Top 100 You're Gone Quotes
#1. Life is easy. Live it while you're alive.
Because when you're gone you won't have an opportunity.
Scott Hildreth
#3. 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
#4. Need you to do something for me." "I'll do anything for you. What do you need?" "I need you to teach me how to breathe when you're gone.
Cassia Leo
#5. You can't ever really have enough worth that when you're gone, the spot you left won't close over.
Laura Florand
#6. When you're gone I can go running though the house screaming and no one will ever hear me.
Michael Johnson
#7. I was content before you came into it and I'll be content after you're gone.
Jaci Burton
#8. So close
I can almost touch you
But then you're gone
Like mist around the edge...
Staci Hart
#9. You do not send me to Brooklyn to get a cheesecake and then I come back and you're gone.
Brandy Norwood
#11. Like I don't have anything better to do than think about you every minute you're gone?"
"Every minute?" He smiled a little.
Terry Spear
#12. In TV, when you're doing guest roles, you're gliding into a zone where people are already very comfortable. They go in and go to work every day. You're coming in, and it's a brand-new environment, so you have to get it ... and then you're gone again.
Stephen Root
#13. You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone.
Sugar Ray Robinson
#14. When you're making a movie, you feel like a very small part of something that you really don't have much influence upon. You roll in, you do your thing, and then you're gone.
Jennifer Coolidge
#15. In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
Bill Gates
#17. Film is a very tight little box. If you don't fit in that box, you're gone. Television, there's more room to move around.
George Lucas
#18. You never know when people's dreams are connected to you before you're gone and then there's nothing to do, but watch them die in a different way, slow, limb by limb, system by system.
Marlon James
#19. If you're in the room, I want to be next to you. If you're gone, I think about you. You're who I want to talk to. In a fight, I want you at my back. When we're together the sun is shining. When we're apart, everything is in shades of gray.
James Patterson
#20. He fell silent for a very long time. "But on the other hand, perhaps it's like an on-off switch," he said. "Click! And you're gone." Then he paused again and smiled slightly. "Maybe that's why I never liked to put on-off switches on Apple devices.
Walter Isaacson
#21. Republicans want to be tough and say, 'Illegals, you're gone.' But the answer is a lot more complex than that.
Susana Martinez
#22. You can get rid of the column. It's a little like staying at a hotel; you get used to the shape of the room, and then you're gone. With a novel you move into town and stay for a long time. That's both comforting and terrifying.
Anna Quindlen
#23. When you're gone would you rather have your gravestone say, 'He never missed a meeting.' Or one that said, 'He was a great father.'
Steve Blank
#24. Just make sure you're gone by the time we get to Miles's. It creeps me out to see you sitting in his lap without his permission.
Alyson Noel
#26. I got uncertain from this, I'll be perfect from now on. But all my promises, they're out the window once you're gone. You pack your bags. You say I love you but I cannot stay.
Tegan Quin
#27. The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you're gone.
Ben Stein
#28. I'll stop the whole world, I'll stop the whole world from turning into a monster. Eating us alive., Don't you ever wonder how we survived? But now that you're gone the world is ours." (Song "Monster" by Paramore
Paramore
#29. I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.
Willie Nelson
#30. Material things may satisfy your temporal desires, but none can be taken with you when you're gone. Build your hopes on things eternal !
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#31. I think the tradition of philanthropy is far better developed in the U.S. than in India, as is the whole notion of giving away 50% of your wealth while you are still living and not waiting till you're gone.
Romesh Wadhwani
#32. Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone.
Graham Hawkes
#33. When you're there, I sleep lengthwise.
And when you're gone, I sleep diagonal in my bed.
Phish
#34. What am I supposed to do while you're gone? (Shahara)
Think up ways to kill me while I sleep. (Syn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#35. That wouldn't be a bad way to die...giving off light for millions of years after you're gone.
Jeff Zentner
#36. The movie that you'll be in is a new challenge. Photography is just the shot - one day, two days - and the next day you're gone.
Patrick Demarchelier
#37. When I'm near you, I can feel you in here."
She pressed her hand against her heart.
"And when you're gone, there's an emptiness there. And it hurts. and the pain only goes away when you're close again. Tell me, Zane, tell me what that is."
~Portia
Tina Folsom
#38. Sometimes I hear the echo of your voice in an empty hall and it reminds me that you're gone.
