Quotes about end
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“There's no end to suspicion once you get going.”

Koushun Takami (1969) Japanese author and journalist

“Right. That’s the end of the line for you tonight. You’re going home, I’m seeing you safe inside, and I’m going home to hide in a closet until this blows over. I suggest you do the same.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: The Dead Girls' Dance

Home

“The Federal Department of Odds and Ends: sweepus underum carpetae.”

Shaun Tan book The Lost Thing

Source: The Lost Thing

“and I try
to draw the line
but it ends up running down the middle of me
most of the time.”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

Source: Ani DiFranco: Verses

Time, Drawing

“And over all those sleepy weeks, the dream always ended the same way, with the dragon coming for the princess saying the same words every time….
"Face it, Tally-wa, you're Special.”

Scott Westerfeld book Pretties

Source: Pretties

Dreams, Way, Time, Princess

“But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.”

Jeannette Walls book Half Broke Horses

Source: Half Broke Horses

“In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: The Wind Through the Keyhole

“Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

Death

“We cannot know the future. All we can do is face it bravely. We should take heed of those we love and respect. But in the end, we make every decision alone.”

Juliet Marillier book Seer of Sevenwaters

Source: Seer of Sevenwaters

Love, Decision, Future

“Our story is over, though in its end lies its beginning.”

Sally Gardner book The Red Necklace

Source: The Red Necklace

“Magic is always impossible…. It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it's magic.”

Kate DiCamillo The Magician's Elephant

Source: The Magician's Elephant

“Does the road wind up-hill all the way?
Yes, to the very end.
Will the day's journey take the whole long day?
From morn to night, my friend.”

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet

Up-Hill http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/rossetti.uphill.html, st. 1 (1861).

Way, Night

“… When I look back on my life's greatest traumas… I see that each one has something in common. No matter how life-shattering they felt at the time, there was an end to them.”

Anna Maxted (1969) British writer

Source: Getting Over It

Life, Time

“It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Wizard Heir

Summer, Night

“But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?”

Shannon Hale (1974) American fantasy novelist

Source: Midnight in Austenland

Travel

“The tricky thing about mazes is that you don't know if you've chosen the right path until the very end. If it turns out you were wrong, it's usually too late to go back and start again. That's the problem with mazes.”

Haruki Murakami book The Strange Library

Source: The Strange Library

Problem

“That's the question, isn't it?" you said one night. "Does death bring freedom, or is it the end of freedom?”

David Levithan book Every You, Every Me

Source: Every You, Every Me

Death, Question, Freedom, Night

“Think of love as a state of grace not as a means to anything… but an end in itself.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Variant: It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

Love, Thinking

“To love yourself is a never-ending journey.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Love

“You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.”

Lloyd Alexander book The Book of Three

Source: The Book of Three

World, Imagination

“If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.”

Robert Jordan The Shadow Rising

Source: The Shadow Rising

“Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.”

Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer

Source: Before Midnight: A Retelling of Cinderella

“where the world ends is where you must begin”

Stephen King book The Gunslinger

Source: The Gunslinger

World

“It will all be better in the end and if it is not better then it must not be the end yet”

Dean Koontz book From the Corner of His Eye

Source: From the Corner of His Eye

“I told them," he said in a clear, carrying voice, "that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.”

Patricia Briggs book Fair Game

Source: Fair Game

Love, Daughters

“I was looking for the opposite, really -something that might put an end to being in love”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Love

“If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.”

Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer

“It was one of those and so they died/the end stories, that made us demigods feels all warm and fuzzy inside.-Percy”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

Feeling

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”

Gilda Radner (1946–1989) American comedian

Way, Learning, Perfection

“It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

War

“Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Love, Happiness

“You should have left him to wander,” Svengal said coldly. Erak looked at him, eyebrows raised.
“Would you?” he asked, and Svengal hesitated. At the end, Toshak had fought well and that counted for a lot of Skandians.
“No,” he admitted.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: Erak's Ransom

“Everyone deserves a happy ending.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

Happiness

“I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all the acquisitions and accomplishments- they run you down in the end.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Way, Search

“Sorry, there´s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story.”

