Going Away famous quotes
05-15-2025
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Things go away to return, brightened for the passage
-- A. R. Ammons -
Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away?
-- A.M. Homes -
It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.
-- Aasif Mandvi -
This is what it feels like to care about someone who doesn't feel the same. I'd only known how it felt to love someone who loved me just as fiercely. I'd never known rejection. I'd never wanted someone who didn't want me. The longing didn't go away with rejection.
-- Abbi Glines -
Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.
-- Adam Ant -
Ask yourself: If I can't avoid it, change it, or make it go away, what if I changed my response to it? What if I decided to stop letting it bother me?
-- Al Siebert -
Rock'n'roll will never go away completely because it's so fundamentally attractive.
-- Alex Turner -
There will always be someone being picked on at school, and it's not going to go away
-- Alexa Vega -
You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course, the fault wasn't hers at all: it lay in language. Every language assumes a centrality, a fixed and settled point to go away from and come back to, and what my grandmother was looking for was a word for a journey which was not a coming or a going at all; a journey that was a search for precisely that fixed point which permits the proper use of verbs of movement.
-- Amitav Ghosh -
When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum.
-- Amy Lowell -
Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you say. It's not going away.
-- Andy Serkis -
There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to.
-- Antonya Nelson -
What's funny about that office is it's entirely dependent on how close you are to the president, because the president decides what your role will be. If you get on with the president, that's great; if you fall out with the president, power can go away.
-- Armando Iannucci -
Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.
-- Arnold Rothstein -
Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening.
-- Arthur Hertzberg -
I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of selfish.
-- Ashley Greene -
Love does not terrify me. But the going away of it does. I have been made terribly aware of how everything can be wrenched away from you and your life torn apart. If I had known very secure nights all my life, if I had never seen or felt the fear of being tortured or deported or blown up into a million pieces, then I would not fear it.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
Strange, that I came into the world with nothing, and now I am going away with this stupendous caravan of sin! Wherever I look, I see only God... I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.
-- Aurangzeb -
On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.
-- Avi Arad -
When things are very real and honest, they don't go away.
-- Avril Lavigne -
This innocence Is brilliant I hope that it will stay This moment Is perfect Please don't go away I need you now And I'll hold on to it Don't you let it pass you by
-- Avril Lavigne -
It is often thought that the Buddha's doctrine teaches us that suffering will disappear if one has meditated long enough, or if one sees everything differently. It is not that at all. Suffering isn't going to go away; the one who suffers is going to go away.
-- Ayya Khema -
I have you. A lover and a friend. You are everything I need. You are the sun, the air I breathe. Without you, life wouldn't be the same. Please don't ever go away. And if you go, then don't forget to take me with you.
-- Basia -
There's always been a need for horror fiction, though--ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the beginning of recorded literature--and while commercially the field may have its ups and downs, it will never go away. Hell, look at the Bible: gods, devils, ghosts, witches, giants, resurrections. That's one big horror story. And it's the most popular book on the planet.
-- Bentley Little -
A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.
-- Betsey Johnson -
Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away... a bigger fool than when he came to it.
-- Bill Vaughan -
Anything that can be done to a rat can be done to a human being. And we can do most anything to rats. This is a hard thing to think about, but it's the truth. It won't go away because we cover our eyes. THAT is cyberpunk.
-- Bruce Sterling -
I'm with people all the time so I often go away on my own.
-- Bruno Tonioli -
I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers.
-- Bryan Adams -
For me, if somebody tells me to go away, that is an opportunity: for me to give the person a better life, to realize where not to be, and to see what could be even better than being with that person I love.
-- Byron Katie -
Funny always makes the bad things go away.
-- Candace Bushnell -
The things we saw happen in the last four years of the Obama administration would all, or many of them, go away under a President Gingrich. It would be a huge setback,
-- Candace Gingrich-Jones -
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
-- Carl Sandburg -
Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.
-- Carol Burnett -
It's a very worthy cause. This should happen, and I do believe that tenacity counts. Not going away matters.
-- Carole King -
If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented.
-- Charles Dudley Warner -
The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.
-- Charles Lamb -
I knew if I got loaded I was going away for a while. People would say, Oh, you're just sober because you're on probation.
-- Charlie Sheen -
I've had a long career and I want to continue to have a long career. The way to do that is not to go away.
-- Chris Cornell -
Rebellion is not going to go away...What has been unleashed, I think, can't be stopped...The importance of continuing acts of resistance is that it keeps this narrative alive...We speak a fundamental truth about this system that terrifies them.
-- Chris Hedges -
Climate change and dependence on foreign oil are problems that won't go away on their own. Tabling plans to deal with them doesn't make it easier for companies to plan and invest; it makes it harder.
-- Christina Romer -
I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing.
-- Christopher Meloni -
Go away. I told you, I'm not interested." She looked from his lap to his face. "Your nose is growing too.
-- Cindy Gerard -
Abortion is a right I feel must not go away, and I feel like people aren't mobilizing so much because it's so complicated and it's difficult to understand.
-- Cynthia Nixon -
Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
I was a good 30 pounds overweight throughout high school, and it wasn't until I was going away to college that I really wanted to make sure I was doing everything possible to feel as confident as I could.
-- Daphne Oz -
I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn't go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the flu!
-- Daryl Hall -
Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.
-- Dave Grohl -
Now go away, or I'll get my friends the Bats to bite you.
-- David Clement-Davies -
Freedom. It's like no constraints, an opening, and then barriers going away and lifting and breaking and experimentation and...it's like attempting for something.
-- David Lynch -
She sat one of the fluffy cats in my lap and stuffed the other down my shirt. She turned and left. 'There,' said the large man. 'The kittens will make your sad go away.
-- David Wong -
The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.
-- Davy Jones -
Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors.
-- Dean Koontz -
Kiss is like a smell in a paper bag, they just never go away
-- Dee Snider -
About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared.
-- Deke Slayton -
The little things that you saw with a child’s eye and that will never go away. That’s what consciousness is all about.
-- Derek Mahon -
For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.
-- Diane Lane -
To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.
-- Domenico Cieri -
The need for empowering investors to have information on the way their own money is invested is not going away.
-- Donald Luskin -
I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're the relatives everyone wishes would go away. They're the embarrassments to decorum and good taste.
-- E. L. Doctorow -
The spell was simple and I'd said half of it before she even figured out that it was a spell. Since you like bubbles so, In a bubble you must go. In that bubble you will stay Till your bubbles go away. Sound can't pass from inside out Even if you scream or shout. If you want to be set free, End your spell, that's the key
-- E.D. Baker -
I think the PC will continue to be around for a long, long time to come. We see a new range of products evolving around the PC, but it's not going away.
-- Eckhard Pfeiffer -
If it's a band I like, I just hope they will survive it all. And I'll admit that if it's crap music, I hope they won't and it'll go away. Simply because there are too many great bands who should be heard in their place.
-- Eddie Vedder -
Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.
-- Edward Albee -
All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.... You can describe all the externals of a performance - everything, in fact, but what really constitutes its core. Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is what's left over after you've explained everything else.
-- Edward Gorey -
Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.
-- Edward Gorey -
It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.
-- Eileen Caddy -
We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song.
-- Elizabeth Fishel -
He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance that would not go away.
-- Elizabeth Strout -
... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.
-- Elizabeth von Arnim -
I only have have one question, scraping the inside of me. Answer it, and I will stumble back into her shadow, shut my mouth, never ask again. I've tried to ignore it, but it won't go away. It haunts my dreams, chases me through every single day, and I don't have the strength to turn around, face it down. So please tell me and I swear I'll never ask again. It's in your power to make it go away, and all you have to do is tell me why you love her more.
-- Ellen Hopkins -
If u don't like warriors then i don't like u so go away u stalkers... GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
-- Erin Hunter -
Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.
-- Erin McCarthy -
I know that I want to concentrate more on my inside-pretty than my outside-pretty, because thats gonna go away. But if your inside is beautiful, it never wears away. The light always shows on the outside if you are striving to be good inside.
-- Erykah Badu -
What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.
-- Eugene Gendlin -
I loved my time on All My Children. That show was a family to me. I am so sad that daytime is slowly fading away. I owe so much to daytime. I learned so much about my craft and I made so many wonderful friends there and I am so sad that it is all going away.
-- Eva LaRue -
Ignoring facts does not make them go away.
-- Fran Tarkenton -
You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.
-- Frank Hall Crane -
And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.
-- Frank Langella -
I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family...
-- Frank McCourt -
It doesn't take any effort to dream. It's a lot easier than looking at the problems in front of you and figuring out what you're going to do about them. But all you're doing is putting your problems up on a shelf for later, right? That doesn't make them go away.
-- Fuyumi Ono -
Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer a Second Assistant Librarian of the Great Library of the Clayr. Those days were gone, vanished with everything else that had defined her previous existence and identity.
-- Garth Nix -
Did you think that I forgot you? Did you think I'm going away? Did you feel like I was don't care for you? No. I am here to stay.
-- Gary Lawyer -
Right is that which is not your invention. It is already there. If you go away from it you are wrong, if you come...
-- Gautama Buddha -
If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.
-- Gayle Forman -
If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change.
-- George Clooney -
For me, personally, when I'm afraid of something - when you're afraid of something, normally you try to go away, you try to avoid it. Instead of avoiding it, to overcome your fear, I believe you need to embrace it.
-- Georges St-Pierre -
How can I ever miss you when you never go away?
-- Gloria Jones -
If a guy truly likes you, but for personal reasons he needs to take things slow, he will let you know that immediately. He won’t keep you guessing, because he’ll want to make sure you don’t get frustrated and go away.
-- Greg Behrendt -
I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
-- Harlan Coben -
When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
-- Harold MacMillan -
I dont make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
-- Ian K. Smith -
Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.
-- Iris Johansen -
When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.
-- Isak Dinesen
