Quotes about end

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Source: The Dream Hunter

Source: The End of Eternity

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

The Fifth Queen Crowned

Source: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Source: The Hero of Ages

Source: Chocolat

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: Black Heart

Source: Dream Warrior

Variant: We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
Source: Four Quartets

Source: The Year of Magical Thinking

Source: Nervous Conditions

Source: Summer and the City

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Source: Like the Flowing River

Source: Words of Radiance

One (1988)

Source: Just Ella

Source: Moulin Rouge!: The Splendid Book That Charts the Journey of Baz Luhrmann's Motion Picture

Source: Child of the Prophecy

As quoted in "Literary Censorship in England" in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5 (November 1913), p. 378; this has sometimes appeared on the internet in paraphrased form as "Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads"
1910s
Context: Any public committee man who tries to pack the moral cards in the interest of his own notions is guilty of corruption and impertinence. The business of a public library is not to supply the public with the books the committee thinks good for the public, but to supply the public with the books the public wants. … Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read. But as the ratepayer is mostly a coward and a fool in these difficult matters, and the committee is quite sure that it can succeed where the Roman Catholic Church has made its index expurgatorius the laughing-stock of the world, censorship will rage until it reduces itself to absurdity; and even then the best books will be in danger still.

1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Experience

Source: The Goldfinch

Source: The Last Song

Source: Underdog

Source: Monty Python's Flying Circus

Source: Love the One You're With

Source: The Pale King

Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Source: Point Counter Point (1928), Ch. 26; note: the character Mark Rampion, a writer, painter and fierce critic of modern society, is based on D. H. Lawrence.
Source: The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
Context: The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.... The thoroughly contemptible man may have valuable opinions, just as in some ways the admirable man can have detestable opinions.... Many intellectuals, of course, don’t get far enough to reach the obvious again. They remain stuck in a pathetic belief in rationalism and the absolute supremacy of mental values and the entirely conscious will. You’ve got to go further than the nineteenth-century fellows, for example; as far at least as Protagoras and Pyrrho, before you get back to the obvious in which the nonintellectuals have always remained.... these nonintellectuals aren’t the modern canaille who read the picture papers and... are preoccupied with making money... They take the main intellectualist axiom for granted—that there’s an intrinsic superiority in mental, conscious, voluntary life over physical, intuitive, instinctive, emotional life. The whole of modern civilization is based on the idea that the specialized function which gives a man his place in society is more important than the whole man, or rather is the whole man, all the rest being irrelevant or even (since the physical, intuitive, instinctive and emotional part of man doesn’t contribute appreciably to making money or getting on in an industrialized world) positively harmful and detestable.... The nonintellectuals I’m thinking of are very different beings.... There were probably quite a lot of them three thousand years ago. But the combined efforts of Plato and Aristotle, Jesus, Newton and big business have turned their descendants into the modern bourgeoisie and proletariat. The obvious that the intellectual gets back to, if he goes far enough, isn’t of course the same as the obvious of the nonintellectuals. For their obvious is life itself and his recovered obvious is only the idea of that life. Not many can put flesh and blood on the idea and turn it into reality. The intellectuals who, like Rampion, don’t have to return to the obvious, but have always believed in it and lived it, while at the same time leading the life of the spirit, are rarer still.

1960s, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Context: I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried to make clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

Source: Charlie Chaplin: Interviews

Source: The Coffin Club

Source: 11/22/63

Source: And Then There Were None

Source: Last Breath

Source: This Is How You Lose Her

Source: Afterworlds

Source: The Notebook

Source: Les Misérables

Source: Bel-Ami

Source: The Great Gatsby

Source: Disgrace

Source: The Way of Kings

Source: Uglies

Source: Working for the Devil

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Experience
Context: Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.

Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

Source: Ender's Game

Source: Buddha's Little Instruction Book

Source: That Summer (1996)
Context: Maybe not, she said as we came to the car. But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.

Part 2, Ch. 27
The Woman in the Dunes (1962)

Source: V for Vendetta

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: The Darkest Evening of the Year

Travis Parker, Proloque, p. 1
Source: 2000s, The Choice (2007)

Source: Enchantment

Source: Sweethearts

Source: The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Queen of Everything

Source: Incarceron

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Source: How They Met, and Other Stories

"Confessions of an unromantic man," Redbook magazine, Vol. 176, Iss. 4, (Feb 1991): 62.

Source: Sharp Objects

Source: Half Empty

An American Prayer (1978)
Variant: We live, we die
and death not ends it
Context: O great creator of being
grant us one more hour to
perform our art
and perfect our lives The moths & atheists are doubly divine
& dying
We live, we die
and death not ends it

Source: Open

Source: Sackett's Land (1974), Ch. 4

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Source: River Marked

Source: The Man Without Qualities

Source: Succubus Blues

Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad

Source: 1Q84

Source: Paradise

"The Mohican"
Under a Glass Bell (1944)