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“I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.”

Patricia Highsmith book Strangers on a Train

Source: Strangers on a Train

Guy, Silence, Happiness

“Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

“I try to have reasonably happy endings because I would hate any child to be cast down in gloom and despair; I want to show them you can find a way out of it.”

Jacqueline Wilson (1945) novelist

Hate, Way, Despair, Happiness

“I know that happy things and fun things eventually come to an end. But things that are scary and sad come to an end too… they always do. Even if you can't always believe that, please don't give up. Live.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 21

Sadness, Happiness

“Some books are lies frae end to end,
And some great lies were never penn'd…”

Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist

Death and Dr. Hornbook, st. 1 (1787)
Variant: Some books are lies frae end to end.

Books

“If you decide to just go with the flow, you'll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big pile of sludge and a life of unhappiness. You'll end up doing what everyone else is doing.”

Sean Covey (1964) author; business executive

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide

Life

“I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are interested in their own sexuality and they've always reflected it in their art. End of story.”

Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic

People, Art

“The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Someone Like You

Girl

“What you have to decide… is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Life, Truth

“I’d be glad of a retaliation that wouldn’t recoil on myself; but treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Isabella Linton (Ch. XVII).
Source: Wuthering Heights (1847)

“There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all
animals with only survival instincts.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Night Play

Animals

“We fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice.”

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist

Hunger, Justice, Fight

“I remember discussions withwhich went through many hours till very late at night and ended almost in despair; and when at the end of the discussion I went alone for a walk in the neighbouring park I repeated to myself again and again the question:?”

Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976) German theoretical physicist

Question, Despair, Night

“What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,' but a vague and fuzzy optimism that somehow things may work out in the end.”

N.T. Wright (1948) Anglican bishop

Source: Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church

Hope, Optimism, Dead

“That's the way it ends. The thin edge of the wedge.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Way

“Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end”

Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher

People

“I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

Life, Thinking, Happiness

“And right when your song ended I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner," Peeta says. "Then for the next eleven years, I tried to work up the nerve to talk to you.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“I know beginnings, I know endings too,
and life-in-death, and something else
I'd rather not recall just now.”

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet

"This Cruel Age has deflected me..." (1944)
Source: The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Life, Death

“Never would forever, with all its meanings, be so clear and distinct as in the true, guaranteed end of the world.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

World

“The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Civilization

“It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.”

Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948) Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Men

“you got to figure out which end of the needle you’re gon be, the one that’s fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth.”

Sue Monk Kidd (1948) Novelist

Source: The Invention of Wings

Clothes

“In the end, there is no end.”

Robert Lowell (1917–1977) Poet

“This one’s easy to use. The pointy end goes into their body. (Liza)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dream Chaser

“And you know," Jeanne said, looking down at Sylvia with her hands on her hips, "that's how I want to go. Taking my own way out… and totally pissing everybody off at the end.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Black Dawn

Way

“Not every end is the goal. The end of a melody is not its goal, and yet if a melody has not reached its end, it has not reached its goal.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

Variant: The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.

“Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

Nature, Tree, Time

“The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Feeling

“Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing.”

Hélène Cixous (1937) French philosopher and writer

Source: Coming to Writing and Other Essays

Life

“I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.”

Drew Barrymore (1975) American actress, director and producer

Life

“Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.”

Darren Shan (1972) Irish writer of English-language fiction under pen name, real name Darren O'Shaughnessy

Life, People, Way, Evil

“I know that if I ever have the audacity to blame fate or God for holding a gun to my temple, I also have the wherewithal to remind myself that if I end up with a hole in my head, I was the one who pulled the trigger.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

God, Fate

“Don't think of death as an ending. Think of it as a really effective way of cutting down your expenses.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Death, Way, Thinking

“For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.”

James C. Collins (1958) American business consultant and writer

Source: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

Life

“If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

Life, Sadness, Feeling

“It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

Source: Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's

Law, Food, Sea

“Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility of childhood, and ending with an absolute trust in the national currency.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

Childhood

“Eventually, we all end up alone.”

