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Quotes About End

Invoke not reason. In the end it is too small a deity.
~ Alan Moore
We are heading for a radical revision where you could say we are heading towards the end of the world, but more in the R.E.M. sense than the revelation sense. That is what apocalypse means - revelation.
~ Alan Moore
See, as it happens, I've got a couple of front row tickets for the end of the universe. I thought it'd be best to use them now. I mean, you never know... There may not be a second performance.
~ Alan Moore
Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
~ Alan Paton
It is not entirely impossible that I might, like my mother, come to the end of my days murmuring, about some random memory: "It was absolutely divine.
~ Diana Athill
Her future will have been brought to a sad end if it is not incessantly, daily decorated.
~ Diane Williams
From the song, Is it love? If time helps the pain, my heart is counting the hours. And if the sun always follows the rain, My heart waits, For the end, Of the showers. If it hurts this bad, is it love?
~ Dickie Alan
Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet knowing that he is in the middle, coming from the beginning and going towards the end. He sees that his life is determined by these two facets, of which he knows only that he does not know them
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
For we cannot speak of the beginning; where the beginning begins our thinking stops, it comes to an end.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Our church, which has been fighting in these years only for its self-preservation, as though that were an end in itself, is incapable of taking the word of reconciliation and redemption to mankind and the world.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Where the beginning begins, there our thinking stops; there it comes to an end.121
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Happiness is love's outcome, never its motive. Where someone is loved he is an end in himself and certainly not a means toward something else. It is therefore of love's essence, wherever it is found, that the loved one seem precious, beautiful, and worthy of love.
~ Dietrich von Hildebrand
To make peace is not a passive endeavor, but rather an activist mindset that works toward the end of conflict. In our world, it is not the soldier but the activist who calls for peace.
~ Dillon Burroughs
Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
~ Djuna Barnes
I went into a lather of misery watching them, and thinking of you, and how in the end you'll all be locked together, like the poor beasts that get their antlers mixed and are found dead that way, their heads fattened with a knowledge of each other that they never wanted, having had to contemplate each other, head-on, eye to eye, until death; well, that will be you and Jenny and Robin.
~ Djuna Barnes
Our family discussed the Revolution of 1905 constantly. I was born after that, but the stories deeply affected my imagination. When I was older, I read much about how it all had happened. It think that it was a turning point -- the people stopped believing in the tsar. The Russian people are always like that -- they believe and they believe and then suddenly it comes to an end. And the ones the people no longer believe in come to a bad end.
~ Dmitri Shostakovich
for a purpose without reason
~ Donald Kingsbury
If you don't believe others can end your suffering, why believe they can end your happiness?
~ Donald L. Hicks
[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.
~ Sadegh Hedayat
The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
~ Samuel Beckett, Endgame
These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end.
~ William C. Bryant
If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.
~ A.C. Grayling
At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.
~ John of the Cross