Long Gone Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Progress is a fine thing, but it's gone on long enough.

Ogden Nash

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.

James Lovelock

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. I eat, breath and sleep and that makes me like everyone else. When I write, I become something much greater than flesh & bone; something that will stay behind long after that part of me is gone. Writing makes me special, readers make me everlasting.

C.K. Webb

#18. 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.

Ani DiFranco

#19. You have blotted out the past for me, you know, far more effectively than all the bright lights of Monte Carlo. But for you I should have left long ago, gone to Italy, and Greece, and further still perhaps. You have spared me all those wanderings.

Daphne Du Maurier

#20. You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.

Ernst Lubitsch

#21. I don't know how long it's been since I've been gone, but you have to move on. If not today, then someday soon.
I love you, Ryden, I will always love you, but I'm not here anymore.

Jessica Verdi

#22. I believe America has gone a long way down the wrong road. If we ever needed God's help, it is now.

Billy Graham

#23. After the long time of going together and the mutual trust that had grown out of that time, Payne had occasion to realize that no mutual trust had grown out of the long time they had gone together.

Thomas McGuane

#24. I was going, going, gone-like falling off the side of a cliff in the movies-until I managed to find a foothold and stop myself. But who knew how long it would last? That bit of rock or vine always gives out, doesn't it? The only question was when.

Stacey Kade

#25. Don't hold on too long;to which does not belong,
Don't shed a tear; for all the pain that's gone,
Create a new;from the wisdom of the past,
Open your heart wider, as storms do not last.

Nikki Rowe

#26. And this man, who during three long decades had not once remembered that the world contains lilac bushes - and pansies, sandy garden paths, little carts with containers of fizzy water - this man gave a deep sigh, convinced now that life had gone on in his absence, that life had continued. (pg8)

Vasily Grossman

#27. You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#28. I cannot express enough how every decision that we make as human beings is so critical to those that come after us. It may not seem like much at the time, but some of our decisions affect children generations long after we are gone from this place.

Ahmad Aleem Williams

#29. Perhaps the ultimate test of a leader is not what you are able to do in the here and now - but instead what continues to grow long after you're gone

Tom Rath

#30. If you could figure out how to live with family then you'd gone a long way toward finding your peace.

Ben Fountain

#31. As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for centuries gone virtually unchallenged - indeed, for Edward Said, it was the beginning of Europe's long habit of misunderstanding and ill-informed contempt of the Middle East.

Neil MacGregor

#32. Once you've produced the scientific data that's necessary to make a drug into a medicine, you've gone a long way towards mainstreaming the acceptance of these drugs as having beneficial properties. And then the step to legalization is not that far behind that.

Rick Doblin

#33. Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

James Thurber

#34. Young sir," he said, "you speak like an expert. And an expert, I can assure you, from a long association with them, is someone who has gone to considerable pains to be absolutely wrong.

Leonard Holton

#35. 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

#36. Sometimes it seemed that she and rudy were two people attempting to tango, sweating and trying, long after the orchestra had grown tired, long after everyone else had gone home.

Lorrie Moore

#37. The dark swallowed him, but his dragging footsteps could be heard a long time after he had gone, footsteps along the road; and a car came by on the highway, and its lights showed the ragged man shuffling along the road, his head hanging down and his hands in the black coat pockets.

John Steinbeck

#38. I don't care how much it costs or who it's by as long as it fits me. I love shopping, but I go to the same stores I've always gone to: Guess, Bebe, Coach. I can't really skip out of that realm.

JWoww

#39. Give me my freedom for as long as I be All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me And all I ask of dyin' is to go naturally ... And when I die, and when I'm gone There'll be one child born, in our world To carry on, to carry on ...

Laura Nyro

#40. What you give to help others, builds them up enough that they are able to give to others. It's a cycle that can continue on long after you're dead and gone.

John C. Maxwell

#41. Think what you will, blackbird, for I'll be here long after thee's gone they course and died thy death.

Stephen King

#42. He was so excited by this little bit of intelligence that he might have gone off, perplexed, pondering for a long time. It was like reading a wonderful sentence in a book, and not being able to continue because so many possibilities were crowding his mind.

Anne Rice

#43. You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you'll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no ... anything. There's no chance at all of recovery. You'll just - exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever ... lost.

J.K. Rowling

#44. Every once in a while your world stands still ... There are certain friendships that are so important they leave a mark on you long after the person is gone.

Art Buchwald

#45. Small said, "But what about when we are dead and gone, will you love me then, does love go on?"
... Large (replied) "Look at the stars, how they shine and glow, some of the stars died a long time ago. Still they shine in the evening skies, for you see ... love like starlight never dies ...

Debi Gliori

#46. Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves,-not dead, but gone before,- He gathers round him.

Samuel Rogers

#47. I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up.

Imelda May

#48. The printed word will be around long after many of our digital creations are gone, either because books don't require monthly hosting, and blogs and websites do ... or because the languages and platforms for which a particular digital creation was published will become obsolete.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#49. Death of a parent, he wrote, despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and that may cut free memories and feelings that we had thought gone to ground long ago.

Joan Didion

#50. One Saturday, he had gone to take the subway to Pennsylvania Station en route for the Soviet week-end rest camp at Glen Cove, the former Morgan estate on Long Island.

Ian Fleming

#51. Remember that a noble logical diagram, once recorded, will never die; long after we are gone, it will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.

Willis Polk

#52. 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

#53. I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#54. 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

#55. Rincewind gave his fingers a long shocked stare, as one might regard a gun that has been hanging on the wall for decades and has suddenly gone off and perforated the cat.

Terry Pratchett

#56. But just for a minute. I won't be gone long and if she wakes up before I get back tell her that I love her.

