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Quotes About End

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
~ John Heywood
Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.
~ Abu Bakr
Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.
~ William Ames
I wanted to end my career still at the highest level, and Bayern is the highest level.
~ Xabi Alonso
Birth was the death of him.
~ Samuel Beckett
With him all is simplicity of purpose and meaning and effort and end-namely, that we should be as he is, think the same thoughts, mean the same things, possess the same blessedness. It is so plain that any one may see it, every one ought to see it, every one shall see it. It must be so. He is utterly true and good to us, nor shall anything withstand his will.
~ George MacDonald
The main secret of his progress, the secret of all wisdom, was, that with him action was the beginning and end of thought.
~ George MacDonald
Therefore I have been training him for a work that must soon be done. I was near losing him, and had to send my pigeon. Had he not shot it, that would have been better; but he repented, and that shall be as good in the end.
~ George MacDonald
For the end of imagination is harmony.
~ George MacDonald
The end was contained in the beginning.
~ George Orwell
For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.
~ George Orwell
And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots.
~ George Orwell
What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the second had been the opening of the diary. He had moved from thoughts to words, and now from words to actions. The last step was something that would happen in the Ministry of Love. He had accepted it. The end was contained in the beginning.
~ George Orwell
no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
~ George Orwell
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
~ George Orwell
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictator-ship.
~ George Orwell
I guess you just have to trust your kids, trust that their innate interest in life will win out in the end, don't you think?
~ George Saunders
At the core of each lay suffering; our eventual end, the many losses we must experience on the way to that end.
~ George Saunders
At the core of each lay suffering; our eventual end, the many losses we must experience on the way to that end We must try to see one another in this way. As suffering, limited beings-- Perennially outmatched by circumstance, inadequately endowed with compensatory graces.
~ George Saunders
At the core of each lay suffering; our eventual end; the many loses we must experience on the way to that end. We must try to see one another in this way. As suffering limited beings- Perennially outmatched by circumstance, inadequately endowed with compensatory graces.
~ George Saunders
All were in sorrow, or had been, or soon would be. It was the nature of things. Though on the surface is seemed every person was different, this was not true. At the core of each lay suffering; our eventual end; the many loses we must experience on the way to that end. We must try to see one another in this way. As suffering limited beings- Perennially outmatched by circumstance, inadequately endowed with compensatory graces.
~ George Saunders
From the moment you become a spectator, everything is downhill. It is a life that ends before the cheering and the shouting die.
~ George Sheehan
El tiempo que vela todo, ha dado la solución a tu pesar. El tiempo, que conoce la respuesta, ha seguido transcurriendo. En un día como éste, algo más tarde o más temprano, todo vuelve a empezar, todo empieza , todo continúa. Deja de hablar como un hombre que sueña.
~ Georges Perec
What Zograffi would have to realize was that Elie had come to the end, and there was no farther-on for him. Nothing. Emptiness. They could do anything to him they liked. They could prescribe any punishment. But they mustn't force him to leave. That was beyond him. he would rather sit down on the curbstone and let himself die there in the sun. He was tired. For the others, for a man like Zograffi, did that word have the terrible significance it had for him?
~ Georges Simenon