Quotes About End

Life, Garp wrote, is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory.

As Garp put it, 'You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.' Even if these so-called endings and beginnings are illusions.

Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me the most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

Das Leben ist leider nicht so gebaut wie ein guter, altmodischer Roman. Vielmehr endet es, wenn sich diejenigen, die sich erschöpfen sollen, erschöpft haben. Alles, was bleibt, ist die Erinnerung.

What would bring the Confederacy to an inglorious end was the same thing that had so foolishly created it a rigidity of thought, a clinging to old ways, a refusal to adapt and change.

We don't consider any man successful until he has died well.

It will all end very badly, Gus

Men of genius do not destroy themselves along with so many others and invite such a dismal end.

But that was the nature of love: one did not offer it with any assurance that it would change the world, even if in the end it was the only thing that could.

I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.

Augustine concluded that war, if necessary to save the state, could be a lesser evil than peace—and that the procedural prerequisites for necessity could be stated. Had provocation occurred? Had competent authority exhausted peaceful alternatives? Would the resort to violence be a means chosen, not an end in itself?

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!

Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!

The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?

The only place where you can find equality is in the cemetery.

I directed an episode of 'Party of Five' toward the very end of that show. It was a great experience.

Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.

Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.

There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.

I testify that bad days come to an end, that faith always triumphs, and that heavenly promises are always kept.

Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

Dreams, they do not continue because of their broken heart overwhelms their hope. They do not have any inner strength to carry them through to the end.

You stole my heart then tore it apart. I guess some things don't end as they start.