Quotes About End

For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he knows he is at the end. If a lion chases you to the bank of a river filled with crocodiles, you will leap into the water convinced you have a chance to swim to the other side. But you would not accept such odds if there were no lion.

I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.

Business is but a means. To forget this, and to live for it and in it, as an end, is a cardinal and pernicious mistake, to which much of the want of elevation in the mercantile character is to be ascribed.

The doctor] asked if I knew what might be causing my headaches. I looked her squarely in the face and said to her directly: "Yes, I hate my mother." That was the end of the interview. That was also the end of my visits to the doctor. That was not the end of my headaches.

Death is almost never timely, even for the old.

Have you ever heard a note in someone's voice that said 'This is the end?' I heard it in the next words he said to me, and I stopped listening.

Many years later he insisted, 'They knew it was the end when I was with them'; that evening, though the words remained resolutely unspoken, everyone had a clear sense of what might lie ahead.

Then let the Son of God awaken from his sleep, and opening his holy eyes return again to bless the world he made. In error it began. But it will end in the reflection of his holiness. And he will sleep no more and dream of death.

The purpose of time is to enable man to learn to use it constructively. Time is thus a teaching device and a means to an end. It will cease when it is no longer useful in facilitating learning.

The greatest deed in war is the speediest end of that war, and every means to that end must remain open.

My silent comrade, who is making great strides with lowered head, points out a field: "The cemetery," he says; "it was there before it was everywhere, before it laid hold on everything without end, like a plague.

La primera mirada es tan imposible de conocer como la última.

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

The end we know not; but we wander on, down the regretful wilderness of time.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

If you are afraid of death, you are afraid of life, for living your life leads to death. Until you face death and see its beauty, you will be afraid to really live—you will never properly burn the candle for fear of its end.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

Love is greater than faith, because the end is greater than the means. What is the use of having faith? It is to connect the soul with God. And what is the object of connecting man with God? That he may become like God. But God is Love. Hence Faith, the means, is in order to Love, the end. Love, therefore, obviously is greater than faith. "If I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying which is terrible.

The end of money is not ease but the opportunity to perform more service.