Quotes about end

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“You get towards the end of life - no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of change in that life. You are allowed a long moment of pause, time enough to ask the question: what else have I done wrong?”

“How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash.”

“We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.”

“Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.”

“Don't let two men fall in love with you, girls. It's not the sort of thing that ends well."
-Uncle Charles”

“It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.”

“When you suffer, I suffer with you. To the end I am close to you.”

“It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think.”

“I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end.”

“What could a mortal say to the merciless Fate?
I forced myself to my feet. was the traditional end to a prayer. By the will of Fate.
"" I whispered defiantly.
Bywill.”

“Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.”

“So are we going to continue glaring angrily at each other while we pose in our tough stances? Or use our time to work out a plan that hopefully doesn’t end with our mutual deaths? (Acheron)”

“At the end of the warehouse was a dais constructed from pallets of books: stack of vampire novels, walls of James Patterson thrillers, and a throne from about a thousand copies of something called.”

“But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.”

“Partings are the beginnings of new meetings.

Beginnings happen because there are endings.”

“You need someone to lift your spirits. You need someone to look you in the face and say, "This isn't the end. Don't give up. There is a better place than this. And I'll lead you there.”

“Think positive girl, or the world ends.”

“Real life doesn’t have many happy endings. Why shouldn’t books make up the difference?”

“You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.”

“I am, in the end, what you made me.”

“I don't expect you to understand anything I'm telling you. But I know you will remember this — that nothing good ever ends. If it did, there would be no people in the world — no life at all, anywhere. And the world is full of people and full of wonderful life.”

“It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.”

“There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult—to begin a war and to end it.”

“Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.”

“Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested." The boy remembered an old proverb from his country. It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.”

“Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.”

“.. then when the hurt goes, anger takes its place; when the anger runs out of system, loneliness steps in to take over. it's a never ending circle of emotions; every lost emotion being replaced by another.”

“Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.”

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”

“Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly”

“But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we're born.”

“The stairs ended. I wished I knew the jackass who’d made the staircase so short. I’d throw him down the damn steps so he could count them with his head.”

“This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard, and make a wish.”

“It didn’t matter, anyway. There was only one thing she could ask for, in the end, only one real choice.
She raised her eyes to the Angel’s.
"Jace," she said.”

“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”

“They would place their hands together inside the circle so that they could walk in each other's dreams. It forged a bond that could not be broken. The circle represents love in eternity. For there is no beginning and no end.”

“This was a nightmare scenario for any bodyguard: stuck in the middle of a transparent tube, several miles underwater, with a murdering band of fugitives at one end and an enthralled but still highly skilled police officer at the other.”

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”

“But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.”

“High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.”

“Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying.”

“I swear, I end up feeling empty, like you've taken something out of me and I have to search my body for scars.”

“It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends”

“Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.”

“This was what could happen to you: you could end up this far from where you thought you were going.”

“And then as always, I saw the prayer coming at me.
And, as always, Number 1 killed me! Set me on fire, cooked me to medium rare and then ate me!
I really, really, really hope I haven't just given away the ending of this story.”

“Happiness begins where selfishness ends.”

“My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.”

“Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.”

“Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in.”

“Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.”

“Now it was coming to an end, and it was like he was watching the last flicker of light wink out in the darkness of an endless tunnel.”

“I don't think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn't someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven't, I claim the credit myself.)”

“Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.”

“Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.”

“In the end, a person is only known by the impact he or she has on others.”

“one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started”

“I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.”

“We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.”

“Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone.”

“We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves.”

“They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead end of night.”

“I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.”

“The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.”

“You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.”

“But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.”

“I will call him Small Bob," said Bob. "He is a good monster."

End of discussion. The Titan hefted his spear and they continued marching into the gloom.”

“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”

“A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.”

“In the end, the sum of my vices is all me.”

“If you're lookin' for a helpin' hand, try the one at the end of your arm.”

“Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life”

“The beauty of things must be that they end.”

“The only
thing that matters my goal my reward my beginning my end is the work itself.
My work done my way.
A private personal selfish egotistical motivation. That’s the
only way I function. That’s all I am.”

“Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.”

“Happy endings are a luxury of fiction.”

“The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.”

“The happiness of society is the end of government.”

“The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.”

“No matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.”

“Do you feel disappointed because something you planned didn’t work out If so you can get re-appointed today. In God there are never any dead-ends only detours. Don’t ever give up. Just keep trying until you succeed.”

“The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.”

“Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.”

“There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no beginning, and no difference in it, and, worse of all, no way out”

“Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.”

“Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be.”

“It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.”

“If you weaken, I'll be strong. If you get lost, I'll be your way home. If you despair, I'll bring you joy. I will love you until the end of time.”

“…good teachers are priceless. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it.”

“You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing assunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What you thought was the end is the beginning.”

“I feel like, like pudding," Iggy groaned. "Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain.”

“All music should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the soul's refreshment; where this is not remembered there is no real music but only a devilish hubbub.”

“All is well that ends well”

“And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end”

“In the end, the only one you can ever really please is yourself. How others feel is up to them.”

“A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Women's dieting has become what Yale psychologist Judith Rodin calls a 'normative obsession,' a never-ending passion play given international coverage out of all proportion to the health risks associated with obesity, and using emotive language that does not figure even in discussions of alcohol or tobacco abuse. […] Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”

“I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn't recognize it. It's not that I didn't trust him, becuase I did. It's that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don't know how I could have tried harder.”

“It didn't fit her ideas of who was bad, and who was good, and what was a happy ending, and what wasn't.”

“Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.”