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Life Goes On Quotes

By Alan Reiner | Jul 19, 2024 | 50 quotes

Loss, setbacks, and unwanted change have a way of making the world feel like it has stopped. But it keeps turning, and these quotes address that stubborn fact with honesty and, often, with gentleness. They acknowledge pain without dismissing it, while also pointing toward the simple truth that forward is the only available direction.

These words are well suited for sympathy cards, social media reflections, journal entries, or quiet moments of self-talk after a hard stretch. Scroll through and find the ones that offer some comfort.

  1. “Life goes on, and one should look ahead and not backward.”

    Sonali Bendre
  2. “Life goes on and life is full of setbacks. You have to fight, that's all.”

    Seve Ballesteros
  3. “It's never nice to lose someone close to you; unfortunately, life goes on, and we have to make peace with it and move on.”

    Francois Hougaard
  4. “Life goes on, and we have to keep coming up with fresh ideas.”

    Max Cavalera
  5. “Mistakes do happen and life goes on.”

    Sourav Ganguly
  6. “So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.”

    William Morris
  7. “As life goes on, life just gets harder.”

    B. J. Penn
  8. “It's depression. You can't put it into words. You get stuck and time passes by. I'm stood there on the edge of a cliff, can't go back and can't go forward. Days go by. I'm still in the same place. Everyone else's life goes on, but you're stuck. You try and try and try and I don't know how, but you came out of it eventually.”

    Kell Brook
  9. “Life goes on if you're one of the lucky ones.”

    Judy Blume
  10. “I accept I am going to miss playing because it's such an important part in my life. It's going to be difficult to fill that gap. Life goes on.”

    Xabi Alonso
  11. “I would say people remember me from 'Life Goes On' more than anything.”

    Kellie Martin
  12. “Life goes on after a breakup.”

    Andi Dorfman
  13. “The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.”

    Patrick Swayze
  14. “We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then… life goes on.”

    Sylvester Stallone
  15. “Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers.”

    Susan Lucci
  16. “In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.”

    Halle Berry
  17. “Back in those days, a parent looked at the disability and didn't see the ability. 'Life Goes On' showed that people with a disability can be included. Just give them a chance and let them learn. That's what the show was trying to teach.”

    Chris Burke
  18. “I'm realizing for the first time, your life goes on while you're trying to pursue this career. I saw my career as everything. But you have this life, too. Living your life fully, you come to know yourself better. You'll find the place for it.”

    Nicholas D'Agosto
  19. “You learn if you mind stay open. And once you can't learn no more, your mind must be closed. Life goes on and you keep growing, you know?”

    Bobby Womack
  20. “If you don't like me, life goes on, you know what I mean? But I hope you do like me. Because I think that in addition to being pushy, I'm nice.”

    Christine Quinn
  21. “As life goes on, we accrue more and more loseable objects. Providence dictates that objects that are too large to lose, such as houses, always come with tiny little keys, specially designed to give you the slip.”

    Craig Brown
  22. “We were the first generation of rock & roll, but life goes on.”

    Ian Gillan
  23. “Yes, I have cancer and it might not go away, but I can still have a future because life goes on.”

    Kris Carr
  24. “Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.”

    Daisy Ridley
  25. “Shows have asked a lot of actors to take cuts. Shows are going off the air. So okay, life goes on.”

    Austin Peck
  26. “Away from football, life is not just football. People do not see it how life goes on for us off the field.”

    Gonzalo Higuain
  27. “To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.”

    Fat Joe
  28. “I would love to have a complete family. I'd love to do it all at once. I'd love to be able to give to my children what my parents were able to give to me. And if I'm blessed to be able to do that, fantastic. If I'm not, then life goes on. You have to do the best you can. I do think we have to bring the family back; I do.”

    Michael Ealy
  29. “I don't really get embarrassed a lot because I feel like life goes on. I mean, I fell on stage one time; like, I tripped one time. My voice cracked… That's pretty embarrassing.”

    Jay Park
  30. “To me, it's not the end of the world if I end up not being with someone. I love romance. I love sex. I love men's company, but I don't feel I have to be married. Men are a wonderful part of life, like chocolate. But my life goes on whether they're there or not.”

    Jerry Hall
  31. “I was in this sheltered little environment where, basically, all my high school experience was in 'Life Goes On,' and everyone told me where to go, what to do, how to think - I never had to do anything for myself.”

    Kellie Martin
  32. “Having your father to help you to get back up is good, but you need to get up by yourself and walk alone. Life goes on.”

    Lyoto Machida
  33. “Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.”

    V. S. Naipaul
  34. “Here's my advice to my brown friends: The next time you're on an airplane in the U.S., just speak your mother tongue. That way, no one knows what you're saying. Life goes on.”

    Maz Jobrani
  35. “We see North Koreans as automatons, goose-steeping at parades, doing mass gymnastics with fixed smiles on their faces - but beneath all that, real life goes on with the same complexity of human emotion as anywhere else.”

    Barbara Demick
  36. “I know life goes on if you make a big bet and you lose. But if you don't give yourself the best chance of winning, you're going to kick yourself tomorrow.”

    James Holzhauer
  37. “Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.”

    Norman Lear
  38. “My maw died when I was 20. You tune into the radio or the telly and life goes on. Things keep on happening. The world doesnae stop.”

    Limmy
  39. “I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.”

    Chad Lowe
  40. “I love men's company, but I don't feel I have to be married. Men are a wonderful part of life, like chocolate. But my life goes on whether they're there or not.”

    Jerry Hall
  41. “I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story.”

    Elizabeth McCracken
  42. “Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.”

    Brett Favre
  43. “People moan about Twitter, people being rude and trolling. Just turn it off. Life goes on.”

    Tom Parker Bowles
  44. “My father was the youngest of seven, and nobody lived to be 60. And so we were always sitting shiva in my house, and my father would say, 'Life goes on.'”

    Judy Blume
  45. “Indeed, our British friends have decided to leave us - which is very sad for all of us - but life goes on, and the European Union as well goes on.”

    Federica Mogherini
  46. “As with real families, my fictional family on 'Life Goes On' had its ups and downs, and as part of the fictional downers, the actors were often called to cry on cue. This absolutely terrified me, because I was a pretty happy kid who didn't have much to cry about.”

    Kellie Martin
  47. “I'm not a movie star, but I've been an actress forever, and the first time I went on a date with my husband, he said to me, 'So I hear you're an actress. I've never seen anything you've done.' We were like, oh gosh, 21 when I met him, and I laughed, because I'd done 'Life Goes On,' and 'Christy,' and I mean, I'd been working forever.”

    Kellie Martin
  48. “At college - I went to Yale, and everybody's very smart, and everybody has their thing that makes them special, and people at Yale would pretend they didn't recognize me. Only after they'd had a couple of drinks would they start singing the 'Life Goes On' theme song.”

    Kellie Martin
  49. “You can never criticize a monumental musician like Jon Lord or Richie Blackmore, or the part they played in the group, but life goes on.”

    Ian Gillan
  50. “We want to do something important in the World Cup, and hopefully I have the chance. If not, well, life goes on, I'll keep working the same way and supporting my teammates.”

    Carlos Vela

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