Sylvain Reynard
#39. You know, I might miss some of your witticisms when you're gone, but one thing I won't miss? Your overwhelming sense of melodrama and despair. It's too much even for me.
Richelle Mead
#40. When you're in that upper echelon in wrestling, any movie you take is gonna be a pay cut. If you're gone for three months and they pay you 150 grand, you're getting killed.
Kevin Nash
#41. The first lady in my life, but now you're gone,
I learned through the years to keep carrying on.
Your picture brings me tears and memories,
The way things could be ... and they should be, but they're not.
Afrika Baby Bam
#42. You humans are so fragile. One minute you're fine, the next minute you're gone forever.
Susan Ee
#43. Not just the normal back-and-forth. A prickle in the air, a slicing edge. I couldn't tell if it was about her, or just the day that was it, or if it was the squad. Murder is different. The beat goes faster and harder; the tightrope is higher and narrower. One foot wrong, and you're gone.
Tana French
#44. We'll never feel safe again, and so it's bye-bye innocence. It's been nice knowing you, but you're gone now.
John Marsden
#45. But magic is sometimes all about knowing where the secret door is, and how to open it. With that, you're gone
Michael Cunningham
#46. The second you walk off down that road I'll start telling myself you're gone for good, and why wouldn't you be, and I'll start trying to hate you for it. I will hate you for it. I might even leave here entirely.
Marilynne Robinson
#47. You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.
Tom Waits
#48. You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone.
George W. Bush
#49. People aren't born good or bad. It's the way you live your life that matters and how many people you inspire and empower after you're gone.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#50. People are going to bash you while you're alive, and they're going to bash you when you're gone.
Anthony Hamilton
#51. When you were still here, Isobe thought, death seemed so far removed from me. It was as though you stood with both arms outstretched, keeping death from me. But now that you're gone, suddenly it seems right here in front of me.
Shusaku Endo
#52. What will I do when you're gone?" said Alasdair, with a faltering voice.
Bryeison placed a hand on his shoulder and said, with raging tranquility, "Do what is good and what is right.
Michelle Franklin
#53. Mikki: 'I need you to do something for me.'
Crush: 'I'll do anything for you. What do you need?'
Mikki: 'I need you to teach me how to breathe when you're gone.'
Crush: 'That's a lesson I hope you never have to learn.
Cassia Leo
#54. What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.
Nancy Sinatra
#55. It's not a struggle, but sometimes when you're gone for a month or two, you start to miss your friends. I love acting so much that it fills that gap of being sad about not being able to see my friends.
Willow Shields
#56. I feel like I'm missing something really important when you're gone. So important I don't feel like myself. I've never felt like someone was mine before. But you're mine, Jocelyn. I've known that from the moment we met. And I'm yours. I don't want to be anyone else's, babe.
Samantha Young
#57. In the late 80s, artists could be signed to labels and be nurtured. It wasn't, "We're going to give you one shot, and if you don't measure up, you're gone".
Mary Chapin Carpenter
#58. Now that you're gone, it hit us, super hard on Thanksgiving and Chrismas, this can't be right, yo you heard the track I did called this can't be life
Kanye West
#59. Never understood how much I loved you. I didn't. I know how we talked about our love, how it was this thing that was EVERYTHING to us? I was everything to me, Ever, every last goddamned motherfucking thing, and it's gone. You're gone. And I needed it even more than I knew then, when I had you.
Jasinda Wilder
#60. Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time.
Tracy Kidder
#61. For this moment, nothing matters. Look up into the stars and you're gone.
Chuck Palahniuk
#62. The gifts of an honorable, well-lived life are in those who will miss you once you're gone.
Donald E. Williams Jr.
#63. When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.
Ridley Scott
#64. The best way to be missed when you're gone,
Is to stand for something when you're here
Seth Godin
#65. I'd never really thought past the whole dying-for-the-sake-of-the-world part of things. When you're alive, you don't dwell on how you're going to spend your time once you're dead. You just figure you're gone, and the rest will pretty much take care of itself.
Kami Garcia
#66. Nothing is unfixable, except the fact that you're gone
Rick Riordan
#67. You never know. It's just. It's like. POOF. And you're gone.
