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Life Goes On

Meaning

life goes on

Saying used to encourage someone to keep moving despite hardship
It might've been one hell of a week, but hey, life goes on. You gotta get back up each time it throws you down.

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Examples

You can't have an ending. It's impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You're never at the end until you die. E. Lockhart

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday. Agatha Christie

Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left? Haruki Murakami

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

Shows have asked a lot of actors to take cuts. Shows are going off the air. So okay, life goes on. Austin Peck

Life goes on and the truth changes; this just happens to be the way life is. What was once true is often no longer true just a little while later. Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation. Brad Blanton

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