Quotes about end
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“Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

“And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”

William Shakespeare Richard III

Source: Richard III

Clothes

“Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.”

Stephen King book The Green Mile

Variant: Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.
Source: The Green Mile

Time

“Death ends a life, not a relationship”

Morrie Schwartz (1916–1995) American sociologist

Relationship, Goodbye, For Father, Life

“Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Source: Aleph

Sadness, Tear, Joy

“The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!”

John Locke (1632–1704) English philosopher and physician

Men, God, Children, Truth

“Being responsible is taking ownership of your life. It means you have taken the first radical step to becoming a complete human being—fully conscious and fully human. In taking responsibility and beginning the journey toward conscious living, you are putting an end to the age-old patterns of assigning blame outward or heavenward. You have begun the greatest adventure life has to offer: the voyage inward.”

Sadhguru book Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy

Source: Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy

Life, Age

“Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear. It is an immensely exciting experience to be born in the world, born in the universe, and look around you and realise that before you die you have the opportunity of understanding an immense amount about that world and about that universe and about life and about why we're here. We have the opportunity of understanding far, far more than any of our predecessors ever. That is such an exciting possibility, it would be such a shame to blow it and end your life not having understood what there is to understand.”

Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

An Interview by Sheena McDonald (1995)

Life, World, Beauty, Understanding

“We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.”

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister

Love

“There’s no war that will end all wars.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002)

Peaceful, War

“… happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves…. The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement….”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

Life, Effort, Suffering, Happiness

“Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.”

Watchman Nee book The Normal Christian Life

Source: The Normal Christian Life

History

“Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that’s all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that’s all we have - to hold on tight until the dawn”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Love, Truth, Hope, Tear

“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”

Arthur Miller The Ride Down Mt. Morgan

Act 1
The Ride Down Mount Morgan (1991)
Source: The Ride Down Mt. Morgan

Hope

“I need to know that wherever I end up, in the stars or in the gutter, you’re along for the ride.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

Star

“The CHILD must know that he is a MIRACLE, that since the beginning of the world there hasn’t been, and until the end of the world will not be, another child like him.”

Pablo Casals (1876–1973) Catalan cellist and conductor

World

“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

People, Parting

“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”

Terry Pratchett book Thief of Time

Source: Thief of Time

World, Time, Painting

“In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

People, Courage

“In his early twenties, a man started collecting paintings, many of which later became famous: Picasso, Van Gogh, and others. Over the decades he amassed a wonderful collection. Eventually, the man’s beloved son was drafted into the military and sent to Vietnam, where he died while trying to save his friend. About a month after the war ended, a young man knocked on the devastated father’s door. “Sir,” he said, “I know that you like great art, and I have brought you something not very great.” Inside the package, the father found a portrait of his son. With tears running down his cheeks, the father said, “I want to pay you for this.ℍ “No,” the young man replied, “he saved my life. You don’t owe me anything.ℍ The father cherished the painting and put it in the center of his collection. Whenever people came to visit, he made them look at it. When the man died, his art collection went up for sale. A large crowd of enthusiastic collectors gathered. First up for sale was the amateur portrait. A wave of displeasure rippled through the crowd. “Let’s forget about that painting!” one said. “We want to bid on the valuable ones,” said another. Despite many loud complaints, the auctioneer insisted on starting with the portrait. Finally, the deceased man’s gardener said, “I’ll bid ten dollars.ℍ Hearing no further bids, the auctioneer called out, “Sold for ten dollars!” Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. But then the auctioneer said, “And that concludes the auction.” Furious gasps shook the room. The auctioneer explained, “Let me read the stipulation in the will: “Sell the portrait of my son first, and whoever buys it gets the entire art collection. Whoever takes my son gets everything.ℍ It’s the same way with God Almighty. Whoever takes his Son gets everything.”

Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)

Source: Through the Year with Jimmy Carter: 366 Daily Meditations from the 39th President

Life, God, War, People

“So with curious eyes and sick surmise
We watched him day by day,
And wondered if each one of us
Would end the self-same way,
For none can tell to what red Hell
His sightless soul may stray.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Way, Soul, Hell

“The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Depressing, God, Soul, Light

“What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

World

“Lord Illingworth: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden.
Mrs. Allonby: It ends with Revelations.”

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Act I
A Woman of No Importance (1893)

Life, Books

“Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Music, Dance

“After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.”

Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman

Willy
Death of a Salesman (1949)
Source: Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

Training, Dead

“This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”

T.S. Eliot book The Hollow Men

The Hollow Men (1925)

World, Way

“When I stand before thee at the day's end thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

290
Stray Birds (1916)

“Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Pnin

Source: Pnin

Hate, People, Feeling, Cheating

“A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

“OUR ORDINATION:

Sir Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1747
About the times of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition.”

Isaac Newton (1643–1727) British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern classical physics

Men, Time

“until the end of the world, all whys will be answered, but now, you can only ask!”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

Source: Bob Marley Talking

World

“All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“horses: dangerous on both ends and crafty in the middle”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author

Horse

“Death is part of who we are. It guides
us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end”

Christopher Paolini book Brisingr

Source: Brisingr

Death, Parting, Madness

“But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Beauty

“If you don’t change the direction you are going, then you’re likely to end up where you’re heading…”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

Change

“I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

“These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

Victory, Joy

“I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.”

Andy Rooney (1919–2011) writer, humorist, television personality

Life, Learning

“Only the dead are safe; only the dead have seen the end of war.”

George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism

Attributed to Plato by General Douglas MacArthur, earliest source found is work of George Santayana who doesn't attribute it to anyone. Plato and his dialogues by Bernard SUZANNE, "Frequently Asked Questions about Plato : Did Plato write "Only the dead have seen the end of war"?" http://plato-dialogues.org/faq/faq008.htm
Source: Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922), "Tipperary"

Wise, War, Dead

“The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) Abolitionist, author

The Pearl of Orr's Island : A Story of the Coast of Maine (1862).

Truth

“That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Madness

“Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

Source: The Beatles Anthology

Thinking, Decision

“There was no light at the end of the tunnel--or if there was, it was an oncoming train.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Variant: He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Light, Training

“Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.”

Joseph Campbell book Creative Mythology

Source: Creative Mythology

Life, Question

“I’d a million times rather live and risk and have it all end badly than stay in the box I’ve been in for the past two years.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Time, Past, Box

“Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed - while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.”

Vasily Grossman book Life and Fate

Source: Life and Fate

Life, Men

“You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.”

Rohinton Mistry (1952) Canadian writer

Hope, Question, Despair

“I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“What have I always believed?
That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.”

Terry Pratchett book Small Gods

Source: Small Gods

“Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.”

Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)

Joke during his 1965 campaign for Governor of California, as quoted by Leo E. Litwak in The New York Times Magazine (14 November 1965), p. 174 http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50F13FC3B591B7A93C6A8178AD95F418685F9. <br class="br">Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. <br class="br">As quoted in The Reagan Wit (1981) by Bill Adler, p. 30 <br class="br">1960s

Baby

“The words in this book are all phooey. When you say them, your lips will make slips and back flips and your tongue may end up in Saint Looey!”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

Books

“You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history”

Iain Banks (1954–2013) Scottish writer

History, Science, Reading

“I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end.”

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist

“Love knows no limit 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.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

Love, Hope

“I say, if your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Life

“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Pleasure

“Go on till you come to the end; then stop.”

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

“We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both Thieves of Always.”

Clive Barker book The Thief of Always

Source: The Thief of Always

Time

“To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will—we all do. How we view those problems determines how we end up. If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. “We can't win,” we moan. “They won't let us win.”However, if we choose to see the obstacles as hurdles, we can leap over them. Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.Whatever direction we choose, if we can realize that every hurdle we jump strengthens and prepares us for the next one, we're already on the way to success.”

