Quotes about end
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“We'd be fools not to ride this strange torpedo all the way out to the end.”
Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Source: The Truth About Forever
“You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.”
Greasy Sae, p. 12
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire (2009)
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 45, “Interlude—Some Tavern Tale” (p. 333)
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
“Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned”
Source: Confessor
Source: The Best of Me
“I just want the pain to end.”
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!”
From the published screenplay for "The Big Brass Ring" (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Santa Teresa Press, 1987)
Variant: If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Interview on CNBC http://www.cnbc.com/id/43670783 (1 July 2011)
Source: Girl, Interrupted (1994)
“The cow is of the bovine ilk;
One end is moo, the other, milk.”
"The Cow".
Source: Free Wheeling (1931)
Source: No Country for Old Men (2005)
Context: I aint got all that many regrets. I could imagine lots of things that you might think would make a man happier. I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
Source: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr (2001), pp. 359-360.
“This was but a prelude;
where books are burnt
human-beings will be burnt
in the end”
“You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't. Trust me, I was there. I know.”
Biff, in Ch. 1
Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal (2002)
“If it's bitter at the start, then it's sweeter in the end.”
Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Source: The Lightning Thief
“sup? i'm working. on what? my suicide note. i can't figure out how to end it. lol”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Source: A Natural History of the Senses (1991)
As quoted in Huston Smith, "Aldous Huxley--A Tribute," The Psychedelic Review, (1964) Vol I, No.3, (Aldous Huxley Memorial Issue), p. 264-5
Source: Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics & the Visionary Experience
“It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.”
The Figure a Poem Makes (1939)
Variant: A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Context: It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.
Source: Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated, I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver
Source: "Faulkner and Desegregation" in Partisan Review (Fall 1956); republished in Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961)
Context: Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long cherished or a privilege he has long possessed that he is set free — he has set himself free — for higher dreams, for greater privileges.
“All ends are temporary and all life is born from death.”
Source: Evil Thirst
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident; it was a joke.”
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.”
Source: Joe Jones
Source: The Historian (2005), Ch. 9
Context: There is survival and survival, the historian learns to his grief. The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.
Context: My dear and unfortunate successor:
I shall conclude my account as rapidly as possible, since you must draw from it vital information if we are both to — ah, to survive, at least, and to survive in a state of goodness and mercy. There is survival and survival, the historian learns to his grief. The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.
“It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.”
Source: Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy
Source: Blood Promise
“If you're at the end of your rope… untie the knot in your heart.”
Source: If You're Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Rainbow/Add One More Star to the Night
“Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.”
"Fire and Ice" (1923)
General sources
Context: Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Book I, v, 8
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
Source: The Advancement Of Learning
Context: The two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients: the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation: If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Source: Everything I Never Told You
Author’s Warning
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988)
Source: The Great Gatsby
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982)
Context: I watched an old American submarine movie on television. The creaking plot had the captain and first officer constantly at each other’s throat. The submarine was a fossil, and one guy had claustrophobia. But all that didn’t stop everything from working out well in the end. It was an everything-works-out-in-the-end-so-maybe-war’s-not-so-bad-after-all sort of film. One of these days they’ll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.
“I bought a house on a one-way dead-end road. I don’t know how I got there.”
“The rivalry ends here," [Percy] said. "I love you, Wise Girl.”
Variant: The rivalry ends here," Percy said. "I love you, Wise Girl.
Source: The Blood of Olympus
Source: Interview with the Vampire
“Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.”
Source: The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life