Quotes about End
Objection 2: Further, if it is a matter of argument, the argument is either from authority or from reason. If it is from authority, it seems unbefitting its dignity, for the proof from authority is the weakest form of proof. But if it is from reason, this is unbefitting its end, because, according to Gregory (Hom. 26), "faith has no merit in those things of which human reason brings its own experience." Therefore sacred doctrine is not a matter of argument.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.'" —C. S. LEWIS
— Norman Geisler
After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.
— Virginia Woolf
So that was the end of that marriage.
— Virginia Woolf
She would die like some bird in a frost gripping her perch.
— Virginia Woolf
But if there are no stories, what end can there be, or what beginning?
— Virginia Woolf
We have none of us long to wait for Death. Patience, patience! He'll be here soon enough for us all.
— Charles Dickens
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
— Thomas Merton
The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal. Failure I may still encounter at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road. Never will I know how close it lies unless I turn the corner. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.
— Og Mandino
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.
— Cormac McCarthy
She said: Sheriff how come you to let crime get so out of hand in your county? Sounded like a fair question I reckon. Maybe it was a fair question. Anyway I told her, I said: It starts when you begin to overlook bad manners. Any time you quit hearin Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.
— Cormac McCarthy
And so these parties divided upon that midnight plain, each passing back the way the other had come, pursuing as all travelers must inversions without end upon other men's journeys. X
— Cormac McCarthy