Top 100 Went Away Quotes
#1. When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.
John Updike
#2. But peace returns to my heart.
Not peace as it used to be
before it left me years ago. It went away to school,
matured as I did,
and came back looking like me.
Yehuda Amichai
#3. My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.
Nancy Pelosi
#4. The pain from the abuse never went away, I just embraced it to become what I am today
Timothy Long
#5. They cursed us - not with a common cursory curse, but with long, carefully-thought-out, comprehensive curses, that embraced the whole of our career, and went away into the distant future, and included all our relations, and covered everything connected with us - good, substantial curses.
Jerome K. Jerome
#6. I went away, dear Agnes, loving you. I stayed away, loving you. I returned home, loving you!
Charles Dickens
#7. Can you hear me, Father? Can you understand me?" The eyes did not change or move. "I did it,"
Cal cried. "I'm responsible for Aron's death and for your sickness. I took him to Kate's. I showed him
his mother. That's why he went away. I don't want to do bad things - but I do them.
John Steinbeck
#8. Connie went away completely bewildered. She was not sure whether she had been insulted and mortally offended, or not.
D.H. Lawrence
#9. A lot of the reason the Universal version of 'Heights' went away is that they were afraid they didn't have a big enough Latino star to bankroll this movie. The people I dealt with at the studio who wanted to make this movie were very passionate about it.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#10. Everything that happens where we live happens in us. Everything that ceases in what we see ceases in us. Everything that has been, if we saw it when it was, was taken from us when it went away.
Fernando Pessoa
#11. I loved my friend
He went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends,
Soft as it began-
I loved my friend.
Langston Hughes
#12. For directly afterwards, the Dodger, and Charley, and the two young ladies, went away together, having been kindly furnished by the amiable old Jew with money to spend.
Charles Dickens
#13. Moscow was burned by its citizens
that is true; not, however by the citizens who remained, but by those that went away.
Leo Tolstoy
#14. The kind of noise that made your skin crawl and made you press your hands to your ears and pray it went away.
James Dashner
#15. I had that Restylane stuff. It looked fake to me. I didn't like that. But it went away in, like, four months. My lips are back to what they were. Thank God!
Jessica Simpson
#16. I moved out to New Zealand to live as I thought the warmth and peace and quiet would help me. I went away and changed my whole life routine.
Michael Crawford
#17. When I stopped living in the problem and began living in the answer, the problem went away.
Alcoholics Anonymous
#18. Hillary Clinton has been The Smartest Woman in the World in her circle since 1970 when she went away to college.
Rush Limbaugh
#19. I could pretend that I was ok
I wind around the parties, drink in hand
I could pretend when you went away
That I had changed and I no longer hear the band
Corinne Bailey Rae
#20. The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away.
Elie Wiesel
#21. I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?
Colin Hay
#22. 35 In the early morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house, and went away to a secluded place, and was praying there. 36Simon and his companions searched for Him; 37they found Him, and *said to Him, Everyone is looking for You.
Anonymous
#23. Then, one by one, they went away, for night was falling on the storm, wrapping in shadows the raging ocean and all the battling elements.
Guy De Maupassant
#24. Man blinked. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely. "Everything must have a purpose?" asked God. "Certainly," said man. "Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God. And He went away. I
Kurt Vonnegut
#25. At sunset the little soul that had come with the dawning went away, leaving heartbreak behind it
L.M. Montgomery
#26. I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of ballet cured me of that.
Juliet Mills
#27. The lights flickered, the pain went away, and her mother was holding her, singing 'Sleep sweet sleep'. (The Children of Ankh series) Kim Cormack
Kim Cormack
#28. I thought to myself: 'Is the pain a little less than when I went away?' and tried to persuade myself that it was so.
Graham Greene
#29. She was the only thing I needed. If everything else went away tomorrow, the big house, all the cars, the money, I wouldn't care. As long as I still got to hold her every night, I would still be the luckiest guy in the world.
Kirsty Moseley
#30. I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
Neil Gaiman
#31. He went away as if weights were tied to every limb that bore him from her.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#32. The sun won't shine since you went away, seems like the rain's falling every day. There's just one heart, where there once was two; that's the way it's gotta be until I get over you.
Christina Milian
#33. I knew how hard loss was. It never went away, but stayed with you like a faint shadow that was thicker some days than others.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#34. The happy times went away for a while, but they're coming back
Jennifer Niven
#35. The falling leaves drift by the window The autumn leaves of red and gold ... I see your lips, the summer kisses The sunburned hands, I used to hold Since you went away, the days grow long And soon I'll hear ol' winter's song. But I miss you most of all my darling, When autumn leaves start to fall.