Ben Carson book Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 232

People, Way, Problem, Thinking

“It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

God, Travel

“The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

Love, Marriage, Making love, Problem

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

Life, Way, Reality

“Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.”

Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher

Source: Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals/On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns

Way, Time, Personality

“Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

Source: What I Believe

Science

“… it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.”

Steve Martin book Shopgirl

Source: Shopgirl

Question, Heart, Hurt

“The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.”

George Burns (1896–1996) American comedian, actor, and writer

Secret

“Sometimes it's better to end something & try to start something new than imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible.”

Karen Salmansohn American writer

Hope

“In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Beyond Good and Evil

Source: Beyond Good and Evil

“In the end we always wear out our worries. That’s what Wireman says.”

Stephen King book Duma Key

Source: Duma Key

“378. Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein book On Certainty

On Certainty (1969)

Knowledge

“… a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.”

Virginia Woolf book A Room of One's Own

Source: A Room of One's Own

Books, Help

“My house completed, and tried and not found wanting by a first Cape Cod year, I went there to spend a fortnight in September. The fortnight ending, I lingered on, and as the year lengthened into autumn, the beauty and mystery of this earth and outer sea so possessed and held me that I could not go. The world to-day is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot. In my world of beach and dunes these elemental presences lived and had their being, and under their arch there moved an incomparable pageant of nature and the year.”

Henry Beston (1888–1968) American writer

Source: The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

World, Beauty, Autumn, Nature

“In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

Source: The Gay Science

Patience

“Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure.”

Terry Pratchett book Small Gods

Source: Small Gods

God, People

“The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!”

H.P. Lovecraft book Dagon

Fiction
Source: "Dagon" - Written Jul 1917; First published in The Vagrant, No. 11 (November 1919)

God

“In the end, I think the relationships that survive in this world are the ones where two people can finish each other's sentences. Forget drama and torrid sex and the clash of opposites. Give me banter any day of the week.”

Douglas Coupland Hey Nostradamus!

Source: Hey Nostradamus!

People, World, Sex, Thinking

“If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.”

Terry Pratchett book Going Postal

Source: Going Postal

People, World, Way, Change

“It’s possible, I’m moving through the hard veins of heavy mountains, like an arc, alone; I’m so deep inside, I see no end in sight, and no distance: everything is getting near and everything near is turning to stone.”

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer

Mountain

“In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 74

Universe, Night

“My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there.
At least that's what I would choose to believe.”

Barack Obama book Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Source: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

“The end of the world has come often, and continues to come.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

World

“Get up, go and be like him as much as one alive can be like the dead—without dying. Conceive him, yet be your death, too, almost. Like him be now, but only till the shadow of his end falls on the shadow of your being.”

David Grossman (1954) Israeli author

Source: Falling Out of Time

Death, Dead

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Moving On

“A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified”

Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) Marxist revolutionary from Russia

Source: Their Morals and Ours (1938)
Context: A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified, From the Marxist point of view, which expresses the historical interests of the proletariat, the end is justified if it leads to increasing the power of man over nature and to the abolition of the power of man over man.

“The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.”

Terry Pratchett book Snuff

Source: Snuff

World

“My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll

Life, Time, Madness

“Explaining that I'm faced with a choice between being with the love of my life, or saving four lives that were never meant to end.”

Alyson Nöel book Blue Moon

Source: Blue Moon

Love, Life

“Life is like crossing a river. If you take a huge step-aim for too bigger dreams-then the current will knock you off your feet and carry you away.
The way to do it is small steps, you will take hold of life. You will get there in the end.”

Louis Sachar (1954) American writer of children's books

Life, Dreams, Way

“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.”

Immanuel Kant book Critique of Pure Reason

B 730; Variant translation: All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Variant: All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
Source: Critique of Pure Reason (1781; 1787)

Understanding, Knowledge, Sense

“I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest