Quotes about end
A collection of quotes on the topic of end, doing, use, life.
Quotes about end
“In the end, finding the Truth will always be tiring in a world full of appearances.”
José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor
Source: Klairet Levy, R. Interview to José Baroja. http://letras.mysite.com/jbar050923.html
Lil Peep (1996–2017) American rapper
Song Life is Beautiful, Album: Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 2
Yuzuru Hanyu (1994) Japanese figure skater (1994-)
CBC interview with Scott Russell
Original: (ja) いろんな方々が僕の演技を見た時に勇気を感じたとか、何か幸せになったとか、そういったことを言ってくれて、それが自分にとってのスケートのモチベーションだと思ってますし、それが僕が今スケートを最後までやり通す意味になってるなって思います。
“Don't feel bad when you meet disappointment, it prepares you for an extraordinary ending”
Cornelius Keagon (1996) Liberian humanitarian aid worker
“Violent delights tend to have violent ends.”
Richard Ramirez (1960–2013) American serial killer
http://www.crimeslab.com/richard-ramirez-the-night-stalker/ Richard Ramirez the Night Stalker - Crimes Lab
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works
James Baldwin book Nobody Knows My Name
"In Search of a Majority: An Address" (Feb 1960); reprinted in Baldwin, "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobody_Knows_My_Name (1961)
“When diplomacy ends, War begins.”
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, The Trumpet of Conscience (1967)
Variant: In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
“Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
Also found with the alternative spelling: Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end<br>Found anonymously on Usenet in 2000 https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.support.divorce/gKiyfcAYreo/jjuc6KTu_NAJ. First known attribution to Lennon is from 2011 https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=stow-ma-apple-barn/45MNk9KiGsY/vaq6pr8hgI0J. <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Variant: Everything is OK in the end. If it's not OK, it's not the end.
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer
Sometimes credited to Jack Kerouac, from his book The Dharma Bums. It is not a quote by Kerouac. It first appeared as a very brief description of The Dharma Bums in Esquire's list of "The 80 Best Books Every Man Should Read" in 2010: http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/g96/80-books/?slide=71. It was later copied by Kilburn Hall in his list of 30 "Books and Authors Every Man Should Read" which he first posted online in 2012: https://kilburnhall.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/the-books-and-authors-every-man-should-read/
Misattributed
Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587) Scottish monarch and queen consort of France
"Mary, Queen of Scots" The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Ed. Elizabeth Knowles. Oxford University Press, 2004. Oxford Reference Online. http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t115.e2074
“Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat.”
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Rosa Parks (1913–2005) African-American civil rights activist
Rosa Parks: My Story, p. 116, Rosa Parks and James Haskins (1992)
Jeffrey Dahmer (1960–1994) American serial killer, cannibal and necrophile
In an interview with Stone Phillips, Dateline NBC (29 November 1994)
Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) British singer, songwriter and record producer
On his relationship with Mary Austin, as quoted in "Rock On Freddie" (1985).
Context: Our love affair ended in tears but a deep bond grew out of it, and that's something nobody can take away from us. It's unreachable … All my lovers ask me why they can't replace her, but it's simply impossible.
I don't feel jealous of her lovers because. of course, she has a life to lead, and so do I. Basically, I try to make sure she's happy with whoever she's with and she tries to do the same for me.
We look after each other and that's a wonderful form of love. I might have all the problems in the world, but I have Mary and that gets me through.
Sukavich Rangsitpol (1935) Thai politician
Education helps reduce social problems and improves quality of life
Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) British singer, songwriter and record producer
As quoted in "I am the Champion" by Nick Ferrari in The Sun (19 July 1985) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_07-19-1985_-_The_Sun.
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) Indian lawyer, statesman, and writer, first Prime Minister of India
As quoted in Building A Life Of Value : Timeless Wisdom to Inspire and Empower Us (2005) by Jason A. Merchey, p. 74
Marie Curie (1867–1934) French-Polish physicist and chemist
Pierre Curie (1923), as translated by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, p. 168
“I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”
Franz Kafka book Letters to Milena
Source: Letters to Milena
Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) British singer, songwriter and record producer
On his relationship with Mary Austin, as quoted in "Rock On Freddie" (1985).
William Shakespeare Julius Caesar
Variant: Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
Source: Julius Caesar
“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.”
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author
Source: His Last Bow: 8 Stories
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter
Source: Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
“The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.”
Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) Marxist revolutionary from Russia
Source: Their Morals and Ours
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Source: I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
“Because in the end you are really alone, whatever you do.”
Marina Abramović (1946) Yugoslav-American artist
“My loyalty to my party ends where my loyalty to my country begins.”
Manuel L. Quezon (1878–1944) president of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944
As quoted in John Gunther's Inside Asia. (1939)
Charbel Makhlouf (1828–1898) Lebanese Maronite monk and saint
Love is a Radiant Light: The Life & Words of Saint Charbel (2019)
“When the rate of change outside exceeds the rate of change inside, the end is in sight.”
Jack Welch (1935) American executive: General Electric CEO
Variant: If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.
“It’s an ill wind as blows nobody no good, as I always say. And All’s well as ends Better!”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
This is a very close paraphrase of a quotation attributed to Carl Buehner in a book published many years earlier - “They may forget what you said — but they will never forget how you made them feel.” quoted in Richard Evans' Quote Book, 1971, Publisher's Press, ASIN: B000TV5WBW, although it is widely (mis)attributed to Angelou in her book Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes (2003) by Bob Kelly, p. 263,
Misattributed
Variant: People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.
“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.”
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
“Hopefully, I’ll be remembered as the person who brought an end to Christianity.”
Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor
As quoted in Spin (August 1996), p. 34.
1990s
Charles Manson (1934–2017) American criminal and musician
Source: Manson in His Own Words: The Shocking Confessions of 'The Most Dangerous Man Alive'
“We're reaching for death
on the end of a candle
We're trying for something
that's already found us”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables
“When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
“Things will be OK in the end. If it's not OK, it's not the end.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
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Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist.
1920s, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
Variant: Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through.
If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present.
Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.
“A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.”
Amos Oz (1939–2018) Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual
Diane Ackerman (1948) Author, poet, naturalist
As quoted in Meditations for Women Who Do Too (1991) by Anne Wilson Schaef
Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…
“It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.”
Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist
Erich von Manstein (1887–1973) German general
To Leon Goldensohn (14 June 1946). Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky book Isis Unveiled
Eliphas Levi
Source: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume I, Chapter XIII
Osamu Tezuka (1928–1989) Japanese cartoonist and animator
Quoted in Helen McCarthy, Osamu Tezuka: God of manga , translated by Fabio Deotto, Edizioni BD, 2010, back cover.
Francis Drake (1540–1596) English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era
Letter to Sir Francis Walsingham, from off Cape Sagres, Portugal (17 May 3067)
“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
This quote is often misattributed to Lincoln. The earliest instance that Quote Investigator could locate was "in an advertisement in 1947 for a book about aging by Edward J. Stieglitz, M.D". The advertisement for “The Second Forty Years” which ran in the Chicago Tribune newspaper read like this: The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years! (Compare 1947 March 16, Chicago Tribune, “How Long Do You Plan to Live?”, [Advertisement for the book "The Second Forty Years" by Edward J. Stieglitz, M.D.], p. C7, Chicago, Illinois. (ProQuest)). Source of misattribution: It’s Not the Years in Your Life That Count. It’s the Life in Your Years - Abraham Lincoln? Adlai Stevenson? Edward J. Stieglitz? Anonymous? by Quote Investigator on July 14, 2012 http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07/14/life-years-count/ <br class="br">To my way of thinking it is not the years in your life but the life in your years that count in the long run. <br class="br">Adlai Stevenson II, Address at Princeton University, "The Educated Citizen" (22 March 1954) http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/mudd/online_ex/stevenson/adlai1954.html. This has also been paraphrased "What matters most is not the years in your life, but the life in your years" and misattributed to Abraham Lincoln and Mae West. <br class="br">Adlai Stevenson II, "If I Were Twenty-One" in Coronet (December 1955). <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Variant: It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
Hamis Kiggundu (1984) Ugandan business magnate, Internet entrepreneur, philanthropist, and author
Quoted from his first book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Success_and_Failure_Based_on_Reason_and_Reality, "Success and Failure Based on Reason and Reality" https://www.amazon.co.uk/SUCCESS-FAILURE-BASED-REASON-REALITY/dp/9970983903/ on Amazon, P.104 (July 2018)
“If you're going through rough times, just stick around, cause everything has to end eventually.”
Mckenna Grace (2006) American child actress
McKenna Grace [citation needed]
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.”
Federico Fellini (1920–1993) Italian filmmaker
Fellini on Fellini (1976) edited by Anna Keel and Christian Strich; translated by Isabel Quigly.
Variant: There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
“Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
“The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Book 4, chapter 1. Often misquoted as "The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end".
Books, Coningsby (1844), Henrietta Temple (1837)
“If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
On voluntary euthanasia as quoted in People's Daily Online (14 June 2006) http://english.people.com.cn/200606/14/eng20060614_273839.html
