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Quotes About End

There is but one fountain of comfort for a man drawing near to his end, and that is the Bible. ...All comfort from any other source is a house built upon sand.
~ J. C. Ryle
The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.
~ Epicurus
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.
~ H. L. Mencken
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.
~ Max Frisch
The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.
~ Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.
~ John Owen
We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
~ Aeschylus
If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.
~ Aristotle
All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.
~ Blaise Pascal
Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
~ Charles Horton Cooley
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
~ Henry Wotton
Typical Cowboy,"she muttered. "The world could be coming to an end and you wouldn't go outside to watch without your hat." ... "You got that right.
~ Terri Farley
While Steve cooked dinner, I sat at one end of the sofa. Rosie lay coiled at the other. I eyed her suspiciously. She eyed me the same way, both of us hoping that we each didn't just suddenly fling ourselves at the other in attack.
~ Terri Irwin
Life is a road... a wild and wearying road... and I've reached the end. Death is like an old friend, waiting at the end, to wrap me in his arms.
~ Terry Deary
there will come a day when this war shall end and we will have the sunlight on our faces again.
~ Tess Uriza Holthe
In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
~ The Beatles
And In the End, the Love We Take Is Equal To the Love We Make.
~ The Beatles
Death is one of the most cretin things in live we have to prepare ourselves for it one day
~ the omani shed
In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than the glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
Whoever allows the cognition of the increase of horror to escape them, does not merely fall prey to cold-hearted contemplation, but fails to recognize, along with the specific difference of what is newest from what has gone before, simultaneously the true identity of the whole, of horror without end.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
En philosophie se confirme une expérience que Schönberg nota à propos de la théorie traditionnelle de la musique : on n'y a pprend vraiment que la façon dont un mouvement commence et se termine, rien sur lui-même, sur son développement. De manière analogue, il faudrait que la philosophie ne se ramène pas à des catégories mais en un certain sens qu'elle se mette à composer.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end.
~ Theodore Roethke