“It all ends in tears anyway.”
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Jack Kerouac 266
American writer 1922–1969Related quotes
“If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
It ends:”
Misattributed
This is a variant or paraphrase of The Paradoxical Commandments, by Kent M. Keith, student activist, first composed in 1968 as part of a booklet for student leaders, which had hung on the wall of Mother Teresa's children's home in Calcutta, India, and have sometimes become misattributed to her. The version posted at his site http://www.paradoxicalcommandments.com begins:
Misattributed
“Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.”
As quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1987) by Robert Andrews, p. 60
“Scarcely a tear to shed;
Hardly a word to say;
The end of a Summer's day;
Sweet Love is dead.”
An Evening; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Lines Written In Dejection http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1524/, st. 1
The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
Context: When have I last looked on
The round green eyes and the long wavering bodies
Of the dark leopards of the moon?
All the wild witches, those most noble ladies,
For all their broom-sticks and their tears,
Their angry tears, are gone.