Amanda Stephan

#57. I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.

John Ortberg

#58. There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable failure and better times long gone.

Christopher Fowler

#59. Push the door open the discovery could be, great that when the rain is long gone the sun might shine

Edward Malatji

#60. Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. And so we ask ourselves: will our actions echo across the centuries? Will strangers hear our names long after we are gone, and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought, how fiercely we loved?

Wolfgang Petersen

#61. I don't think a songwriter should lose their mojo. In my situation, I'm one of those artists that lasts over a long period rather than have your moment and your moment is gone.

Jimmy Cliff

#62. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

Daniel Burnham

#63. Liv! The perpetrator has probably not returned to the scene of the crime. Pee Diddy is long gone by now.

Jesse Andrews

#64. If not for my diaries, I would swear I had lived only half as long as I have. Long periods of my life seem to have vanished. And now I read the passages and wonder who I was when I wrote them, for I cannot remember the events of my life. There are times I sit and wonder where it all has gone.

Nicholas Sparks

#65. I'd gone from being simply awkward to being completely weird. Like I'd traveled a long way, only to feel like I was stuck in the same place.

C.L.Stone

#66. He'd gone so long without a brain, and the thought of all that wasted time was nearly enough to make him cry - except, of course, that he couldn't. At least he was a king now. That was something. He was powerful. He was smart. And he was getting smarter by the minute.

Danielle Paige

#67. The one whose egoism is gone, he becomes God. One is a mortal (jivatma) as long as there is egoism and if his egoism goes away, he becomes the eternal Absolute Supreme Soul (Paramatma).

Dada Bhagwan

#68. I never wrote him. I never saw him again. He was just gone, this dear, dear man, this friend of my soul in the hospital so long ago, disappeared. This is a New York story too.

Elizabeth Strout

#69. Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

William J. Clinton

#70. The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisible armor that lingers in a room long after its wearer has gone and infuses our imagination with a subtle power, hinting at a hidden identity.

Mary Gaitskill

#71. I come out of the bathroom and the first thing I see is Ed. Okay, it was a long shot, but I was half hoping he would cease to exist while we were gone.

Cath Crowley

#72. One day. I knew she wasn't saying soon or before too long because that would mean her dad was gone. She couldn't say that. I understood. But one day was haunting me.

Abbi Glines

#73. 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

#74. I'd like to do a film in Canada, but it's too difficult. National Film Board funding takes too long, and there's too much paperwork; by the time the film is approved the topic is dead and gone.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#75. But now he was married and had children, and even though he still had the boat the aura of island romanticism had gone. The long hair too.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#76. I've been gone for a long time. I really want to give the fans something that they deserve to have. So, I'm working really hard on this. I really want to make it the best work I've done so far.

Brandy Norwood

#77. Longstreet stayed up talking, as long as there was company, as long as there was a fire. Because when the fire was gone and the dark had truly come there was no way he could avoid the dead faces of his children.

Michael Shaara

#78. The receiver has to expend energy to measure the electromagnetic waves in the vacuum disturbed by the long-gone photon.

Anonymous

#79. The sky was filled with fat stars, swollen from the long night. The moon had risen briefly and then slipped out of sight. It was one of those sad moons that no one looks at or pays attention to. It had hung there a while, misshapen, not shedding any light, and then gone to hide behind the hills.

Juan Rulfo

#80. It was like coming home after you'd been gone a long, long time. It held a million promises of summer and of what just might be.

Jenny Han

#81. Every good time that goes on too long turns into a hell.

Mason Cooley

#82. Tooter had gone back to court to testify in Billy's murder trial. The Leavenworth justice system had been a travesty for as long as I could remember, and the term "old boy network" was alive and well there.

Thomas M. Sartain

#83. Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#84. Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.

Sarah Vowell

#85. Warlocks are dark sorcerers on a dark path. They eat the souls of their enemies to absorb their strength. I haven't gone up against one of them in ... a long time. I didn't think there were any left. - Skulduggery

Derek Landy

#86. Sometimes, you can hold a grudge for so long you forget why you were holding onto it. And before you know it, half a lifetime has gone by and all you've got is a empty fist and a lot of regret.

Benjamin Wood

#87. The truth is that you do forget people. When you conjure them up, long after they have gone, you can't recall the essence of them, just the outline.

Helen Humphreys

#88. Its been a long time coming but now the snow is gone

Josh Ritter

#89. So I'm skeptical and cynical about the whole thing and it's only if something seems to be genuine that I would pursue it. That's why I've stuck with Zen for so long and not gone on to some other path with it.

Brad Warner

#90. The pain you have gone through will give you the strength of character to come through it all, so long as you learn from what you have suffered then it was not suffering at all.

Stephen Richards

#91. At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

#92. We may not live for hundreds of years, but the products of our creativity can leave a legacy long after we are gone.

Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

#93. New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach ... and I love rap.

Action Bronson

#94. As long as this belief, 'I am the doer' is not gone, one has not yet attained an iota of exact religion. He is still in the auspicious-inauspicious [shubh-ashubh] state.

Dada Bhagwan

#95. You been gone too long, Sula. Not too long, but maybe too far.

Toni Morrison

#96. George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

#97. 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.

Richard Bach

#98. Children are God's way of letting us know His work will continue, even long after we are gone.

J.W. Lord

#99. Sammy felt...that he would rather not love at all than be punished for loving. He had no idea of how long his life would one day seem to have gone on; how daily present the absence of love would come to feel.

Michael Chabon

#100. The skull always grinned because it knew it would emerge triumphant, that it would comprise the sole identity of the face long after vain baubles like lips and skin and eyes were gone.

Poppy Z. Brite