Quotes about End
And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
- Tertullian
The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.
- St. Jerome
The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
- Victor Hugo
I tell you, monsieur, it's the end of the world. The students' behaviour has never been so outrageous. It's all these damnable modern inventions that are the ruin of everything.
- Victor Hugo
When one is at the end of one's life, to die means to go away; when one is at the beginning of it, to go away means to die.
- Victor Hugo
Love is a battle she said smiling, And I plan on going fighting 'til the end. Love is a battle? well, I don't feel at all like fighting, and he left.
- Milan Kundera
Those who are fascinated by the idea of progress do not suspect that everything moving forward is at the same time bringing the end nearer and that joyous watchwords like forward and farther are the lascivious voice of death urging us to hasten to it. (If fascination with the word forward has become universal, isn't it mainly because death is already speaking to us from nearby?)
- Milan Kundera
And in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable
- Milan Kundera
The darkness was pure, perfect, thoughtless, visionless; that darkness was without end, without borders; that darkness was the infinite we each carry within us.
- Milan Kundera
We love and live in power; it is the spirit's end. Mind must subdue; to conquer is its life.
- Philip James Bailey
Love is easily killed.
- Oscar Wilde
That our sanctification did not depend upon changing our works, but in doing that for GOD's sake, which we commonly do for our own. That it was lamentable to see how many people mistook the means for the end, addicting themselves to certain works, which they performed very imperfectly, by reason of their human or selfish regards.
- Brother Lawrence