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“the worst thing," he told me,
"is bitterness, people end up so
bitter.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“Those that trust no one, usually end up trusting the wrong person."-Umma to Midnight”
Sister Souljah book Midnight and the Meaning of Love
Source: Midnight and the Meaning of Love
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
1770s, Declaration of Independence (1776)
Context: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
“One time I actually cleaned out my closet so good I ended up on the cover of Time magazine.”
Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress
David Eddings (1931–2009) American novelist
Source: Demon Lord of Karanda
“Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to mankind.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1961, UN speech
Context: Mankind must put an end to war — or war will put an end to mankind.
So let us here resolve that Dag Hammarskjold did not live, or die, in vain. Let us call a truce to terror. Let us invoke the blessings of peace. And as we build an international capacity to keep peace, let us join in dismantling the national capacity to wage war.
Context: We meet in an hour of grief and challenge. Dag Hammarskjold is dead. But the United Nations lives. His tragedy is deep in our hearts, but the task for which he died is at the top of our agenda. A noble servant of peace is gone. But the quest for peace lies before us.
The problem is not the death of one man — the problem is the life of this organization. It will either grow to meet the challenges of our age, or it will be gone with the wind, without influence, without force, without respect. Were we to let it die, to enfeeble its vigor, to cripple its powers, we would condemn our future. For in the development of this organization rests the only true alternative to war — and war appeals no longer as a rational alternative. Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer concern the great powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by wind and water and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war — or war will put an end to mankind.
So let us here resolve that Dag Hammarskjold did not live, or die, in vain. Let us call a truce to terror. Let us invoke the blessings of peace. And as we build an international capacity to keep peace, let us join in dismantling the national capacity to wage war.
“Everything has to come to an end, sometime.”
L. Frank Baum book The Marvelous Land of Oz
Source: The Marvelous Land of Oz
“What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it”
Edward Albee (1928–2016) American playwright
Variant: You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?
Kerrelyn Sparks (1955) American writer
Source: All I Want for Christmas is a Vampire
“He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.”
Cheryl Strayed (1968) author, memoirist, blogger
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Matrim Cauthon
(15 October 1994)
Source: The Wheel of time series by Robert Jordan
“Save me, Shahara. Save me from the lonely nights that never end. (Syn)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Born of Fire
Marya Hornbacher book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist
Out of Habit
Song lyrics
Variant: Art is why I get up in the morning; my definition ends there.
You know it doesn't seem fair,
That I'm living for something I can't even define.
And there you are right there, in the mean time.
“Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.”
Louisa May Alcott book Little Women
Source: Little Women (1868), Ch. 40 : The Valley Of The Shadow
Source: Little Women Book Two Book: Good Wives
“Remember all fairy tales end at some point.”
Melissa de la Cruz (1971) American writer
Source: Lost in Time
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Rose Tremain (1943) English author, chancellor of the University of East Anglia
A Poison Tree, st. 1
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)
“Perhaps we can win, he thought. But there will be no happy ending”
Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books
Source: The Last Guardian
“love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end.”
Graham Greene book The End of the Affair
Source: The End of the Affair
“Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.”
Drew Barrymore (1975) American actress, director and producer
Variant: In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.
David Gilmour (1946) guitarist, singer, best known as a member of Pink Floyd
Source: The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Douglas Coupland book JPod
Source: JPod (2006)
Context: You know what? When you read a book, you’re totally lost in your own private world, and society says that’s a good and wonderful thing. But if you play a game by yourself, it’s this weird, fucked-up, socially damaging activity.
In my neighbourhood, all the teenage boys are dying because they’re driving their cars using videogame physics instead of real-world physics. They turn too quickly and change lanes too quickly. They don’t understand traction or centripetal force. And they’re dropping like flies.
Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie 2. What — suddenly you’ve magically turned into Noam Chomsky?
Don’t discuss Sony like it’s a great big benevolent cartoon character who lives next door to Astro Boy. Like any company, Sony is comprised of individuals who are fearful for their jobs on a daily basis, and who make lame decisions based pretty much on fear and conforming to social norms — but then, that’s every corporation on earth, so don’t single out one specific corporation as lovable and cute. They’re all evil and greedy. They’re all sort of in the moral middle ground, where good and bad cancel each other out, so there’s nothing really there — which, in it’s own way, far darker than any paranoid or patriarchal theory of Sony.
Here’s a much simpler example of geeks and neural processing malfunctions: Has anybody experienced a geek environment in which said geeks wear perfume or deodorant? Chances are no. While advanced microautistics are more commonly men than women, both share a marked dislike of scent.
“And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.”
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer
Mark Rowlands (1962) British philosopher
Source: The Philosopher and the Wolf: Lessons from the Wild on Love, Death, and Happiness
“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”
Jean-Luc Godard (1930) French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic
Variant: A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.
“So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.”
Jack London book Call of the Wild
Source: The Call of the Wild
“Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.”
Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“… and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.”
Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes
Source: Eleven Minutes
Cheryl Strayed book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
David Hume (1711–1776) Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian
Letters
Source: Letters of David Hume 2 vols
Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer
Source: Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal? (2011), p.38
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write.”
Salman Rushdie book The Enchantress of Florence
Source: The Enchantress of Florence
Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
Source: The Story of My Life (1932), Ch. 4 "Called To The Bar"
“The never-ending task of self improvement.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
