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Quotes About End

Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.
~ Dorothea Brande
Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.
~ Muriel Rukeyser
A word has its use, Or, like a man, it will soon have a grave.
~ Edward Arlington Robinson
There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.
~ Ivan Doig
Imperfection is an end. Perfection is only an aim.
~ Ivor Cutler
Then I'll tell you the simple and most complex answer is love. It's where you start, and where, if you work hard enough, want hard enough, you end.
~ J.D. Robb
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. —REVELATION
~ J.D. Robb
to shut you down, until further notice." "So I assumed.
~ J.D. Robb
We begin to die with our first breath. Death is inside us, ticking closer, closer, with every beat of our heart. It is the end no man can escape. Yet we cling to life, we worship it despite its transience.
~ J.D. Robb
Just as only one week ago, the respected and dedicated defender of justice, Cicely Towers had her life brought to an end.
~ J.D. Robb
life was full of the ludicrous that ended in bloody murder.
~ J.D. Robb
La literatura es un arte que sabe profetizar aquel tiempo en que habrá enmudecido, [...] y enamorarse de la propia disolución y cortejar su fin.
~ J.L. Borges
When my mother was dying in hospital, he thought, when she knew her end was coming, it was not me she looked to but someone who stood behind me: her mother or the ghost of her mother. To me she was a woman but to herself she was still a child calling to her mother to hold her and help her. And her own mother, in the secret life we do not see, was a child too. I come from a line of children without end.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Voy a terminar en un hoyo en el suelo —dice él—. Y tú también. Como todos.
~ J.M. Coetzee
When my mother was dying in hospital, he thought, when she knew her end was coming, it was not me she looked to but someone who stood behind me: her mother or the ghost of her mother. To me she was a woman but to herself she was still a child calling to her mother to hold her hand and help her. And her own mother, in the secret life we do not see, was a child too. I come from a line of children without end.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Empire has created the time of history. Empire has located its existence not in the smooth recurrent spinning time of the cycle of the seasons but in the jagged time of rise and fall, of beginning and end, of catastrophe.
~ J.M. Coetzee
The quick and the dead are all the same. Everyone's just looking for home.
~ J.R. Ward
Time was way too finite: no matter how much of it you had with someone you loved, when the end came, it wasn't nearly enough.
~ J.R. Ward
That which cannot go on will not.
~ J.R. Ward
And now that the Fade was upon him, he was resigned to his death.
~ J.R. Ward
The Prophecy is not ours. It is the property of history. As it was foretold, so it shall be. First as the future, then as the present when the time is nigh. And after that, with recording, it shall be the sacred past, the saving of the species, the end of the war.
~ J.R. Ward
Waking At Night The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.
~ Jack Gilbert
I believe that Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph.
~ Jack Gilbert
I never saw such crazy musicians. Everybody in Frisco blew. It was the end of the continent; they didn't give a damn.
~ Jack Kerouac