moving on Quotes

“He felt that he was leaving behind him his chance of being a certain type of artist. It seemed so much more important to be a certain sort of man.”

“In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.”

“Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.”

“After all, guilt and remorse were worthless emotions, weren’t they? Well, I knew they weren’t; but I had no time for them. Forward motion; that was the key. Run as fast as you can and don’t look back.”

“And he made a promise to himself: if he lived through the war, he was going to find an isolated farm somewhere and spend the remainder of his life in peace and quiet.”

“Perhaps for some men a period of violence and destruction at one time attracts them to look for something creative as a balance in another part of life.”

“I want to confess everything, to hand over the guilt and mistake and anger to someone else.”

“It wasn’t my fault. He hurt me. It wasn’t my fault. And I’m not going to let it kill me. I can grow.”

″...she was a woman with a million happy memories, who knew what it was like to experience true love and who was ready to experience more life, more love and make new memories.”

“There are worse sins in the world than learning to be happy again.”

“You whispered to me not long ago that you couldn’t go on alone. You can, Holly.”

″... I am just a chapter in your life, there will be many more. Remember our wonderful memories, but please don’t be afraid to make some more.”

“Going back to the Home was out … It’s not like it was when I first got there, shucks, half the folks that run it don’t even tell you their name and don’t remember yours unless you’re in trouble all the time or getting ready to move out. ”

“Now it was time for him to move out. She wasn’t there, so he must go for both of them. It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength. ‘As for the terrors ahead—for he did not fool himself that they were all behind him—well, you just have to stand up to your fear and not let it squeeze you white. Right, Leslie?’ ‘Right.‘”

“I cannot bear the weight of my past. Yet I cannot throw away the key to your cupboard.”

“You have to let go... you have to put it behind you...just get on with your life.”

″... our late adventures have disgusted me with life and with the sword...

″‘You are young,’ replied Athos, ‘and your bitter recollections have time to be changed into sweet remembrances.‘”

“When a mother dies, a daughter grieves. And then her life moves on. She does, thankfully, feel happiness again.”

“The fantasy never got beyond that—I didn’t let it—and though the tears rolled down my face, I wasn’t sobbing or out of control. I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be.”

“The only thing more dangerous than moving forward was standing still.”

“Getting to the next level always requires ending something, leaving it behind, and moving on. Growth itself demands that we move on.”

“Tonight will ring in a wonderful new year for me. How humbly grateful I am to be rid of the old one.”

“Seas move away, why not lovers?”

“People go to the movies instead of moving! Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them having them! Yes, until there’s a war. That’s when adventure becomes available to the masses!”

“Over the past few years, I’ve wanted to move on, I’ve wanted to take hold of something I couldn’t reach. What that is, I have no idea.”

“You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it? There are many formulas. One year for every year you dated. Two years for every year you dated. It’s just a matter of will power: The day you decide it’s over, it’s over. You never get over it.”

“Everywhere we go and move on and change, something’s lost--something’s left behind. You can’t ever quite repeat anything, and I’ve been so yours, here--”

“After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.”

“And one thing always remained as I moved on. I saved a little bit of love just in case you would ever return home.”

“You got to where you are in your life right now by moving along the path of least resistance.”

“I had only to break it, and I was rid of it forever.”

“All of the time Juana had been trying to rescue something of the old peace, of the time before the pearl. But now it was gone, and there was no retrieving it. And knowing this, she abandoned the past instantly.”

“But still, here are the words Despereaux Tilling spoke to his father. He said, ‘I forgive you, Pa.‘”

“They took the train to the end of the line and picked up jobs out there, working on the railways. Then people started asking questions and it was time to move on.”

“We were both very happy, and lived happy, happy ever after.”

“Mom didn’t get better. But I will.”

“Life moves on and so should we.”

“The odd thing was that, after he had entered the paint shop, he had felt as if a heavy wave of sadness had suddenly been lifted from out of him. Memories of her didn’t seem as painful as he had imagined.”

“The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.”

“Before starting to work for Gawain, Derek secretly cemented the chink in the floor of the treasury. It wasn’t really necessary, but it made him feel better. He felt it put an end to the whole episode- the theft, the trial, its aftermath.”

“There’s not much point making friends because I expect to be moving on soon.”

“Whether we sleep or wake, the vast machinery of the universe still goes on.”

“You can have compassion without forgiving. There are many ways to move on, and pretending to feel a certain way isn’t one of them.”

“Now she’s sold, and gone, and done with. So don’t ask any more questions. They won’t change it. She’s gone, so that’s that- and let’s say no more about it.”

“The world keeps moving, no matter what happens to you.”

“I never got to fall out of love. I just had to move on.”

“It’s a perfect description. I never got to fall out of love. I just had to move on.”

“The caravans bark but the dogs more on.”

Ending is better than mending.

“it will not be worth your while to wait—there will be nothing for you here.”

Why shouldst thou tarry so much as one other day in the torments that have so gnawed into thy life!—that have made thee feeble to will and to do!—that will leave thee powerless even to repent!

Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don’t let it spoil you, for it’s wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can’t have the one you want.

“Die? oh, no,” he exclaimed—“not die now, after having lived and suffered so long and so much! Die? yes, had I died years ago; but now to die would be, indeed, to give way to the sarcasm of destiny. No, I want to live; I shall struggle to the very last; I will yet win back the happiness of which I have been deprived.”

I whistled and made nothing of going. But the village was very peaceful and quiet, and the light mists were solemnly rising, as if to show me the world, and I had been so innocent and little there, and all beyond was so unknown and great, that in a moment with a strong heave and sob I broke into tears. It was by the finger-post at the end of the village, and I laid my hand upon it, and said, “Good-bye, O my dear, dear friend!”

The crisp air, the sunlight, the movement on the river, and the moving river itself,—the road that ran with us, seeming to sympathise with us, animate us, and encourage us on,—freshened me with new hope.

“Come here, then. Let’s forget about all that old stuff, shall we. Come and give me a bit of attention.” The two women immediately did as he said, hurrying over to him where they kissed him and hugged him and then they quickly finished their letters.