Endings Quotes

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
Aesop

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel Kant

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Orson Welles

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
Henry A. Kissinger

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
Tecumseh

No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to.
Robert Smith

Every choice you make has an end result.

I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die.
George Clooney

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.
Iggy Pop

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
Jeremy Bentham

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
Larry Bird

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
Bono

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.
Andrew Johnson

The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.
Harry Houdini

Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this.
Peter Sellers

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.
Henry Van Dyke

Which death is preferably to every other? "The unexpected".
Julius Caesar

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
Jackie Robinson

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.
Joseph Stalin

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.
John Travolta

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. Tolkien

The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days.
Jack Johnson

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

A tomb now him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
Alexander the Great

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.
Charles M. Schulz

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Che Guevara

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
Freddie Mercury

We reckon that in about 20 years there'll be none left.
Jane Goodall

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notions of time; effaces all memory of beginning, all fear of an end.
Madame de Stael

We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?
Haile Selassie

And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.
Anne Boleyn

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.
Francis Schaeffer

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
Walter Benjamin