They're Gone Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Death cuts off possibilities. Even if they were possibilities you never meant to act on, it feels different
when they're gone.

Eileen Wilks

#3. What I would do, to myself or anyone else, for the chance to go back home? But no one is there. No one I care about. They're gone, protected, far away. Home is no longer the place we're from. Home is safe with them. I hope.

Victoria Aveyard

#4. Tech companies have a finite lifespan: For the successful ones, an IPO or exit is never more than a few years off. But by recruiting locally and developing homegrown talent, companies can build something that remains after they're gone. People, skills and a culture of innovation persist.

Ryan Holmes

#5. When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They're gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The worst things of all worst things.

Miguel Syjuco

#6. I guess the more you start to love someone, the more you ache when they're gone, and maybe it's that middle ground that hurts the most, when you can see them and still not feel like you're near enough. So close and yet so far.

Robin Benway

#7. Most guys have about 73 calories of shopping energy, and once these calories are gone, they're gone for the day - if not the week - and can't be regenerated simply by having an Orange Julius at the Food Fair.

Douglas Coupland

#8. For the first time ever, Beth is letting me see her soul and if I had any doubts before, they're gone. I'm in love with Beth Risk.

Katie McGarry

#9. There's a certain kind of existential freedom that comes to people who realize that all the things that they hold onto and that they think define them, once they're gone, there's this new freedom to determine the way you're going to live your life.

Donal Logue

#10. If you keep your emotions locked in a box, then when you want to open it one day you'll find that they're gone.

M.D. Arnold

#11. Is that why you push people away?" he whispered. "So they can't get close enough to hurt you when they're gone?

Jodi Picoult

#12. I feel so alone," she said. "You don't realize how much space someone takes up until they're gone and there's too much emptiness. This place never echoed before. Now it does." She was mystified.

Faith Sullivan

#13. If there's anything you want to ask your parents, ask them before they go, because once they go, they're gone.

Robert Carlyle

#14. Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in you when they're gone.

Orson Scott Card

#15. The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone.

Dick Gregory

#16. There are films that cost a lot of money that might be decent films. But if they don't perform in that first weekend or two, they're gone.

Grant Heslov

#17. Fathers and mothers are just people, which means they make mistakes. Don't hold that against them. Whatever flaws they may have, they created you in a moment of love, and are among the few who knew you when. When they're gone, there won't be anyone to take their place.

Ernest Borgnine

#18. The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone.

Miley Cyrus

#19. Reality TV has totally destroyed soap operas. They're gone. They used to be the biggest thing in the world - they're gone.

Gilbert Gottfried

#20. It must be one of those narcissists who only appreciate things when they're gone. I'm too sensitive. I need to be slightly numb in order to regain the enthusiasms I once had as a child.

Kurt Cobain

#21. Searching for fish, cook them, eat them. They're gone. Yet, writing is never gone although the writer died.

Pilo Poly

#22. You love them, even though they're gone. In order to love you need to live, if you give up on life you can no longer love. You'd no longer have the capability to love them.

Nicole Sobon

#23. Once they they're gone, I'm left to look around and be alone with my thoughts. It's a dangerous place to be.

Tahereh Mafi

#24. Money, credit scores, material things don't matter. Life & death, your family & friends, once they're gone it's irreversible. Don't forget.

Heather Dorff

#25. ..And if I'm looking for a definition of love then perhaps this is it. That another person can help fill the empty space inside us. Even when they're gone.

Nicholas Hogg

#26. You won't know how much you'll miss someone until they're gone. Go give them a big hug while you have the chance.

Kevin Focke

#27. One day you'll meet someone who will consume your very soul. When you meet that person, you'll know. And if that person ever tries to leave you, fight for them, because once they're gone, life will become a chore.

Belle Aurora

#28. Already the dream was coming apart, its bright silk strands unwinding into nebulous emotions, little coloured clouds of feeling being dispersed by the movement of my waking-up mind. This is how it's always been with Light Bulb Fragment dreams; by the time I'm fully awake, they're gone.

Steven Hall

#29. Careers are here and they're gone. No matter how great we think we are, we're nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we're ruins in the making.

William Shatner

#30. Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts.

Shannon Hale

#31. And if you ever find someone you really love, hold onto them with everything you got. Hold onto them until they're gone. And if they ever are gone, let them go. Don't forget them, but let them go.

K. Martin Beckner

#32. Kids don't come with owner's manuals. You have to figure each of them out, and by the time you do, they're gone.

Richard Paul Evans

#33. It doesn't do to get attached to these secondary characters. It's not their story. They come and go, and when they go, they're gone for good.

