Coming To An End Quotes (page 5)

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• life
• disappointment
• end

Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever. Anne Lamott

• end
• willful
• detective stories

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks. Dorothy L. Sayers

• death
• book
• reading

We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain. Roberto Bolano

• ambition
• end
• ending

Ambition never comes to an end. Kenneth Kaunda

• time
• end
• action

Innumerable actions are going on through us all the time. If we started counting them, we should never come to an end. Vinoba Bhave

• powerful
• power
• end

The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will. Robert Kagan

• end
• everything
• ended

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end. Quintilian

• life
• fear
• end

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall ever have a beginning. John Henry Newman

• achievement
• end
• achievements

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river. Jiddu Krishnamurti

• society
• historical
• world

It is true that historic Christianity is in conflict at many points with the collectivism of the present day; it does emphasize, against the claims of society, the worth of the individual soul. It provides for the individual a refuge from all the fluctuating currents of human opinion, a secret place of meditation where a man can come alone into the presence of God. It does give a man courage to stand, if need be, against the world; it resolutely refuses to make of the individual a mere means... John Gresham Machen

• hope
• pool
• death

I have been reading Plotinus all evening. He has the power to sooth me; and I find his sadness curiously comforting. Even when he writes: “Life here with the things of earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failure of the wing.” The wing has indeed failed. One sinks. Defeat is certain. Even as I write these lines, the lamp wick sputters to an end, and the pool of light in which I sit contracts. Soon the room will be dark. One has always feared that death would be like this. But what else is... Gore Vidal

• lifetime
• good
• words

He[Tom] read from the Almenak."'The song that the Vigil Snake sings is in fact one immensely long word; the longest in the ancient language of the species. It is so long that an individual can sing it for a lifetime and never come to the end of it.'"That sounds like a Kleppism to me," Geneva said. "How would they ever learn it?"Good question," said Tom. "Maybe they're born with it, like a migration instinct?"'"Born with a song,"said Geneva. Tom smiled. "Yes. Don't you like that idea?"Liking... Clive Barker

• end
• city
• to live

Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city. Arthur Keith

• best
• end
• farther

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things... Agatha Christie

• people
• war
• end

The war which is coming. Is not the first one. There were. Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end. There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people. Starved. Among the conquerors. The common people starved too. Bertolt Brecht