get on with one's life
move on with one's life

Neither side can gain from it, because in the end one has to call a truce and get on with one's life."

"Everybody wants this to go away," he says, cutting through the cant about healing and closure and getting on with one's life.

But Finkelstein regards his absorption of his mother's outlook - the refusal to put aside a sense of moral outrage in order to get on with one's life - as a virtue.

The main characteristic of irritability - those gruff, monosyllabic responses and short-temperedness are clearly useful here in discouraging social interaction, signalling the desire to be left in peace to get on with one's life.