Diane Setterfield

#34. Death doesn't make you sad- it makes you empty. That's what's so bad about it. All of your charms and beliefs and funny habits fall fast through a big black hole, and suddenly you know they're gone because just as suddenly, there's nothing left at all inside.

Jonathan Carroll

#35. Fame is a fickle thing that only lasts as long as you can be out there offering yourself to the public. And as soon as you relax for five minutes, they're gone, you know, and they're following somebody else.

Jesse Stone

#36. It's no different from losing a loved one," he said. "You grieve, but then you have no choice but to go on living your life. You find a way to be happy again. It's not impossible. You just have to decide when you're ready to accept that they're gone.

Julianne MacLean

#37. You can't replace a tree anyway. Like people, you don't know how big they were till they're gone.

George Ella Lyon

#38. I hate Alzheimer's. It is one of the most awful things because, here is a loved one, this is the woman or man that you have loved for 20, 30, 40 years, and suddenly, that person is gone. They're gone. They are gone.

Pat Robertson

#39. A man dies ... only a few circles in the water prove that he was ever there. And even they quickly disappear. And when they're gone, he's forgotten, without a trace, as if he'd never even existed. And that's all.

Wolfgang Borchert

#40. Even if teen-age children aren't making a sound, it's quieter when they're gone. They put a boiling in the air around them. As they left, the whole house seemed to sigh and settle. No wonder poltergeists infest only houses with adolescent children. The

John Steinbeck

#41. It's funny how there are things in this world that do nothing but annoy you, but you know you'd miss them when they're gone.

Markus Zusak

#42. There comes a moment when we must choose how we're going to love someone. Some forms of love leave a sweet memory once they're gone, others leave scars. But there are forms that when stolen, destroy part of who we are - love that transforms us.

Caroline George

#43. Enjoy that you can see me now. I would love to see the great Michael Jordan and Julius Erving in their younger days, but they're gone. Look at me at 50, I'm going to eat right and live right so I can take less punches and look normal.

Bernard Hopkins

#44. Now that Karen has been resurrected, I can travel beyond the black mirror. I can discover who I have lost with the
floating hearts and severed heads of my medicine. I must now whisper my other friends back too. I'm sad they're gone ... sad and blue.

Nicholaus Patnaude

#45. My classmates surround me as I sit in this folding chair. They laugh and hug one another and talk about how much they will miss each other once they're gone. And all I can think is that I have been gone for a long time, but none of them miss me.

Amanda Grace

#46. The more you start to love someone, the more you ache when they're gone, and maybe it's that middle ground that hurts the most, when you can see them and still not feel like you're near enough.

Robin Benway

#47. Be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're gone.

Mary Schmich

#48. I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.

Maya Angelou

#49. When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.

Margaret Atwood

#50. Summer romances begin for all kinds of reasons, but when all is said and done, they have one thing in common. They're shooting stars, a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, fleeting glimpse of eternity, and in a flash they're gone

Red

#51. You don't appreciate things until they're gone. For me, I miss my friends; I don't miss boxing, I miss the camaraderie.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#52. We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.

Richard Paul Evans

#53. I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you can't interview them, you have a fuller perspective on their whole life after they're gone and people are more willing to talk about them.

David Maraniss

#54. President Obama and his family are spending the holidays in Hawaii, and while they're gone, they got a fence jumper to house sit. Tomorrow, he will be in Hawaii playing golf with Raul Castro and the Pope.

David Letterman

#55. Somethings you don't know you want until they're gone. Other things you think want, but don't understand you already have them.

Gayle Forman

#56. If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let'em go...because man, they're gone!

Jack Handy

#57. Many people spend their lives trying to create a lasting legacy on earth. They want to be remembered when they're gone. Yet, what ultimately matters most will not be what others say about your life but what God says.

Rick Warren

#58. People say love isn't supposed to be painful. But maybe the best things in life are the ones that hurt the most after they're gone.

Julie Johnson

#59. 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.

Ozzy Osbourne

#60. The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

Alice Munro

#61. It was before there were any words; there were just things without names, and things without names don't stay in your mind. They fall out, and then they're gone.

M.R. Carey

#62. There's nothing about the times when she wasn't funny or sexy, or when she talked too much or about her pissing or shitting. There's no way to really preserve a person when they're gone and that's because whatever you write down it's not the truth, it's just a story.

Steven Hall

#63. Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.

Ric Ocasek

#64. If you've ever lost someone that you love, and I say 'love' and not 'loved' because even when they're gone, you still love them, you know that never goes away, but your life changes.

Rachel Spanswick

#65. Guys are like dogs. They keep comin' back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they're gone.

Lenny Bruce

#66. The hardest lesson in the world:
Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.

Cormac McCarthy

#67. I'm always depressed when a book ends, because those are my friends for however long the book takes to write. Since I spend so many hours with these fictional people, I sometimes see them more than my real friends. And then they're gone, and we'll never be together like that again.

