Quotes About End

If I have to die, then it's best to do so before I see everything I love, the land, the animals, the people, all of it destroyed.

Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.

Everybody's dying, she said. Just pick a disease.

But our memory, a function of System 1, has evolved to represent the most intense moment of an episode of pain or pleasure (the peak) and the feelings when the episode was at its end.

Natürlich, es ist das Ende, und wir sterben. Aber das heißt nicht, dass wir nicht noch lange da sein, andere Menschen finden, spazierengehen, nachts träumen und alles erledigen können, was eine Marionette so tut.

Part of the myth of Persian benevolence is the idea of an end to the exile in 539. But all that was ended was Neo-Babylonian hegemony, to be replaced by that of the Persians. (p. 65)

People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be means to that end.

It is a truism that no profession welcomes the end of the work week with more anticipation than teachers.

Megiddo, the hillock where, according to the Book of Revelation, Christ and Satan would wage a climactic duel that would bring about the end of days.

But would it be too much to ask for them to stop hating us? Why is anti-Semitism on the rise again in Europe? Why is it not safe to be a Jew in this country? Why has the shame of the Holocaust worn off? Why won't it ever end?

I'm afraid life doesn't work that way, Eli." "I suppose not. But would it be too much to ask for them to stop hating us? Why is anti-Semitism on the rise again in Europe? Why is it not safe to be a Jew in this country? Why has the shame of the Holocaust worn off? Why won't it ever end?

Volodya being an accidental president, do you, Allon? It was a straight KGB operation from beginning to end. Nothing was left to chance.

saber cómo acaba la vida solo conseguiría estropear la historia.

We are tempted to think that we have reached the end of history, that it can never happen again. But history is made every day, sometimes by men of evil. And all too often, history repeats itself. (Holy Father, the Pope)

You can't play the role of a victim all your life without becoming one in the end.

something—to make something right and final—is to kill it.

It is as if all four of them are waiting something out, as if none of them wants the night to end. Morning has sprouted, pale and winking, by the time they say goodbye.

he wondered if it was even possible to have happiness in a story, when one was required to imagine both a beginning and an end.

I found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.

wars are like love affairs—easy to start, hard to end, and outrageously expensive.

History is not a novel that unfolds according to established rules. But it is also not a book, rejoined Isak Levi, that can be leafed through now from the beginning, then from the end.

my grandfather is right, then death is only going to be a doorway from this world into Heaven. And if he's wrong, then it's simply going to be the end of my consciousness. I won't feel anything, I won't know that I'm dead, I will just come to an end.

T]he end cannot justify the means; but if there are no other means, and the end is necessary...

Life is very marvelous ... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.