Morgan Spurlock (1970) American filmmaker, screenwriter and producer

Source: Don't Eat This Book

“Odd to think that the piece of you I know best is already dead. The cells on the surface of your skin are thin and flat without the blood vessels or nerve endings. Dead cells, thickest on the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: Written on the Body

Thinking, Dead

“But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses”

Jane Smiley (1949) American novelist

Source: A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck

Children, Girl, Horse

“Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Men, Dreams

“I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Hope

“… The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

Love, Girl

“Charonte are guarding a Dimme? Is the world coming to an end and I missed the memo? (Stryker)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dream Chaser

World

“When you get… to the end, you see that love and family are all there is. Nothing else matters.”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: Firefly Lane

Love, Family

“The message of "The Winner Takes It All" is straightforward: It argues that the concept of relationships ending on mutual terms is an emotional fallacy. One person is inevitably okay and the other is inevitably devastated.”

Chuck Klosterman Eating the Dinosaur

Source: Eating the Dinosaur

Personality

“My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends?”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Love, Time, Heart, Hurt

“In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.”

Shirley Chisholm (1924–2005) American politician

“Well,” Naomi said cheerfully, “what’s the worst that can happen?” They were silent, considering that, because there were just so many possibilities. But in the end, it was a better idea than Facebook.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Last Breath

Idea

“If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans?”

Peter Singer book Animal Liberation

Source: Animal Liberation

Intelligence

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”

Frank Herbert (1920–1986) American writer

“Reading's my reward at the end of the day”

Cheryl Strayed book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Reading

“A massive fir, it rose to nearly touch the ceiling at the far end of the ballroom. When Will asked Charlotte how on earth it had gotten in there, she had only waved her hands and said something about Magnus.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Open your eyes now. I will. One moment. Has all vanished since? If I open and am for ever in the black adiaphane. I will see if I can see.
See now. There all the time without you: and ever shall be, world without end.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

World, Time

“How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?… All will end in death, all!”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

Death

“All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at the end, the graves are identical.”

Leila Aboulela (1964) writer, playwright

Source: Minaret

Life, Women, Men, Clothes

“It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.”

P.G. Wodehouse book The Adventures of Sally

Source: The Adventures of Sally (1922)

Sport, Dependency

“I've decided. I'm going to become a Shinigami. Become a Shinigami and change things. So that they'll end… without Rangiku having to cry.”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Change, Cry

“I knew I would hate my best memory because it would prove that people could fake love or that love could end or worst of all, love was not powerful enough to change a life.”

Mona Simpson (1957) American novelist

Love, Life, Hate, People

“if you put your trust in God, you’ll be all right in the end.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

God

“The war which is coming
Is not the first one. There were
Other wars before it.
When the last one came to an end
There were conquerors and conquered.
Among the conquered the common people
Starved. Among the conquerors
The common people starved too.”

Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director

Source: Poems 1913-1956

War, People

“In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.”

Sophie Kinsella (1969) British writer

Source: Shopaholic & Baby

“The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you.”

Nick Hornby book Juliet, Naked

Source: Juliet, Naked

Life, Truth

“Some part of me knew he would show up, that if I stood in one place long enough he would find me, like you're taught to do when you're lost. But they never taught us what to do if both of you are lost, and you both end up in the same place, waiting.”

Nick Flynn book Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

Source: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

Waiting, Parting

“Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us. If we were no longer here, words would lose their whole function. They would end up as words that are never spoken, and words that aren't spoken are no longer words.”

Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“I can't drive."
"I'm going to teach you," he'd said confidently.
At the end of the lesson, he'd declared her the most aggressive and dangerous driver he'd ever encountered.
Which meant… number one! (Sabine)”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Kiss of a Demon King

Confidence

“Life, he realized, was much like a song.
In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Steve Miller, Chapter 36, Steve, p. 376
Source: 2000s, The Last Song (2009)

Life

“Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends.”

Paul Fussell book The Great War and Modern Memory

Source: The Great War and Modern Memory

War

“.

