest is gone.
George R R Martin
#45. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
Edmund Burke
#46. Alexander, my nights, my days, my every thought. You will fall away from me in just a while, won't you, and I'll be whole again, and I will go on and feel for someone else, the way everybody does.
But my innocence is gone forever.
Paullina Simons
#47. Without the interplay of human against human, the chief interest in life is gone; most of the intellectual values are gone; most of the reason for living is gone.
Isaac Asimov
#48. I have this system. I torture my husband and everyone around me with my nerves and anxiety. Then, when I get on stage, the fear is gone. I've exhausted myself. It just dissipates.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
#49. Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise ...
Paramahansa Yogananda
#50. There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
Duke Ellington
#51. Were I still the man Eo knew, I would have stood frozen in horror. But that man is gone. I mourn his passing every day. Forgetting more and more of who I was, what dreams I held, what things I loved. The sadness now is numb. And I carry on despite the shadow it casts over me. The
Pierce Brown
#52. Anything said is gone as soon as it leaves my lips. Things written down at least have a chance to leave a soft echo of what had been.
Chris Dietzel
#53. It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.
Lynn Johnston
#54. Good Luck is a giddy maid,
Fickle and restless as a fawn;
She smooths your hair; and then the jade
Kisses you quickly, and is gone.
Heinrich Heine
#55. The stigma of movie actors doing television is gone now.
Sean Bean
#56. Yesterday is gone and nothing but a memory. Maybe a bad one, but there's no way to call it back or change it. Tomorrow is just the whisper of a hope. Today is all you got.
Carolyn Brown
#58. Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.
Eva Figes
#59. You should never allow your yesturday to use up too much of today. The past is gone, and tomorrow is at best a maybe. Live for this moment because it may be all you'll ever have.
~Choo Co La Tah
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#60. Lose all rather than lose your integrity, and when all else is gone, still hold fast a clear conscience as the rarest jewel which can adorn the bosom of a mortal.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#61. The past is gone-the future is not come. And we are here together, you and I.
Diana Gabaldon
#62. How deep is the magic of sound may be learned by breaking some sweet verses into prose. The operation has been compared to gathering dew-drops, which shine like jewels upon the flower, but run into water in the hand. The elements remain, but the sparkle is gone.
Robert Aris Willmott
#63. For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs.
Jeff Goodell
#64. King Robert is gone. The gods give him rest." "No," Ned answered. "He hated rest. The gods give him love and laughter, and the joy of righteous battle.
George R R Martin
#65. I didn't know the names of the flowers - now my garden is gone.
Allen Ginsberg
#66. you will perhaps miss
the part of you that is gone
but do not fear:
all is for the best in the world
and soon you will not realize it is gone:
you have either forgotten it entirely or
it has come back
alive
Tah The Trickster
#67. Why can't you understand that I love you so much, that not being able to touch you hurts? I can't stand the fact that I can't get into your thoughts. Haventon is gone to you, but it's also gone to me. I miss it so much. It feels like my heart's been ripped out from my chest.
Jordan Deen
#68. The past is gone and what is ahead is still to be felt.
Nonna Bannister
#69. Only when the last fish is gone, the last river poisoned, the last tree cut down...will mankind realize they cannot eat money.
Greenpeace
#70. San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.
Jack London
#71. It is a strange thing how quickly the body dies. How fragile a force our presence is. In an instant the soul is gone - leaving an empty, insignificant vessel in its stead.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#72. A fresh attitude starts to happen when we look to see that yesterday was yesterday, and now it is gone; today is today and now it is new. It is like that - every hour, every minute is changing. If we stop observing change, then we stop seeing everything as new
Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
#73. Suddenly I'm having one of those moments that you have after losing someone - when you feel as if you've been kicked in the stomach and all your breath is gone, and you might never get it back. I want to sit down on the dirty, littered ground right now and cry until I can't cry anymore.
Jennifer Niven
#74. If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#75. I was a soldier. It is like a dream. When even the bones is gone in the desert the dreams is talk to you, you don't wake up forever.
Cormac McCarthy
#76. There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.
Mark Twain
#77. Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone ... Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a small child. If yesterday why not today?
Jeanette Winterson
#78. Tessa is gone, and every moment she is gone is a knife ripping me apart from the inside.
Cassandra Clare
#79. Everything I am familiar with is gone.
Marie Lu
#80. The Alkahest is gone. If he's the one who got it, they're not going to bother with prison. He'll be dead as soon as they find him.
Holly Black
#81. The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave on the face of the ocean. When the wave is gone, is the water gone? Has anything happened? Nothing has happened. It is a play, a game, a dance.
Joseph Campbell
#82. Well, quite softly, one day following another, a spring on a winter, and an autumn after a summer, this wore away, piece by piece, crumb by crumb; it passed away, it is gone, I should say it has sunk; for something always remains at the bottom as one would say - a weight here, at one's heart.
Gustave Flaubert
#83. Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.
Euripides
#84. They are such thin things, these lives of ours; cheap got, cheap lost, mere flickers against the ever dark, brief shadows on a wall. This life no more substantial than breath, a light which fills the chambers of our bodies, and is gone.
James D. Bradley
#85. The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?
Philip K. Dick
#86. Don't be sorry, my dear sir, for nothing could upset me today! Rejoice, for You-Know-Who is gone at last! Even muggles like yourself should be celebrating this happy, happy day.
J.K. Rowling
#87. The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
James Anthony Froude
#88. He asks, in a softer voice, "Does your arm still hurt?"
You touch it with your hand. The big ache is gone, leaving only the little, underneath ache that will gather and swell against the bone. The blood leaks out of the vein where he grabbed you. But you say, "It's better now.
Jim Grimsley
#90. Death isn't peaceful; it is just nothing. Everything is gone. No more sunrises, no more hopes, no more fears. Nothing.
Linda Howard
#91. I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix.' I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that it is gone.
James Fallows
#92. If I may, so long as the woman you love lives, and lives for you, all the privilege I claim for my own sex, and it is not a very enviable one - you need not covet it, is that of loving longest when all hope is gone.
Jane Austen
#93. And when all your faith is gone let it be me, if it's a friend you need let it be me
Ray Lamontagne
#94. The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.
Ayn Rand
#95. He looks at me again and the flames vanish and the knife is gone and his voice goes light and breezy and all coffee-shop conversational, as if he wasn't just one second ago impaling me with fiery eyes and discussing the dark fate of my best friend and the souls of all my classmates.
Michelle Knudsen
#96. Ending a television character that you've been, especially someone like Omar Little, it hurts. For me, it's a huge thing. You feel like a part of you is gone.
Michael K. Williams
#97. Mindfulness helps you understand that the past is gone, can't be changed and all the lessons are already learned.
Lidiya K.
#98. Til shade is gone,
til water is gone
Into the shadow with teeth bared
Screaming defiance with the last breath
To spit in Sightblinder's eye on the Last Day.
Robert Jordan
#99. People seemed to think, you get to a certain age or you get married or you, you're comfortable. And so now there's nothing to write about: that angst is gone. The youthful angst. And that just hasn't happened with me.
Lucinda Williams
#100. He is gone and I find myself staring at shoes so large that they could've only belonged to a giant.
J.J. McAvoy
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