John Green
#68. When you work at 'The Daily Show,' you have to give 100 percent, or you're gone. The competitiveness and the minds that work in those offices are incredible.
Nate Corddry
#70. It's only now you're gone I see how you're my reason for doing things. Now I'm a stiltwalker with the stilts removed. My emptied trouser legs flap in the wind and I can't remember how to walk without being precipitously propped.
Sara Baume
#71. You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.
Louis L'Amour
#72. Thank God and Greyhound you're gone.
Roy Clarke
#73. You're gone and you left me. My heart has dissipated. The only thing I can feel is the blood rushing through my veins and the strings that hold my fragile heart together.
Karen Quan
#74. Sometimes you don't know you'll miss a place until you're gone.
Heather Henson
#75. Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
Alice Hoffman
#76. Obviously living on the road is pretty hard to stay in shape while you're gone on the road all the time having to eat out three meals a day, just being physically and mentally exhausted.
Erica Enders-Stevens
#77. Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that's it. Some of them don't have that. They get a couple of releases. If you don't sell two million copies, you're gone, you're out of here.
George Jones
#78. The thing with the piano is, the piano is like percussion almost - well, it is. You have to ... not beat on it, but there is more work involved than a Hammond. With a Hammond, you just lay your hands on the keys, man, and you're gone.
Gregg Allman
#80. Show me now. Make it real. Don't just say some sappy shit when you're gone. Otherwise, it's a load of crap
Chris Kyle
#81. I'll miss you. No matter how short a time you're gone.
Stephenie Meyer
#82. The path you create for yourself is the mark you leave behind when you're gone from this world. All beauty and angst is stopped by the grave. But your words, your laughter, your faith, and spirit, refuse to die with you. They remain in the hearts and minds of those you touched.
Eric Onyango Otieno
#83. I would direct TV. That's a little different. It's more of a contained world as a director. When you're doing a film you get on the rollercoaster, you put the safety bar down and then you're gone. And it's hard. It's hard, too, as a parent, I think, because the hours are so long. It's hard.
Cheryl Hines
#84. I don't mind traveling that much when I can go somewhere and stay there for a while, but touring is different. You rarely see anything. You get there early in the morning and you're resting all day, and you go in and do a sound check, and you do the show, and then bam you're gone.
George Strait
#85. Love never dies. Love will continue. Love keeps on beating when you're gone. Love never dies once it is in you. Life may be fleeting; love lives on! Life may be fleeting! Love lives on...
Andrew Lloyd Webber
#86. The only measure of your worth and your deeds will be the love you leave behind when you're gone.
Fred Small
#87. You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you're gone.
Virat Kohli
#88. Czar, you're the smartest man I know, and I respect you in every way, but that the dumbest thing I have ever heard. You leave your girl a note pinned to the bed, and you're gone for 5 years. I can't wait to meet this woman who stood by your ass for 5 years without one real word from you
Christine Feehan
#89. When you're gone and people remember you, what will they say about you? That you were happy, generous and kind? That you loved big? Or that you were the drunken singer in a rock band?
Sarah Grimm
#90. Love people, not places. Places don't miss you when you're gone.
Marty Rubin
#91. I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.
Yolanda Adams
#92. Do you know what forever love is? Pearl taught me. It's when you love somebody so much that no matter what happens that'll never change. Like even if you're gone. It's still the same. Even if you die. You die, but not the love. Not forever love. Know what I mean?
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#93. The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It's in being missed when you're gone, in doing work that matters to the tribe you choose.
Seth Godin
#94. You on the train and me here and everything emptier now you're gone. Tell me, are you real?
Paula McLain
#95. You are not just shackled to your life while living it, you continue to be stuck with it after you're gone. Or,
Philip Roth
#96. Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.
Charles De Lint
#97. Legacy is not what's left tomorrow when you're gone. It's what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you're here that then happens to live on.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#98. You want to make sure that your purpose is something people can benefit from long after you're gone.
Bob Proctor
#99. The concept of virginity is a social construct. If you're wondering if my commercial value, self-respect, and/or quality of my immortal soul has been affected by things that have gone in or out of my vagina the answer is no.
Christy Leigh Stewart
#100. When you hear the things that people have gone through and realize you've gone through the same, it provides an amazing amount of relief. It gives us hope. And I think that's what we're supposed to get from each other. The
Marc Maron
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