Ally Carter Out of Sight, Out of Time

Source: Out of Sight, Out of Time

“But in the end she merely shrugged, knowing at the very least it would be interesting. Knowing, in her gut, it might just be the beginning.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Double Crossed: A Spies and Thieves Story

“So let me end with the wish that you find the same kind of happyiness, and laughter, and love, that I have found, and that you have the wisdon to make them last.”

Sherwood Smith (1951) American fantasy and science fiction writer

Source: Court Duel

Love, Laughter

“what you have to decide, is how you want your life to be. if your forever was ending tomorrow, would this b the way you'd want to have spent it?”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Life, Way

“It's four in the morning, the end of december
I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

“He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn't love me anymore, and it's not the end of the world.”

Jennifer Weiner book Good in Bed

Source: Good in Bed

Love, World

“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live”

John Woods (1955) Irish long-distance runner

Guy

“Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell. (…)”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.”

Cormac McCarthy book All the Pretty Horses

Source: All the Pretty Horses

“I’m not the farmer I claimed to be, but I hope I can make you fall in love with me again, this time as a prince, one day at a time. We’ve had a terrible start—it doesn’t mean we can’t have a better ending.”

Mary E. Pearson (1955) young-adult fiction writer

Source: The Heart of Betrayal

Love, Hope, Time

“Here's the funny thing about the world coming to an end. Once it gets going, it doesn't seem to stop.”

Susan Beth Pfeffer book Life As We Knew It

Source: Life As We Knew It

World

“The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.”

Samuel Johnson London

A Review http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/jenyns.html of Soame Jenyns' A Free Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil, published in the first volume of Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces (London, 1774), p. 23

Life

“Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.”

Roger Zelazny Prince of Chaos

Source: Prince of Chaos

World

“If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

Change

“Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Love, Truth, Lie, Spring

“(opening lines) The terror, which would not end for another 28 years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.”

Stephen King book It

Source: It (1986)

“Sure, this will probably end up being another in a long line of emotionally crippling misadventures… but let's try to have some fun along the way.”

Brian K. Vaughan (1976) American screenwriter, comic book creator

Way

“The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.”

Mercedes Lackey (1950) American novelist and short story writer

Source: Sacred Ground

Freedom

“Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling of being more and more invisible everyday.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

Women, People, Feeling

“I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

“Do you want my input or is this just an angry tirade you need to vent? (Acheron)
Both! (Kat)
Okay, you rant and I’ll add my comments at the end. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Devil May Cry

“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.”

Katharine Weber (1955) American novelist

Source: The Music Lesson

Life, Loss, Parting

“In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Original: (99) Rahim Khan
Variant: It was Homaira and me against the world.... In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)

World, Way

“Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature's profligate generosity.”

Pat Conroy (1945–2016) American novelist

Source: My Reading Life

Books, Feeling, Literature, Parting

“I think it’s more like a shirt that says, ‘I’m going to have to end this date early so I can go prepare my Power Point presentation”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Thinking

“A manwhat he has passion about,” Breeze said. “I’ve found that if you give up what you want most for what youyou should want more, you’ll just end up miserable.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Hero of Ages

Passion

“There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may find that you've constructed an entire philosophy of evil." --Luke Skywalker”

Aaron Allston book Betrayal

Source: Betrayal

Evil, Time

“Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self”

Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014) South african Nobel-winning writer

“That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: Firefly Lane

Friendship, For Mother, For Friend, For Bestfriend

“At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.”

David Sedaris book Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

Tree

“In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Guts

Source: Guts

“It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.”

William Faulkner book As I Lay Dying

Source: As I Lay Dying (1930)

World, People

“When is the night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply when you realize that you have to?”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Sleep, Night

“Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.”