Seanan McGuire

#68. The thing about loving someone, is that yelling at them only feels good while you're doing it
as soon as they're gone, all you want to do is take it all back

Lauren Barnholdt

#69. Nightmares never last. one day you wake up and they're gone.

Akira Toriyama

#70. You don't know what it's like to lose a child, but I do. When they're gone, every cold word you uttered is a scar on your soul, every missed opportunity with them a pain that will never heal.

Jeaniene Frost

#71. Several minutes passed. Several more. Nothing but silence and darkness.
"I think they're gone," Brenda whispered. She flicked on her torch.
"Hello, noses!" a hideous voice yelled from the room.
Then a bloody hand reached through the doorway and grabbed Thomas by the shirt.

James Dashner

#72. I'm trying to make sense of lot of things with 'Tyrannosaur.' I'm trying to make sense of people who've left now. They're not here, they can't answer for themselves any more, they're gone. And I'm trying to make peace with those ghosts.

Paddy Considine

#73. There are people who die and, with all due respect, you don't lose anything. But he was one of those that when they're gone you feel it. As if the whole world had become, from one day to the next, a little heavier.

Alessandro Baricco

#74. It's amazing how you can live without somebody your entire life and then you meet them, let them in, let them take over your every thought, and then the moment they're gone, you feel like you're fucking dying.

Claire Contreras

#75. The law of thermodynamics, you know, the idea that nothing is lost, that a loss in one area equals a gain in the other, was actually not invented by scientists but by the people who write redemptive fiction. [...] Actually, in real life, we lose things all the time and they're gone. Lost, period.

Jane Hamilton

#76. My mother always says that fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone we're left with the concept, but not the true memory.

Tea Obreht

#77. The other thing about moments that are given to us? They're limited. We don't get an endless amount. If you miss them, they're gone. Time machines don't exist; you can't go back and fix what's been broken.

Rachel Van Dyken

#78. Words are like breath," she said, "you say them and they're gone. But writing traps them.

Bernard Cornwell

#79. But there are a few people in your life who become so much a part of you that it feels like you're missing a limb when they're gone.

Melanie Shankle

#80. You don't have to know someone all the way to miss them. Or to feel bad when they're gone" -Leo

Ally Condie

#81. There are millions of stars, each one shining and burning out at the same time. They die like everything else - you have to appreciate them before they're gone

Anna Carey

#82. I still can't believe that people can exist and then not exist, from one second to the next. And when they're gone, all they are is an accumulation of things. They're reduced to whatever possessions they leave behind.

Anna Jarzab

#83. If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they're gone.

Willie Nelson

#84. Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.

Liam Neeson

#85. Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone.

Seth Godin

#86. Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#87. I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back.

Prince

#88. I think that there are few people in one's life that you never really feel that they're gone. I have to remind myself that she isn't around.

Blake Edwards

#89. They're gone. I let them chase me. I led them like a sunbeam and vanished like a shadow.

Erin Bow

#90. It hurts when they're gone. And it doesn't matter if it's slow or fast, whether it's a long drawn-out disease or an unexpected accident. When they're gone the world turns upside down and you're left holding on, trying not to fall off.

Walter Mosley

#91. So often, we push away the voices closest to us. But once they're gone, we reach for them.

Mitch Albom

#92. Wanted to talk to them. I wanted to tell them that I was sorry. I wanted to say what every child wishes to say to his parents when they're gone and it's too late to say anything at all: that I loved them, and had always loved them.

John Connolly

#93. Just make sure the day doesn't pass without sayin' what's in your heart. Sometimes you pass up those chances and they're gone forever.

Dan Groat

#94. People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.

John Green

#95. Fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone, we're left with the concept, but not the true memory
why else ... would anyone give birth more than once?

Tea Obreht

#96. They believe all connections are temporary, so to cling to them makes no sense. When someone is gone, they're gone. Live for now; the present is all there is. You can't know what will happen next, so why worry? Consequences are natural and.inevitable. just do what you feel you must.

Chris Wooding

#97. The Ancient Egyptians were not fools, Carter. They built the pyramids. They created the first great nation state. Their civilization lasted thousands of years."
"Yeah," I said. "And now they're gone.

Rick Riordan

#98. Well," said Mrs. Wiggins at last, "I guess they're gone. They won't drown - that's a comfort. They'll float down and land somewhere, but the current is pretty swift, and they may go miles before they can get ashore.

Walter R. Brooks

#99. Losing someone you love is harder. One minute they're there, the next they're gone. There were times I wished they would rise up from the dead.

Denise Grover Swank

#100. It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible.

Lucien Bouchard