Top 100 Long Gone Quotes
#1. But I can't help thinking of the shock I felt when I finally realised it was winter, on exiting Mizuko's apartment. The summer was long gone, but I hadn't noticed until then.
Olivia Sudjic
#2. One of the blessings human beings take for granted is the ability to remember pain without re-feeling it. The pain of the physical wounds is long gone ... and the other kind of hurt, the damage done to our spirits, has been healed. We are careful with those scarred places in each other.
Lisa Kleypas
#3. It roars and roars and when we're both long gone from this world, it will ripple with whispers until the end of time.
K. Webster
#4. I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.
(Washington DC, 12 May, 2008)
George W. Bush
#5. Sensei says funerals are not really for the dead. They are for those left behind. "The dead are long gone by the time a funeral is held," he told us. "Who would wait when the doors of Heaven are open? Only the living would be foolish enough to still hang around on earth.
Sandy Fussell
#6. The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof.
Steve Jobs
#7. Memories, James thought, thank God we have them. They help us to recall what's long gone, and we can live again in the past with those we once loved.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
#8. There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable failure and better times long gone.
Christopher Fowler
#9. Push the door open the discovery could be, great that when the rain is long gone the sun might shine
Edward Malatji
#10. Liv! The perpetrator has probably not returned to the scene of the crime. Pee Diddy is long gone by now.
Jesse Andrews
#11. Pop culture was the new religion. The era of the matinee idol was long gone. At the forefront of all things cool was the pop star, the rock artist. They were the new gods, and to be in a band, to be part of it all, was like joining an international religion, becoming part of a holy order.
Erich Rautenbach
#12. The receiver has to expend energy to measure the electromagnetic waves in the vacuum disturbed by the long-gone photon.
Anonymous
#13. Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.
Sarah Vowell
#14. George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
#15. 1.7% increase in terms of success rate a year, its nothing. By the time we get to the 24 century we might have effective treatments, Star Trek will be long gone by that time.
Ralph W. Moss
#16. The age of great men, when a single mind of intelligence and vision might change the destiny of the world, was long gone.
Helen Simonson
#17. Long gone was the cheery welcome of the seaside hotelier, replaced by a weary nostalgia for the good old days.
Alan Gibbons
#18. The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better ports, seafarers head for a seamen's mission.
Rose George
#19. Then Bony Lizzie walked right past me, knelt by General Stanton, and cut off his thumb bones. I had to remind myself that his cries of pain were just the after-effects of his body since his soul was long gone.
Joseph Delaney
#20. My dad's so likeable, you wouldn't feel in competition with him. If any boyfriends have ever felt that, they're long gone.
Julia Sawalha
#21. By the time I'm old and retired I'm hoping to contribute enough that people can take this piece and run with it then others, such as the college students that are participating on this can take off and finish out the mission when I'm long gone
Tim Samaras
#22. My parents wanted their daughter back, and I haven't had the courage to tell them she's long gone. Haven't found a way to break it to them that that girl doesn't exist anymore.
Charlie Donlea
#23. To be thankful when my world lays in ashes long gone cold is to finally understand that ashes are the raw materials from which God shapes dreams infinitely grander than whatever the ashes were before they were ashes.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#24. Because beautiful things, even when they are temporary, still manage to leave a part of their beauty with you ... even after they're long gone.
Bella Forrest
#25. Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone, But love is not over ...
Walt Whitman
#26. I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.
Helene Hanff
#27. No doubt, I had some kind of carefully designed pattern for living before my son came. Some strategy for defining myself. Whatever that pattern was, it is long gone. Levered out of the way by a tool so powerful no force on earth can resist it.
Mark Greene
#28. Me getting in your bed was the first step, T. My presence in your bed was my way of telling you I was all in, because I knew," his voice, long gone hoarse, cracked, "I knew you were an all-in kinda guy, so I took the leap. Jumped for you. But you ran from me.
Avril Ashton
#29. It's a funny thing - the reality is I have no feelings about school. It's long gone. Funnily enough, the bad memories - of which I don't have any left to be honest, I can just remember a sense of tedium - have faded. And teachers that I liked have remained quite vivid. There are three or four left.
Colin Firth
#30. Babe, I'm inked into your skin, and you're pregnant with my baby. Your time to run away is long gone.
Elle Aycart
#31. [While writing history], I've kept the most interesting company imaginable with people long gone. Some I've come to know better than many I know in real life, since in real life we don't get to read other people's mail.
David McCullough
#32. Alafair Burke understands the criminal mind. Long Gone is both an education and an entertainment of the first order. This is a very clever and very smart novel by a very clever and smart writer. The dialogue crackles, the plot is intriguing, and the pacing is perfect.
Karin Slaughter
#33. There were a lot more girls at the shows early on. I'd get off stage and there would be options. Those days are long gone, thank god.
