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Quotes About End

This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo,And we been pilgrymes, passing to and fro.Deeth is an ende of every worldly soore.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
We succumb at the end and are resorbed by the cosmos, itself a great and dying corpse. It's a noble fate and should be faced with nobility.
~ Geoffrey Litwack
But it does mean we should be wary about "using" our relationships with churchless friends as means to the end of getting them to church.
~ George Barna
You must understand the nature of a thing before you can end its existence.
~ Ilona Andrews
As I moved, darkness rolled across the floor, walls, and ceiling, a menacing shadow of my power. The light dimmed. The constellations died, snuffed out by my presence. Watch me as I end your universe.
~ Ilona Andrews
I have no desire to dramatically unsheathe my hair weapons and end up with half of my hair sliced off and a giant bald spot.
~ Ilona Andrews
A league of a special sort must . . . be established, one that we can call a league of peace, which will be distinguished from a treaty of peace because the latter seeks merely to stop one war, while the former seeks to end all wars forever.
~ Immanuel Kant
N]ature generally in the distribution of her capacities has adapted the means to the end... [so nature's] true destination must be to produce a will, not merely good as a means to something else, but good in itself, for which reason was... imparted to us as a practical... absolutely necessary... faculty.
~ Immanuel Kant
For morality, with regard to its principles of public right (hence in relation to a political code which can be known a priori), has the peculiar feature that the less it makes its conduct depend upon the end it envisages (whether this be a physical or moral advantage), the more it will in general harmonise with this end.
~ Immanuel Kant
The large majority wanted to be at home at the end of life, only 1 percent said they would prefer being in a hospital, and not a single participant wanted to be in a nursing home at the end of life.
~ Ira Byock
Our planet is a freak which we shall destroy by our own wicked senseless activities in the next century. Our history will very soon come to an end. Now that God is dead, we are at last presented with the truth, yes, the truth remains, but it is on a short lead. Anyway, we are nothing and it matters not what we do.
~ Iris Murdoch
So, in a curious lurid calm which could not last and yet, it seemed, could not end, the days went by.
~ Iris Murdoch
We shall meet, but as strangers. It is the end of an era. A whole part of my life is torn away.
~ Iris Murdoch
Perhaps in the end the suffering is all, it's all contained in the suffering. The final atoms of it all are simply pain.
~ Iris Murdoch
If only it were over, done, without the awful doing of it.
~ Iris Murdoch
Perhaps this 'dead' feeling was also brought on by an intensification of her old secret sorrow. Perhaps one day this sorrow might end. But she did not think it would end or see how it could end.
~ Iris Murdoch
She must not be tempted by truthfulness, she must play the game out to the end.
~ Iris Murdoch
With strong magnetic force the human heart is drawn to consolation; and even grieving becomes consolation in the end.
~ Iris Murdoch
Love can end. That's just one of the horrors of human life.
~ Iris Murdoch
I wonder if this is the end, thought Ducane, and if so what it will all have amounted to. How tawdry and small it has all been.
~ Iris Murdoch
It ceased at last, as everything dreadful has to cease, even if it ceases only by death.
~ Iris Murdoch
Can one, in such a self-portrait, omit something which affected one's whole being and which one has thought of every day of one's life? 'Every day' exaggerates, but not much. I do not need to 'recall' Hartley, she is here. She is my end and my beginning, she is alpha and omega.
~ Iris Murdoch
me doy cuenta de que por lo general la muerte es un proceso, más que un suceso. Generalmente la gente se muere poco a poco, acumulativamente. Se pudren lentamente en residencias u hospitales, o sitios como éste
~ Irvine Welsh
The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity
~ Isaac Asimov