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Quotes About End

If the purpose of life was just to continue into the future, then none of it would have meaning, because it would be all anticipation and preparation. There's fruition, Grego. There's the happiness we've already had. The happiness of each moment. The end of our lives, even if there's no forward continuation, no progeny at all, the end of our lives doesn't erase the beginning.
~ Orson Scott Card
Love is easily killed.
~ Oscar Wilde
On the back of Sir Richard Frances Burton's compass he engraved an inscription from the Qur'an: Travel through the earth and see what was the end of those who rejected Truth.
~ Colum McCann
The river is not where it begins or ends, but right in the middle point, anchored by what has happened and what is to arrive.
~ Colum McCann
Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing.
~ Confucius
It is the end of the world. Surely you could be allowed a few carnal thoughts.
~ Connie Willis
We weren't even a halfway decent detectin' team. We hadn't solved the case. The case had been solved in spite of us. Worse, we had been such an impediment, we'd had to be packed off out of the way before the course of history could correct itself. This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but an elopement.
~ Connie Willis
They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
~ Cormac McCarthy
And so these parties divided upon that midnight plain, each passing back the way the other had come, pursuing as all travelers must inversions without end upon other men's journeys.
~ Cormac McCarthy
When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I think our time is up. I know. Hold my hand. Hold your hand? Yes. I want you to. All right. Why? Because that's what people do when they're waiting for the end of something.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The sun was just down and to the west lay reefs of bloodred clouds up out of which rose little desert nighthawks like fugitives from some great fire at the earth's end.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Always so deliberate, hardly surprised by the most outlandish advents. A creation perfectly evolved to meet its own end. They sat at the window and ate in their robes by candlelight a midnight supper and watched distant cities burn.
~ Cormac McCarthy
All through the long dusk
~ Cormac McCarthy
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.
~ Cormac McCarthy
She said: Sheriff how come you to let crime get so out of hand in your county? Sounded like a fair question I reckon. Maybe it was a fair question. Anyway I told her, I said: It starts when you begin to overlook bad manners. Any time you quit hearin Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Those whom life does not cure death will.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Pues cada fuego es todos los fuegos, el primer fuego y el último que habrá nunca.
~ Cormac McCarthy
And so these parties divided upon that midnight plain, each passing back the way the other had come, pursuing as all travelers must inversions without end upon other men's journeys. X
~ Cormac McCarthy
And so these parties divided upon that midnight plain, each passing back the way the other had come, pursuing as all travelers must inversions without end upon other men's journeys.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Letzte Worte sind auch nur Worte.
~ Cormac McCarthy
How these things end. In confusion and curses and blood.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Once upon a time...There's a reason all fairy tales begin like this. But the 'and they lived happily ever after' at the end? That has to be earned.
~ Cornelia Funke
Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but don't come back, ok?
~ Cornelia Funke