Mark Kozelek
#34. Those right or left wing radicals are not our problem.
Those devils that hurt us are long gone.
As men and women, we find the only enemy (with power) we have is our choices to avoid love or cling to it with everything we got!
Matthew Akers
#35. Heyday, now that is a funny word ain't it? Part of a heyday is, you don't never know you are having yourself one till later when it's all over with, long gone.
Lee Smith
#36. It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.
Aaliyah
#37. Someone who normally moved so slowly, this time, for once, was long gone.
Sarah Dessen
#38. They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
Waylon Jennings
#40. The man was a mystery to Jim. Sometimes, he seemed to be the perfect Southern gentleman from days long gone. At other times, he had an air of timelessness, that of someone who had seen and experienced much.
Philip C. Elrod
#41. What we have now, shall never be again. The poets of the past sit in amazement of the wanna-be's of an era long gone.
T. Grassan
#42. I often dream ... of my parents and of my former patients - all long gone but loved and important in my life.
Oliver Sacks
#43. I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit.
Esther Williams
#44. Music is ... a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#45. I wish social disparity has long gone, people can be genuine, and news can be fact-based and error-free.
Aishah Madadiy
#46. Give me
a moon-blanket night
to keep me warm
a long-gone smile
to comfort me
a pair of rain-blue eyes
to haunt me
a simple soul
...to love me.
Sanober Khan
#47. In searching for a way out of my own troubles, I had found my way into the trouble of others, some long gone, and now I was trying to find my way back out, through their troubles, as if we human beings can ever learn from one another.
Jesse Ball
#48. What I wanted was to write a memoir that was immersive rather than reflective, to resurrect a long-gone version of my own consciousness. I kept expecting that sooner or later the effort would come to seem like second nature to me, but it never did.
Kevin Brockmeier
#49. Religions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there's no reason why religions have to play that role. In a way, it's an artefact from times long gone.
Carl Sagan
#50. The traditional rules for having children are long gone. Some days I feel like the harder choice is to not have a kid.
Henriette Mantel
#51. God was long gone before Nietzsche made his death certificate into a slogan, but no one
has yet written the obituary of the Devil.
Thomas Ligotti
#52. Listen, said Beverly. Let me tell you something. There is no Very Friendly Animal Center. That cat is long gone.
Kate DiCamillo
#53. At times, look back towards your ancient days, drink deep from the eternal fountain of wisdom long gone, and then look ahead.
Abhijit Naskar
#54. Long gone are the days of the stylised old James Bond films with Roger Moore karate chopping his way through the bad guys - audiences are not going to buy it anymore. The genre has got quite serious now.
Adam Rayner
#55. They said this would be the last year for corn. It needed too many fertilizers, and the oil to make them - the oil to make anything - was long gone, or at least so expensive it might as well not exist. She wanted
Jeri Smith-Ready
#56. Richard's ex-girlfriends were long gone, but their voices followed him all the time and spoke to him, like Muses or Furies. It was like having seven superegos arranged in a firing squad before a single beleaguered id, making sure he didn't enjoy that last cigarette.
Neal Stephenson
#57. My God, I think about way back in the day when we were running around in Mary Janes and Doc Martens, that whole 90210-inspired look. I'm glad that's long gone.
Meghan Markle
#58. It took a while for her to figure out she could run but when she did she was long gone, Long gone..
Keith Urban
#59. When I was a child? Only the nostalgia for those days of utter, absolute irresponsibility, now long gone. But for her (and this she would never have admitted to anyone), those days weren't gone at all. She still felt totally irresponsible.
Francoise Sagan
#60. The long distance hiker, a breed set apart,
From the likes of the usual pack.
He'll shoulder his gear, be hittin' the trail;
Long gone, long 'fore he'll be back.
M.J. Eberhart
#61. No, nothing,' said Dumbledore, and a great sadness filled his face. 'The time is long gone when I could frighten you with a burning wardrobe and force you to make repayment for your crimes. But I wish I could, Tom ... I wish I could ...
J.K. Rowling
#62. I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall.
Neil Gaiman
#63. The Arab Spring is over. The days of the protesters with laptops and BlackBerrys in Tahrir Square are long gone.
Richard Engel
#64. Long gone are the days when automobiles expanded possibility and choice for the majority of Americans. Now, thanks to its ever-increasing demands for space, speed, and time, the car has reshaped our landscape and lifestyles around its own needs. It is an instrument of freedom that has enslaved us.
Jeff Speck
#65. There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
Alan Greenspan
#66. That time is long gone. But aren't we still the same people?
Donal Ryan
#67. Shallow roots. Sandy soil. The bark is gray and rough. The leaves are long gone but her name still looks beautiful to me.