Johnny Mercer
#36. Her white skin and those dark brown eyes and the way she always smiled at the world - always, it seemed - as if her face had been designed that way. The smile never went away.
Tim O'Brien
#37. Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.
Ann Patchett
#38. Honey the party went away quickly, but thats the trouble with ticking and talking.
St. Vincent
#39. The butler went away among the abominable plants. The General spoke again, slowly, using his strength as carefully as an out-of-work show-girl uses her last good pair of stockings.
Raymond Chandler
#40. World War II put feminism on hold for a long time; the men went away to fight, a lot of women in those years got jobs both in teaching and in factories - at all social levels - which they enjoyed very much. A lot of them were quite happy during the war.
Margaret Drabble
#41. I've got four nipples. I think I must have been a twin, but the one other went away and left its nipples behind.
Harry Styles
#42. Because it never went away. Nostalgia suggests that feelings are coming back, and they can't do that, when they never went away.
R.K. Lilley
#43. Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.
Maya Banks
#44. If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.
Seanan McGuire
#45. Today, I am blessed to be living a dream. And yet, if it all went away tomorrow, I know I would still have peace.
Tim Howard
#46. I couldn't help loving you if you were ten times his wife; but so long as I went away from you and kept away I could help telling you so.
Kate Chopin
#47. I was out training one black night when I heard a noise. I turned around and saw a leopard. I threw some stones at him and he went away, so I went on my way.
Filbert Bayi
#48. For a moment, frustration clouded his features. He inhaled deeply, and the clouds went away. I miss people, you know? I miss actually living. I want to have a purpose in my life, but I don't. I'm just existing, and I don't know how long I can continue it.
Rose Wynters
#49. She'd known for years that good things didn't last, that loved ones went away and dreams were as easy to reach as the stars in the sky.
Eliza Lloyd
#50. I just remembered something you said when we first talked. That your pain only went away when you started thinking about others." "Not just that," Ayub said. "But when I found God."
Karan Mahajan
#51. The boy was the sun in Coriane's sky. On hard days, he split the darkness. On good days, he lit the world. When Tibe went away to the front, for weeks at a time now that the war ran hot again, Cal kept her safe. Only a few months old and better than any shield in the kingdom.
Victoria Aveyard
#52. But I stuttered as a kid. I went to classes to help it, and it just went away around fourth grade, when I became more aware of how others spoke, I think. But also, growing up in the South, a mumble is a way of speaking.
Channing Tatum
#53. So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#54. When the kite was finished, it refused to fly and kept slamming into the ground as if it wanted to destroy itself, and finally it threw itself in the march. Sophia put it outside Grandmother's door and went away.
Tove Jansson
#55. She went away, she cut me like a knife Hello beautiful thing, maybe you could save my life In just a glance, down here on magic street Loves a fool's dance And I ain't got much sense, but I still got my feet.
Bruce Springsteen
#56. If you didn't let a man mean too much, you wouldn't be too hurt when he went away. But that didn't mean you had to stop living too. Even if you didn't jump off a cliff there were other ways to end life.
Nora Roberts
#57. He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of emotion, 'To your sister I wish all imaginable happiness; to Willoughby, that he may endeavor to deserve her,' took leave, and went away.
Jane Austen
#58. How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away?
Eugenie De Guerin
#59. My town had grown and changed and my friend along with it. Now returning, as changed to my friend as my town was to me, I distorted his picture, muddied his memory. When I went away I had died, and so became fixed and unchangeable. My return caused only confusion and uneasiness.
John Steinbeck
#60. And should men name me dead, I beg ye, say Nay, he but wearied here, and went away.
Kenneth Rand
#61. And when they went away, leaving comfort behind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier people than the hungry little girls who gave away their breakfasts and contented themselves with bread and milk on Christmas morning.
Louisa May Alcott
#62. Breathing, n
You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older, it went away. You could run for miles and it was fine.
Sometimes I worry that this is happening to me in reverse. The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.
David Levithan
#63. She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away.
Libba Bray
#64. People were nicer to me when I was in the arts. I experienced extreme racism in small-town New Zealand. Racism which really went away when I got into the arts.
Cliff Curtis
#65. I think I finally understand why God went away and left the world to destroy itself.
Blake Crouch
#66. Brush those tears from your eyes
And try and realize
That from now on
I'll always be true.
I went away
But I didn't mean to stay
And I will regret it until my dying day.
Edna O'Brien
#67. Sometimes I forget some of the things I've done. I recently recalled that after Watergate I went away by myself to Tahiti for a month, moving from island to island. That was a point in my life where I didn't know what was next.
Diane Sawyer
#68. You went away a little boy in a man's body and you came back the same way, except the man got his hair processed.
Stephen King
#69. I hated these visits, because I kept feeling the visitors measuring my fat and stringy hair against what I had been and what they wanted me to be, and I knew they went away utterly confounded.