In the end, we both want the right thing to happen, the right person to win, the right idea to prevail. We have no faith that it will, but still we want it. Neither of us has given up on anything.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Faith, Idea, Personality

“Can I ever come back here' he asked, and the Woodsman said something very strange in reply.
'Most people come back here,' he said, 'in the end”

John Connolly The Book of Lost Things

Source: The Book of Lost Things

People

“… what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends, there's nothing left.”

Zoë Heller (1965) British writer

Source: What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]

“We are coming up on the Sumerian apokalypsi–. (Artemis)
I don’t think they use that word. (Kat)
Who cares what word they use? End of the world is end of the world regardless of whatever term you use for it! (Artemis)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Devil May Cry

World, Thinking

“His Back was turned to the end of the world and the end of the world was quiet.”

Anne Rice Taltos

Source: Taltos

World

“He's at the chocolate teapot end of the competency scale.”

Nick Hornby book A Long Way Down

Source: A Long Way Down

“For most of us, once something was busted, it was game over. I would have loved to know how it felt, just once, to have something fall apart and see options instead of endings.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Saint Anything

Love, Game

“… maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.”

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Lie

“In the end you have only you.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

Source: Love

“There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.”

Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Death, Way

“What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.”

Julian Fellowes (1949) English actor, dramatist, director, novelist, producer and screenwriter

“All memories fade away in the end. Then, only dreams are left. And because they are all we have, we confide our life’s worries to them.”

Philippe Forest (1962) French writer

Life, Dreams, Confidence, Memory

“Because in the end nothing is worse than seeing the fall of one you loved. It was somehow worse than losing a love. It made everything seem questionable. It made the past bitter and confused.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Fall of the Hotel Dumort

Love, Question, Past

“Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence.”

Steven Erikson (1959) Canadian fantasy author

“This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

Time, Sun

“Admire the world for never ending on you -- as you would an opponent, without taking your eyes away from him, or walking away.”

Annie Dillard (1945) American writer

Source: The Writing Life

World

“In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

Music

“That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

Source: Prozac Nation

Depressing

“Maybe that's what you got when you stood over your grief, facing it finally. A sense of its depths, its area, the distance across, and the way over or around it, whichever you chose in the end.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Way, Sense

“It has been my experience that most human stories are circular rather than linear. Regardless of the path we choose, we somehow end up where we commenced - in part, I suspect, because the child who lives in us goes along for the ride.”

James Lee Burke (1936) Novelist, short story writer

Source: The Glass Rainbow

Parting

“He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn’t able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Heart

“What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song.”

Thomas Pynchon book Inherent Vice

Source: Inherent Vice

Universe

“It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.”

Mark Rothko (1903–1970) American painter

Solitude, Silence

“At the same time, my anxiety had turned into an anxiety quite lacking in anxiousness. And any anxiety that is not especially anxious is, in the end, an anxiety hardly worth mentioning.”

Haruki Murakami book The Strange Library

Source: The Strange Library

Time

“We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel.”

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Source: Dance Dance Dance

“Ice is for death and endings.”

Guy Gavriel Kay book Tigana

Source: Tigana

Death

“Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.”

Toni Morrison book The Bluest Eye

Source: The Bluest Eye

Love, Beauty, History, Idea

“For any of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred of years from now. You can never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

“If you need to stop an asteroid, you call Superman. If you need to solve a mystery, you call Batman. But if you need to end a war, you call Wonder Woman.”

Gail Simone (1974) writer

War

“There is really no end to life's little humiliations.”

Lev Grossman The Magicians

Source: The Magicians

Life

“It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Pain, Happiness, Peace, Feeling

“Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.”

Herman Melville book Billy Budd, Sailor

Source: Billy Budd, the Sailor (1891), Ch. 21
Source: Billy Budd, Sailor
Context: Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity. In pronounced cases there is no question about them. But in some supposed cases, in various degrees supposedly less pronounced, to draw the exact line of demarcation few will undertake tho' for a fee some professional experts will. There is nothing nameable but that some men will undertake to do it for pay.

Color, Drawing

“Love transforms, Love heals. But sometimes it lays deadly traps and ends up destroying the person who decided to surrender himself completely.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

Love, Personality

“it is just as wrong, or even perhaps more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Variant: I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.
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.

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