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Quotes About End

I believe that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of [man's] puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.
~ William Faulkner
But that competitor was Death, and Roger Shumann lost.
~ William Faulkner
é preciso duas pessoas para fazer alguém, e uma para morrer. é assim que o mundo vai acabar.
~ William Faulkner
But I don't trust that some last convulsive urge to short-term profit, some terminal shortsightedness, mightn't bring an end to everything.
~ William Gibson
The biosphere only survives, today, by virtue of what prosthetic assistance we can afford it. The assemblers might keep that going, were the klept to founder. But I don't trust that some last convulsive urge to short-term profit, some terminal short-sightedness, mightn't bring an end to everything.
~ William Gibson
The sound it made was like a world ending, like the wires that hold heaven snapping and coiling across the sky
~ William Gibson, Burning Chrome
You haven't got it with you,' said Jack, sneering. 'You left it behind. See, clever? And the conch doesn't count at this end of the island—
~ William Golding
It must have been fifty seconds before Doc died. Long time.
~ William Goldman
Worse, he died. Mr. Shog, I mean. (Don't ask how you could tell. It was easy. One morning he just stopped sweating, so there it was.)
~ William Goldman
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
~ William Hazlitt
The immutable, awful quiet of a dying world.
~ William Hope Hodgson
The means have murdered the end.
~ William James
So what's your alternative?" people say, as if that's logic. We don't have to have an alternative, that's not how critique works. We may do, and if we do, you're welcome, but if we don't that no more invalidates our hate for this, for what is, than does that of a serf for her lord, her flail-backed insistence that this must end, whether or not she accompanies it with a blueprint for free wage labor.
~ China Mieville
So what's your alternative?' people say, as if that's logic. We don't have to have an alternative, that's not how critique works. We may do, and if we do, you're welcome, but if we don't that no more invalidates our hate for this, for what is, than does that of a serf for her lord, her flail-backed insistence that this must end, whether or not she accompanies it with a blueprint for free wage labour.
~ China Mieville
I mean I know some of this lot are just villains, you know, just bad boys, but it all comes down to the god stuff in the end.
~ China Mieville
An everyday Doomsayer in sandwich board abruptly walked away from what, over the last several days, had been his pitch, by the gates of a museum. The sign on his front was an oldschool Prophecy of the End. The one bobbing on his back read 'forget it.
~ China Mieville
This is kraken year zero," Moore said. "This is Anno Teuthis. We're in the end times. What d'you think's been going on?
~ China Mieville
You'd love a bit of pomp: that way in later years you might invoke end-of-empire ghosts.
~ China Mieville
Create a need for closure.
~ Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Were all on a golden journey-every one of us. A journey inspired by golden dreams, and at the end awaits a golden crown of righteousness....please remember that every step is to be cherished. Every single one...
~ Chris Heimerdinger
When Death comes, I want to be ready.
~ Chris Smith
I've witnessed a lot of young people dying, mostly from gunshot wounds. Ain't no bravery like in the movies. Everybody cries when they realize it's the end. Everybody.
~ Chris Wilson
In the middle of a war you think of nothing but how it will end. And put off living. When large numbers of people do that, it creates a vacuum within us which the war flows in to fill.
~ Christa Wolf
Asi no se puede vivir ¿Vivir? Morir sí Niña. Tu quieres acabar con todo. Eso quiero. Porque no conozco otro medio para que los hombres acaben.
~ Christa Wolf