Sylvia Plath
#70. What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.
Kurt Vonnegut
#71. I only met Joan Rivers once. But when she passed away, it felt like a part of me went away, too.
Amy Schumer
#72. I didn't think of being an artist until after I went away to boarding school. There were other things to be interested in. And it seemed like a nightmare.
Elizabeth Neel
#73. If the yearning went away, what would we have to offer up to the Lord? Aren't they given to us to offer? It is the control of passion, not it's eradication, that is needed.
Elisabeth Elliot
#74. Jill felt an emptiness open inside of her as she lifted her arm, a sense that something vital was being subtracted from her life. It was always like that when somebody you cared about went away, even when you knew it was inevitable, and it probably wasn't your fault. (341)
Tom Perrotta
#75. Vaclav has said goodnight to Lena every night since the night she went away. Out loud. In a whisper. [...] He filled the words with all his love and care and worry for Lena and launched them out to her, and like homing pigeons, he trusted them to find her.
Haley Tanner
#76. I never really thought I went away because I've written all of the movies and I'm produced them all and certainly provided services about and beyond the average producer on two and three. I was on set most of the films and called action and cut a lot of times and did all that good stuff.
Paul W. S. Anderson
#77. I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.
Octavia E. Butler
#78. I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body, but whatever it was that made her body live.
Confucius
#79. People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother.
Gail Devers
#80. He'd always felt he had a right to exist as a wizard in the same way that you couldn't do proper maths without the number 0, which wasn't a number at all but, if it went away, would leave a lot of larger numbers looking bloody stupid.
Terry Pratchett
#81. No, I'd better sit on to the end,' I went on thinking; 'you would be pleased, my friends, if I went away. Nothing will induce me to go. I'll go on sitting here and drinking to the end, on purpose, as a sign that I don't think you of the slightest consequence.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#82. I didn't play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding school in Sussex that I really got into sport.
Frank Bruno
#83. When I was in high school in Los Angeles, my mother, who was a speech therapist, agreed to stay over the weekend with one of her clients and his little sister while the parents went away on vacation. She brought me along.
Mona Simpson
#84. That was how it always was with Colleen: No matter how sad she felt, there was always this little bit of hope - like a speck of glitter caught in your eyelash - that never went away, no matter what.
Lauren Tarshis
#85. The past never went away and it was not designed to do so.
It would always be there, and it should be acknowledged.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#86. In a sense, 'Twin Peaks' never really went away. They've got a 'Twin Peaks' convention up in Washington every year, and I'm pretty much recognized on a fairly regular basis from 'Twin Peaks,' so I feel like it never really got too far away.
Michael J. Anderson
#87. I would have married her before I went away to war too, just to make sure that someone else didn't.
V.T. Davy
#88. My first challenge was explaining Andover to my friends in Texas. In those days, most Texans who went away to high school had discipline problems. When I told a friend that I was headed to a boarding school in Massachusetts, he had only one question: Bush, what did you do wrong?
George W. Bush
#89. When we were kids, I was in love with you ... That never went away, Hannah." He rested his forehead against mine. "And now that I know you again, I'm even more in love with you.
Samantha Young
#90. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
Henry David Thoreau
#91. Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his pen, those who sat round him intreated and implored; and self-love did not suffer him to suspect that they went away and laughed.
Samuel Johnson
#92. I saw how changing my diet really benefitted my health. After I changed my diet, I was able to get pregnant, and then my eczema went away, and then my migraines went away.
Tia Mowry
#93. If I do get nervous for a game, they usually go away after the first play. For the Super Bowl, it never went away.
Ben Roethlisberger
#94. She missed her mum every day, and it never seemed to get any easier - not until she met Dale. He made her life brighter, making it easier for her to leave her troubled past where it belonged, behind her. The pain never went away , but it faded into the background when she was with him.
Kat Green
#95. I could have loved you once And said it But then you went away And when you came back Love was a forgotten word, Remember?
Marilyn Monroe
#96. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly. Love, truth, beauty, wisdom and consolation against death. Who had said that? someone else who loved books.
Cornelia Funke
#97. While others still slept, He went away to pray and to renew His strength in communion with His Father. He had need of this, otherwise He would not have been ready for the new day. The holy work of delivering souls demands constant renewal through fellowship with God.
Andy Murray
#98. It wasn't that pain grew tolerable or the confusion went away. Instead, it simply became familiar. It became a part of you.
Hugh Howey
#99. In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#100. When I learned to build on my faith, the fear pretty much went away. I'm in a dark basement in a home that's demonically infested - that's not my idea of a fun evening, but again it boils down to your faith. That's your protection. That's the only protection we have.
Ralph Sarchie
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