“Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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Source: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 5<!-- The sense of the ineffable, p. 88 -->
Context: Our concern with environment cannot be reduced to what can be used, to what can be grasped. Environment includes not only the inkstand and the blotting paper, but also the impenetrable stillness in the air, the stars, the clouds, the quiet passing of time, the wonder of my own being. I am an end as well as a means, and so is the world: an end as well as a means. My view of the world and my understanding of the self determine each other. The complete manipulation of the world results in the complete instrumentalization of the self.
I Walk the Line
Song lyrics, Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar (1957)
“When you suffer, I suffer with you. To the end I am close to you.”
Source: Silence
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Source: The End of Nature (1989), p. 7
“"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
“I am here, alone, at the end of the world. I reach out and touch nothing.”.”
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“I am the means and not the end. I am the food and not the life.”
"The Celestial Omnibus" (1911)
Context: I am the means and not the end. I am the food and not the life. Stand by yourself, as that boy has stood. I cannot save you. For poetry is a spirit; and they that would worship it must worship in spirit and in truth.