Quotes About End

First things were good, last things not so much so.

Fanning Court. God forbid. Teddy could no longer sit in the chair. He could no longer leave the bed, no longer do anything. He was approaching the end of his twilight, entering into the final darkness. Viola imagined the synapses in her father's brain flaring and dimming like the slow death of a star. Soon Teddy would burn out completely and implode and become a black hole. Viola was hazy on the subject of astrophysics, but she liked the image.

Civilizations rose and fell and in the end everything was dust and sand. Nothing beside remained. Hotels, maybe.

The man committing suicide controls the moment of his death by executing a back flip.

The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.

The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

A dying man can do nothing easy.

There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable.

Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.

We can all do something to help end domestic violence. A Real Man would never abuse his partner or children, and I am proud to put my name to the Women's Aid Real Man campaign.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily to great talkers--in hopes, I suppose, to put an end to the argument.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.

When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, "He is better off."

It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.

I have just come up with a wonderful solution to end all wars. Let me give directions on how to get there.

Dead men have no victory.

I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.

There is not a man born among us who dreams—at first—of service, although in the end, many are bent that way.

It's kind of glorious to say, "Oh man, this guy had his career cut short." I'm not calling myself Sandy Koufax by any means. I'm not in that caliber at all, but sometimes it has to end different.

I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.

Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid.