Quotes About End

It's called a culling song. In some ancient culture, they sang it to children during famines or droughts, anytime the tribe had outgrown its land. It was sung to warriors injured in accidents or the very old or anyone dying. It was used to end misery and pain. It's a lullaby.

On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero.

In them and between them flourished the heat of life, the madness of love, and the sudden absolute certainty of the end of all that they knew.

Because we all end up in the dirt at the end.

What is a bow and arrow? It is the beginning of the end. It is the winding path that grows to the roaring road of war. It is a plaything and a weapon and a triumph in human engineering. It is the first faint stirring of an atom bomb.

O little one, My little one, Come with me, Your life is done. Forget the future, Forget the past. Life is over: Breathe your last.

Journey to the end of day, Come the fire-fly, Come the moon; Say a prayer for God's good grace And sleep with lore upon your face.

Let the void come, and bring an end to the tyranny of hope.

The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment; of Reformation; of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire. And after this, an end to Ages; an end, perhaps, to everything.

Was that the point about scattering ashes: that in the end they looked the same? Not just the snout and the tail, but a dog's ashes and a man's ashes. All reducible, with the addition of a little flame, to this mottled dust?

So let it do its worst, if that at the last was inevitable. Let the void come, and bring an end to the tyranny of hope.

Spring, if it lingers more than a week beyond its span, starts to hunger for summer to end the days of perpetual promise

There was time for all their miracles now. For ghosts and transformations; for passion and ambiguity; for noonday visions and midnight glory. Time in abundance. For nothing ever begins. And this story, having no beginning, will have no end

When a holy was is declared, the end justifies any means to those crusaders.

Bitince yenisine ba?lars?n,' dedi. 'Ama bu daha bitmedi.

He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last.

only when a man dies can his life acquire a beginning, middle, and an end: up until then we are constantly unfinished, even the midpoint cannot be located. So only the final word finds the middle word and this, in a way becomes a verse--one's death explains oneself.

With the end of uncertainty there came the uncertainty of the end

After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.

So that was the end of that marriage.

When the white arm rests upon the knee it is a triangle; now it is upright - a column; now a fountain, falling. It makes no sign, it does not beckon, it does not see us. Behind it roars the sea. It is beyond our reach. Yet there I venture. There I go to replenish my emptiness, to stretch my nights and fill them fuller and fuller with dreams. And for a second even now, even here, I reach my object and say, "Wander no more. All is trial and make-believe. Here is the end.

Always, Mrs Ramsay felt, one helped oneself out of solitude reluctantly by laying hold of some little odd or end, some sound, some sight.

After that, how unbelievable death was! - that it must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all; how, every instant . . .

there is no end to the pathetic devices of the human imagination - over other people