
“In the end? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.”
Source: Dr. Manhattan, Watchmen #12
“In the end? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.”
Source: Dr. Manhattan, Watchmen #12
speech at Lord Mayor’s Luncheon, Mansion House, London, November 10, 1942 : ( partial text http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/EndoBegn.html)
Referring to the British victory over the German Afrika Korps at the Second Battle of El Alamein in Egypt.
The Second World War (1939–1945)
Variant: This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.
Source: Their Finest Hour
“"It's the end of World War I / It's the end of World War II!" - It's the End of the Western”
Lyrics, Solo
“This is not an end, but only a means to an end.”
No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899)
“The end of the world. This is not the end of the world.”
"Unguided Tour", in The New Yorker (31 October 1977), final lines; also in I, Etcetera (1977)
Context: A curious word, wanderlust. I'm ready to go.
I've already gone. Regretfully, exultantly. A prouder lyricism. It's not Paradise that's lost.
Advice. Move along, let's get cracking, don’t hold me down, he travels fastest who travels alone. Let's get the show on the road. Get up, slugabed. I'm clearing out of here. Get your ass in gear. Sleep faster, we need the pillow.
She's racing, he's stalling.
If I go this fast, I won't see anything. If I slow down —
Everything. — then I won't have seen everything before it disappears.
Everywhere. I've been everywhere. I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
Land's end. But there's water, O my heart. And salt on my tongue.
The end of the world. This is not the end of the world.
“There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.”
The Final Declaration (1954)
Context: Whether it manifests as creation or disappears into Oneness of Reality, whether it is experienced as existing and real, or is perceived to be false and nonexistent, illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.