Quotes About End

Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding.

There are many American conservatives, including those influenced by the Roman Catholic tradition of natural law philosophy, who believe that, in the end, the conservative position rests on theological foundations.

Death is the only limit to the road you travel.

As there is a time for everything, there is a time also for the end of anything. This is an age for the consolidation of man's gains upon this world. This is a time for the sharing of knowledge, not the crossing of blades.

How long will you plague me, brother? How far must I go to bring it to an end between us?

It would seem we have small chance but to be dutiful in the end.

You always surprise me-right at the end.

But in the end, time is a noose around the neck, strangling slowly.

I myself cannot construct my love story to the end. I am its poet (its bard) only for the beginning; the end, like my own death, belongs to others; it is up to them to write the fiction, the external, mythic narrative.

I myself cannot (as an enamored subject) construct my love story to the end: I am its poet (its bard) only for the beginning; the end, like my own death, belongs to others; it is up to them to write the fiction, the external, mythic narrative.

What wounds me are the forms of the relations, its images; or rather, what others call form I experience as force. The image--as the example for the excessive--*is the thing itself*. The lover is thus an artist; and his world is in fact a world reversed, since in it each image is its own end (nothing beyond the image).

Hamilton alone seemed resigned as the end neared. At one point, speaking of politics, he said, "If they break this union, they will break my heart."69 He could have left no more fitting political epitaph.

Most revealing is how the letter ends—with Jack portraying himself and Fanny as common victims of Pierpont.

In the words of Howell Cobb of Georgia, who helped to create the Confederacy, "The day you make soldiers of [slaves] is the beginning of the end of the revolution. If slaves will make good soldiers, our whole theory of slavery is wrong—but they won't make good soldiers.

giving him more generous sympathy than he received in return, although the relationship would become somewhat more equal toward the end of Pierpont's life.

Till the very end, he saw the producers' outrage against him as shot through with envy and hypocrisy.

For some days past there has been little less than a famine in the camp," Washington said in mid-February. Before winter's end, some 2,500 men, almost a quarter of the army, perished from disease, famine, or the cold.

nuestro universo desaparecerá tan abruptamente como, probablemente, empezó.

Yet, in the end, we don't believe in creation just because it is more likely scientifically. We believe in creation because we trust what God has revealed to us in the Bible.

There was mist in the nighttime air, like a note on a calendar. The end of summer was coming. Fall was on its way.

A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love

That period had been the peak of his life, though he had not realized it then. It had gone by without time for reflection, ending while he was still thinking things were going to get better.

Annoyed that although outlawed in Rome, astrology was nevertheless alive and well, Cicero noted that at Cannae in 216 B.C., Hannibal, leading about 50,000 Carthaginian and allied troops, crushed the much larger Roman army, slaughtering more than 60,000 of its 80,000 soldiers. "Did all the Romans who fell at Cannae have the same horoscope?" Cicero asked. "Yet all had one and the same end.