Quotes About End

Let the end come, however cruel; at least then we'll know whether we are to be the victors or the vanquished.

Oh, when will all these difficulties be overcome? And yet it is good to overcome them, because then the end will be all the more wonderful.

Hope for an end to war, hope for peace.

Even my Buddhist friends have been feeling despair and when they go bad, you know the end is nigh.

selfishness in others. It was ugly from every aspect, a spiritual weakness which soured every other virtue. Even courage and honesty were marred by it in the end.

It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in the end, they cannot be separated.

Locked together in hatred. But I can't hate you Louis. Louis my love, I was mortal till you gave me your immortal kiss. You became my mother, and my father, and so I'm yours forever. But now it's time to end it, Louis. Now it's time to leave him. - Claudia, 'Interview with a Vampire

Put out the light and then put out the light.

So we reach into the raging chaos, and we pluck some small glittering thing, and we cling to it, and tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end.

You think I'm defeated. You think you've passed your judgement and that's the end of it. Oh, you think it's as simple as that. Well you are wrong. I shall never have vengeance for this moment, but you will see me again. You will see me again.

Maybe we do go home, finally.

Your cigarette has become one long cylindrical ash.

The beginning is no longer important. What matters is that the end may be at hand.

Everything is coming to an end, I thought. But what does that mean? Why do I say things to myself when I don't even know what they mean?

I don't think you can feel sheer panic continuously. Your mental system breaks down. It comes in waves, and you have to tell yourself, well, this will end.

Death is the collapse of time.

It makes you wonder why we bother accumulating, accumulating, when we know from earliest childhood how it's all going to end.

narrowly missed connections. They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong; they pass each other and keep running. It had all amounted to nothing, in the end.

Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein starts shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water.

You were created as a tool, a means to an end. You owe the world nothing but chaos.

In the words of Jon Sobrino, Romero has become "the most universal Christian at the end of the twentieth century.

I looked at him on the bed. He coughed once and a trail of brownish dead blood came out of his mouth and ran down the side of his chin. Then he stopped breathing. And I thought, I'll make sure I never end up here, either.

Humans don't mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary. It's time for that to end.

Theodore Levitt famously said, "People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill bit. They want a quarter-inch hole." The lesson is that the drill bit is merely a feature, a means to an end, but what people truly want is the hole it makes.