James Rollins (1961) American writer

History, Question, Science

“I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Love the One You're With

Life, Fate, Faith, Thinking

“But anyone can begin. It was the part with all the promise, the potential, the things I loved. More and more, though, I was finding myself wanting to find out what happened in the end..”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

Love, Parting

“Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads).”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

Life

“In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be, by remaining what we are.”

Max DePree (1924–2017) American businessman and writer

Variant: We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
Source: Leadership Is an Art

“He said a bad word. Do you want to know what it was? It started with F. It's not the one you're thinking of, though. To the other one. The one that ends with P. do you want to know what it was? It was troop." She frowned. "Wait that's not a word.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Kingdom of the Wicked

Thinking, Waiting

“What remains of your past if you didn't allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.”

David Rakoff (1964–2012) writer

Source: Fraud: Essays

Feeling, Memory, Past

“I was a beautiful vampire princess loved, worshiped and admired by all. I lived in a luxurious gothic castle and I have no idea how I ended up at this fiberglass table with you losers.”

Alyson Nöel book Evermore

Source: Evermore

Love, Beauty, Idea, Princess

“What's the point of thinking about how it's going to end when it's just the beginning?”

Judy Blume Summer Sisters

Source: Summer Sisters

Thinking

“When the game ended, Mike laid down his control paddle. "So you've met the Nordic goddess, right?"

Aria glanced up at him warily. "Excuse me?"

Mike rolled his eyes. "Klaudia, which I'm pretty sure is Scandinavian for.”

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

Source: Twisted

Game

“I am here, alone, at the end of the world. I reach out and touch nothing.”.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

World

“In the end? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Dr. Manhattan, Watchmen #12

“We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted

Life, Happiness

“Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.”

Douglas Coupland (1961) Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and graphic designer

Life, People

“Now do you see why war irritates me? It's always the same. A lot of people get killed, but in the end, the whole thing is settled at the conference table. The notion of having the conference first doesn't seem to occur to people.”

David Eddings book Belgarath the Sorcerer

Source: Belgarath the Sorcerer

War, People

“There is no end
To what a living world
Will demand of you.”

Octavia E. Butler book Parable of the Sower

Source: Parable of the Sower

World

“There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.”

Kingsley Amis book Lucky Jim

Source: Lucky Jim (1954)

Way

“Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?”

Judy Blume (1938) American children's writer

Source: Forever . . .

Question

“Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us.”

Dan Brown book Angels & Demons

Source: Angels & Demons

Life, Religion

“I don't want to fall in love with you,' she said, pushing away.
'why not?'
'because you'll just end up using it against me.”

Francine Rivers (1947) American writer

Source: Redeeming Love

Love

“Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Unbound

Source: Lover Unbound

Love, Pain

“The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Light

“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.”

Sam Levenson (1911–1980) American journalist

Help

“I'm going to end up like one of those old weirdos who lives in a network of tunnels burrowed through trash - yet I do not fear this.”

Will Self (1961) English writer and journalist

Fear

“Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

Tree, Happiness

“The world began in hazard and will end in it.”

John Fowles book The Magus

Source: The Magus

World

“What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be, and some rules are better broken.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

“My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every year, and at the end of which there was darkness. When I changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared. I now live in the open air.”

Derek Parfit book Reasons and Persons

Source: Reasons and Persons (1984), p. 281
Context: Is the truth depressing? Some may find it so. But I find it liberating, and consoling. When I believed that my existence was a further fact, I seemed imprisoned in myself. My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every year, and at the end of which there was darkness. When I changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared. I now live in the open air. There is still a difference between my life and the lives of other people. But the difference is less. I am less concerned about the rest of my own life, and more concerned about the lives of others.

Life, Change

“There.” She tossed her hair back while he stared at her. “The sky did not fall, the world did not end, neither of us was struck by lightning or beamed straight to hell. I’m not your damn
sister, Delaney. That ought to make it clear.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Savor the Moment

World, Hell, Sister

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