End
Quotes - When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first
“At
the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m
going and never have been before.”
―
Warsan Shire
“It's
better to burn out than to fade away.”
― Neil
Young
“But
that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you
believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.”
―
M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“For
me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see
it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously
toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.”
―
Michelle Obama, Becoming
“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.”
―
Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
“You
get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end,
everyone leaves.”
―
Rachel Ward, Numbers
“I
keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my
copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo
March)”
―
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“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.”
―
Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally
“End?
No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all
must take.”
―
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
“It
is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love
with someone who doesn't know what they mean to you.”
―
Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign
“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 Greece
Began
to assent the liberty of man.”
―
Epicurus
“At
the end as at the start, and through all the in-betweens, I love you.”
―
Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War
“They'll
say you are bad
or
perhaps you are mad
or
at least you
should
stay undercover.
Your
mind must be bare
if
you would dare
to
think you can love
more
than one lover.”
―
David Rovics
“Bob
says hello," He told the stars.
The
Argo II sailed into the night.”
―
Rick Riordan, The House of Hades
“I
barely know him. I guess that is every relationship. You start with nothing and
maybe end with everything.”
―
Adam Silvera, What If It's Us
“Kindness
and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is
superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper,
stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.”
―
Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“Every
moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.”
―
Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
“Nothing’s
worse than a story without an end.”
―
Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season
“Slowly,
with many lost days, I come back to life.”
―
Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
“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.”
―
Rachel Caine, Last Breath
“But
there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what
you had, but you can lock it up behind you. Start fresh.”
―
Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds
“From
too much love of living
From
hope and fear set free,
We
thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever
gods may be
That
no life lives for ever;
That
dead men rise up never;
That
even the weariest river
Winds
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 eternal
In
an eternal night.”
―
Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Garden of Proserpine