Ally Condie
#68. Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.
Jacques Chirac
#69. Someday, he'll realize he made a big mistake. He'll show up here, you'll be long gone, and the only bitch greeting him will be me.
Penelope Ward
#70. If you want to feel the life and the body of great men who are long gone, go to their tombs or monuments; if you want to understand the real life and the wisdom of great men who are long gone, go to their libraries!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#71. Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what I look like, because it's out of my shaky hands. I don't control it. So why would I waste one second of my life worrying about it?
Michael J. Fox
#72. I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end - they don't get to be on TV.
Amy Poehler
#73. My dad is from Ironwood and the last time I was in Marquette was in 1995 when my dad was still alive. Dad would have loved this. Even though my family is long gone from this area it still feels like home.
Jorma Kaukonen
#74. The world that birthed that story is long gone, all its people are dead, but it continues to touch the present and future because someone cared enough about that world to keep it. To put it in words. To remember it.
Isaac Marion
#75. I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye.
James Taylor
#76. This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone.
Sam Shepard
#77. You know what the Chinese think is the saddest feeling in the world? It's for a child to finally grow the desire to take care of his parents, only to realize that they were long gone.
Ken Liu
#78. The fierce battles between New Democrat centrists and old-style liberals that defined the Democratic Party in the 1990s are long gone, with the party unified behind Barack Obama's economic agenda of universal health care, expensive federal programs and more regulation of the financial markets.
Nina Easton
#79. The days of exploration of Shackleton and Scott are long gone. Everything has been climbed, crossed, done. Now what we're exploring are the full boundaries of human endeavour. It's not physical - it's all in the head.
Lewis Gordon Pugh
#80. The man at the end of the bar was looking at me. ... Should I get drunk and sleep with him now? But I could see that I would regret that so much I would want to die after. I didn't want to get involved with anyone, and I didn't want to bear being alone with the warmth left by someone long gone.
Fuminori Nakamura
#81. Those days are long gone. But our corporations haven't caught up with it. Our law firms, our higher education system, and our medical institutions haven't figured out how this family policy is going to work. Men are tired of the 80- to 100-hour work week as well.
Vicki Donlan
#82. I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so that when I'm long gone my great-great-grandchildren can walk up to it and say, "That's my ancestor." That will be my legacy.
Tracy Morgan
#83. Those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.
Dean Koontz
#84. Long Gone is the type of book that should come with a warning. It's a compulsively readable, highly addictive story. The ending will leave you breathless.
Karin Slaughter
#85. Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors' annual medical expenses.
Jim Gerlach
#86. I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do - a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#87. When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once ...
James Joyce
#88. The days of me being "tolerant" are long gone. The days of me being "intolerant" have just begun.
James D. Sass
#89. As for him "feeling dead", that's probably just a consequence of him being gone from your life for so long. In some sense he no longer feels real to you.
Paula Hawkins
#90. We know everyone we love is going to die, but we don't know it, can't possibly believe it, she thought, or long ago I would have gone and started digging until I had a hole big enough to lie down in.
Rae Meadows
#91. Progress is a fine thing, but it's gone on long enough.
Ogden Nash
#92. Clary?" he thought.
Her voice came through, tinged with alarm. "What is it? What's happened? Did my mom find out I'm gone?"
"Not yet," he thought back. "Is Azazel the cat from the Smurfs?"
There was a long pause. "That's Azrael, Simon. And no more using the magic rings for Smurfs question.
Cassandra Clare
#93. Life is moments going by, but if you don't grab them, they're gone. For a long time, the only moments that were available were bad ones. So now I make sure to grab the good ones.
George Lopez
#94. Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.
James Lovelock
#95. We are not killing the planet. It is our arrogance that makes us believe we are capable of such destruction. The earth will be here at the end of it all, long after we're gone. The only thing the human race is destroying is our ability to inhabit it.
Luke Gracias
#96. Life is a long road with lots of junctions and every time you chose to go one way, you may just have easily have gone the other. We don't make choices so much as choices are made like a new fashion we slip into without realising.
Chloe Thurlow
#97. I've gone through so much in my life. I should have been dead a long time ago, but I am still here, and I'm the happiest I've ever been.
Etta James
#98. If you're looking for a place to rest Cold Mountain is good for a long stay The breeze blowing through the dark pines Sounds better the closer you come And under the trees a white haired man Mumbles over his Taoist texts Ten years now he hasn't gone home He's even forgotten the road he came by
Hanshan
#99. Long after everyone else has given up and gone home and gotten on with their lives, he would keep on believing because, without evidence, you could never kill his belief.
Tim Johnston
#100. Don't be afraid, Queen ... don't be afraid, Queen, the blood has long since gone into the earth. And where it was spilled, grapevines are already growing.
Mikhail Bulgakov
