Going On Quotes

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― Albert Camus

“Take a shower. Wash away every trace of yesterday. Of smells. Of weary skin. Get dressed. Make coffee, windows open, the sun shining through. Hold the cup with two hands and notice that you feel the feeling of warmth. 
 You still feel warmth.
Now sit down and get to work. Keep your mind sharp, head on, eyes on the page and if small thoughts of worries fight their ways into your consciousness: threw them off like fires in the night and keep your eyes on the track. Nothing but the task in front of you. 
Get off your chair in the middle of the day. Put on your shoes and take a long walk on open streets around people. Notice how they’re all walking, in a hurry, or slowly. Smiling, laughing, or eyes straight forward, hurried to get to wherever they’re going. And notice how you’re just one of them. Not more, not less. Find comfort in the way you’re just one in the crowd. Your worries: no more, no less.

Go back home. Take the long way just to not pass the liquor store. Don’t buy the cigarettes. Go straight home. Take off your shoes. Wash your hands. Your face. Notice the silence. Notice your heart. It’s still beating. Still fighting. Now get back to work.
Work with your mind sharp and eyes focused and if any thoughts of worries or hate or sadness creep their ways around, shake them off like a runner in the night for you own your mind, and you need to tame it. Focus. Keep it sharp on track, nothing but the task in front of you.
Work until your eyes are tired and head is heavy, and keep working even after that.

Then take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes.
Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more. 
You’re doing just fine.
You’re doing fine.

I’m doing just fine.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine

“Nothing is permanent," Magnus said. "I know this from experience. But you can get new things. You can meet new people. You can go on.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Rise of the Hotel Dumort

“I used to be fine in my loneliness
but something
or someone
snapped me out of it
and showed me company. What it’s like to feel at home,
and so the going on by myself part wasn’t as easy anymore.
Seasons happened and things got colder and harder and suddenly I found myself smoking circles in the air
by myself in the snow
and I was not okay.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“Interesting how life goes on in spite of itself.”
― Maria V. Snyder, Fire Study

“The best way out is always through.”
― Tammara Webber, Here Without You

“The last time is the one that gets you, because it leads right into the first time. Nowhere to go. But you go on anyway. The more you go on the more you stop thinking about going on, because you’re thinking about it all the time. Everything backs up. It gnaws here on the edge, looking back I order not to look forward.”
― Rudolph Wurlitzer, Nog

“When bad strikes, most likely you will not get an answer when you ask, “Why?”
Your strength must come from having faith that someday the answer will come and then it will all make sense.”
― Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

“Life doesn’t go on. It goes nowhere except away. Death goes on. Going on is what death does for a living. The secret to surviving in the universe is to be dead.”
― Peter Schjeldahl

“Risa: I thought I could go on being normal without Otani, but I just can't! I'm just... I'm just no good without Otani.”
― Koizumi Risa

“It took time before we even realized what was going on. When we did, no one could believe it was actually happening.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“we are all happy and young and toothless
it is the same as old age
the only thing to do is simply continue
is that simple
yes, it is simple because it is the only thing to do
can you do it
yes, you can because it is the only thing to do”
― Frank O'Hara

“This inner journey is the strangest of all. We study and practice everything, to get and realize nothing. It takes a lot of nothing, to be anything. It takes a lot of going no where, to be anywhere. And being anything or anywhere are still essentially nothing.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Tomorrow still exists
of course, but it is
a dark and dead thing
for it does not contain you.”
― Edward Lee

“I am still able to lift my feet to walk.”
― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

“Going on inspite of challenges is what shifts the destiny.”
― Hiral Nagda

“Legends don't quit. Never. Period.”
― Hiral Nagda

“In the second month of the Lahaina disaster, it was clear shady things were going on within the Maui government.”
― Steven Magee

“Van Gogh's last words were,

"This sadness will last forever."

He, who knew the dark. He, who nonetheless painted the stars within it.

And me, who knows it too. And me, who has nonetheless punched my fair share of holes within it and shone a flashlight through them and called them stars.

The sadness will not last forever.

I know because every day I bloody my knuckles in the pursuit of something I might see by.”
― Kristina Mahr

“Van Gogh's last words were,

"The sadness will last forever."

He, who knew the dark. He, who nonetheless painted the stars within it.

And me, who knows it too. And me, who has nonetheless punched my fair share of holes within it and shone a flashlight through them and called them stars.

The sadness will not last forever.

I know because every day I bloody my knuckles in the pursuit of something I might see by.”
― Kristina Mahr

“What the holy shoo-loo is going on?”
― Neil Mach, Moondog and the Dark Arches