Quotes about end

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“For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning - not home but the place through which we must pass if ever we are to reach home at last.”

“She nods. You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is.”

“In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'
What is it then?'
It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.”

“The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It's one of the never-ending cycles in life.”

“Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.”

“Ah! when will this long weary day have end,
And lende me leave to come unto my love?

- Epithalamion”

“Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.”

“Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.”

“What I thought was an end
turned out to be a middle.
What I thought was a brick wall
turned out to be a tunnel.
What I thought was an injustice
turned out to be a color of the sky.”

“It's funny whom we end up choosing to love and who ends up choosing to love us. It's rarely the people we think it should be.”

“Ending is better than mending.”

“To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her,
or if not I, the imprint of myself - my fossil-love”

“I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I'd keep myself amused.”

“But now and then, a woman walks up, full blossom, a woman just bursting out of her dress…a sex creature, a curse, the end of it all.”

“I return to problems i can't solve, not because i am an idiot, but because the real problems can't be solved. The universe is expanding. The more we see, the more we discover there is to see. Always a new beginning, a different end.”

“Endings are beginnings, and beginnings are ours to turn into something good.”

“Are you mine?”
Yes.
“Are you mine?”
Yes.
“Are you mine?”
No.
“No?”
No. I loved being yours. But now I’m mine, which is all I ever was, in the end.”

“I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.”

“Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.”

“Like all Herondales, his ability to love without measure, without end, was both his great gift and his great curse.”

“Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself.”

“Should I just bite you, and end it all?", he whispered. "I would never have to think about you again. Thinking about you is an annoying habit and one I want to be rid of.”

“In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, "Is this all?”

“The present is the only things that has no end.”

“It is only the darkness in our own hearts that will defeat us, in the end.”

“In the end, I think that I will like that we were sitting on the bed, talking & wondering where the time had gone.”

“He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.”

“You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that.”

“I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.”

“Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl.”

“Three things see no end-
A flower blighted ere it bloomed,
A message that was wasted,
And a journey that was doomed.”

“To be a human is to state the obvious. Repeatedly. Over and over, until the end of time.”

“Live not for Battles Won.
Live not for The-End-of-the-Song.
Live in the along.”

“If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.”

“Nobody ever gets enough appreciation when they're behaving themselves, but there's no end to hearing about it when they're not.”

“Show me slowly what I only
know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love”

“You were designed to be very smart, Max,' she told me. 'We electrically stimulated your synaptic nerve endings while your brain was developing.' (The director)
And yet I still can't program my DVD player,' I said." (Max)”

“Let's face it: a date is a job-interview, that lasts all night. The only difference between a date and a job interview is: not many job-interviews is there a chance you'll end up naked at the end of it.”

“When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.”

“Some stories don’t have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.”

“When first love ends, most people eventually know there will be more to come. They are not through with love. Love is not through with them. It will never be the same as the first, but it will be better in different ways.”

“She doesn't want to end up like me. At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow.”

“He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after.”

“I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.”

“For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.”

“A good book should leave you…. slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.”

“Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you're any wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.”

“Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.”

“Inertia iseasy—don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting whatbroken, mistaking complaining for action, procrastinating for deliberation.”

“You're still alive. And that means you'll love and be loved… and in the end, nothing else really matters.”

“When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.”

“People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly limited. The sob stories we like are the ones that end before we're bored.”

“Love knows no limits to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.”

“Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down the road and someday, you do not now when, you will make a wrong tun. At the end of the road, when you're least expecting it, he (or indeed she) will be there.”

“I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.”

“It doesn’t feel like the end of the world. (Davyn)
No, it doesn’t…(Stryker)
How does the song go, ‘It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine? (Apollymi)”

“Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.”

“When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.”

“Sometime, somewhere, life always comes to a fight, and peace always comes to an end.”

“I once started out
to walk around the world
but ended up in Brooklyn,
that Bridge was too much for me.”

“Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us.
Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on”

“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.”

“We had a terrible start… doesn’t mean we can’t have a better ending.”

“We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.”

“from the beginning, through the
middle years and up to the
end:
too bad, too bad, too bad.”

“Every relationship has a hard part at the beginning. This is our hard part. It's not like a puzzle piece where there's an instant fit. With relationships, you have to shape the pieces on each end before they go perfectly together.”

“Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.”

“I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It's an infinite playlist.”

“The ending is always a surprise.”

“I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick's wrong end, impaling themselves on its point in order to prove the perfidy of the other.”

“The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State.”

“There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.”

“In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.”

“He was the closest thing I'd ever had to something, or someone, that mattered. But in the end, close didn't count. You were either in, or you weren't.”

“Nico found a sort of freedom in knowing that eventually, no matter what happened, he would end up at the foot of his father’s throne.”

“An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality.”

“He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.”

“… with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.”

“I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies”

“Crows," Maximus breathed. "Was that who I think it was?"
"Phrygiar Navaris," Tavi said, nodding.
"What was she doing here?" Max asked.
"Getting humiliated, mostly. Especially there at the end.”

“In the end, we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's being continually retold in an accent too thick and too strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke. The soul is its punchline.”

“I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other”

“The problem with introspection is that it has no end.”

“In the end, we'll all become stories.”

“time past and time future
what might have been and what has been
point to one end, which is always present.”

“A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.”

“Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.”

“You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself.”

“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.”

“Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway.

Sometimes they do. And when they do, even if it's not a happy ending, it is delicious”

“Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.”

“Nights without beginning that had no end. Talking about a past as if it'd really happened. Telling themselves that this time next year, this time next year, things were going to be different.”

“But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis.”

“I'm not good at relationships
I always manage to find the flaws
sometimes in others
but mostly my own.
I foretell the ending
then go and create the cause
save myself
and end up alone”

“A Warrior knows that the ends do not justify the means. Because there are no ends, there are only means…”

“I've seen what commitment leads to. Going in is the easy part. It's the ending that sucks!
-Remy”

“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”

“Excellence/Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.”

“The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.”