End Quotes
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"It's better to burn out than to fade away."
"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead."
"You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves."
"When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side."
"Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life."
"End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take."
"Life's just a bunch of accidents, connected by one perfect end."
"My coffee gets increasingly better the more I drink and the closer I come to the bottom of the cup, where all the sugar is. I wonder if life is the same way as we approach the end."
"They'll say you are bador perhaps you are mador at least you should stay undercover.Your mind must be bareif you would dareto think you can love more than one lover."
"No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it"
"Death isn't the end, it's the beginning."
"As the earth dies your spirit will bloom; as the world fades your soul will rise and glisten. Amongst the dehydrated crevices of a desert earth you will stumble upon your diamonds; in between the dry skulls and cracked bones you will find your sapphires."
"At dawn of man, many words of inspiration.At the end, there will be words of revelation."
"In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, "Is this all?"
"What a waste of time."
"Like taking candy from a baby."
"I... am the greatest!"
"Well, have you fallen for me yet?"
"It's not in my nature to lose!"
"Let us pray for those who've passed."
"That was one hard fought battle."
"Never underestimate the Royal House!"
"I wish I was stronger."
"Have I become stronger?"
"Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end."
"You only value something if you know it’ll end."
"More I get to know people, the more I tend to end up odd."
"Promise me you’ll marry me. Not now. Someday. Because I need to know.”Claire felt a flutter inside, like a bird trying to fly, and a rush of heat that made her dizzy. And something else, something fragile as a soap bubble,and just as beautiful. Joy, in the middle of all this horror and heartbreak.“Yes,” she whispered back. “I promise.”And she kissed him, and kissed him, and kissed him, while the sun came up and bathed Morganville in one last, shining day."
"Just because you came to the end of your rope, doesn't mean that you were climbing down."
"We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening."
"However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the end."
"In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end."
"The greatness of God knows no end."
"A moment’s beginning ends in a moment"
"In case you’re short on definitions, here’s one. Insanity: ‘Destroying the very things that sustain us.’ And if we’re so short-sighted so as to make such preposterous choices, then it’s not all that preposterous to believe that shortly our end will be in sight."
"I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me nowis a beginning or an end."
"I'm still looking for someoneWho said they were here for me,And I thought I was once there for you.But when troubles are nearer than friends,And the road comes to an end,What could I do?I wish I could fly away like you."
"That’s the hope, isn’t it? To see your family in your time of dying."
"My fear of endings too often blocks my hope of beginnings."
"I’m sorry it’s had to be this hard. But if I hadn’t walked this path, who would I be? At the moment I felt at the center of my life, the dream still braided like sweetgrass in my memory. I remembered Duffy’s challenge. Imagine a world worth living in, a world worth fighting for. I closed my eyes and allowed my hopes to soar. I heard the beatings of wings nearby. I opened my eyes. A young man on a nearby rooftop released his pigeons, like dreams, into the dawn."
"She didn’t know how this ended, she just knew that it needed to, one way or another."
"From too much love of livingFrom hope and fear set free,We thank with brief thanksgivingWhatever gods may beThat no life lives for ever;That dead men rise up never;That even the weariest riverWinds somewhere safe to sea.Then star nor sun shall waken,Nor any change of light:Nor sound of waters shaken,Nor any sound or sight:Nor wintry leaves nor vernal,Nor days nor things diurnal;Only the sleep eternalIn an eternal night."
"Why should I fear death?If I am, then death is not.If Death is, then I am not.Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?Long time men lay oppressed with slavish fear.Religious tyranny did domineer.At length the mighty one of GreeceBegan to assent the liberty of man."
"But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?"
"more. To have days cut off and at their end. To never again..........anything."
"Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true."
"I've been trying to fit everything in, trying to get to the end before it's too late, but I see now how badly I've deceived myself. Words do not allow such things. The closer you come to the end, the more there is to say. The end is only imaginary, a destination you invent to keep yourself going, but a point comes when you realize you will never get there. You might have to stop, but that is only because you have run out of time. You stop, but that does not mean you have come to an end."
"Religion starts with desolation and ends with misery."
"The first thing fading is your beautythe least trustworthy is your minddown here on this earthnothing's of any worthin the endin the end"
"The first thing fading is your beautythe least trustworthy is your minddown here on this earthnothing's of any worth—in the end"
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