Ending Quotes (page 168)

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• reading
• play
• good

What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And -- though played out forms can throw up miraculous sports like The Importance of Being Earnest or Decline and Fall-- what is good is always what is new, in both form and content. What is good forgets whatever models it might have had, and is unexpected; we have to catch it on the wing. ((p. 62, Reading & Writing) V. S. Naipaul

• ocean
• end
• beating

Ocean, Ocean I'll beat you in the end. Ken Kesey

• end
• famous
• saying

Ripred sighed. 'I suppose so. You and I seem to end up doing everything. Shall we say four members for each delegation?' 'Why not?' Luxa said. 'Four can be as stupid as ten. No need to crowd the room.' Ripred laughed. 'You know, I think you an I are going to get on famously. Suzanne Collins

• reading
• end
• together

He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after. Kate DiCamillo

• indian
• leaving
• may

No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot, why didn't I do that long ago, why has it taken me so long to understand what it means when the Indians honour the insane, step aside for them? Yes, a lunatic asylum--don't you think I may end up there? Soren Kierkegaard

• end
• wedges
• ways

That's the way it ends. The thin edge of the wedge. Charles Bukowski

• end
• enough
• always

It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet. Sting

• help
• brainly
• helpful

For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me. Bram Stoker

• old man
• old
• understanding

I, an old man, have written this fire report. Among other things, it was important to me, as an exercise for old age, to enlarge my knowledge and spirit so I could accompany young men whose lives I might have lived on their way to death. I have climbed where they climbed, and in my time I have fought fire and inquired into its nature. In addition, I have lived to get a better understanding of myself and those close to me, many of them now dead. Perhaps it is not odd, at the end of this... Norman Maclean

• silence
• end
• silencing

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic, but to end the injustice. Paul Robeson

• nature
• god
• new

Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• tears
• end
• tearing

It all ends in tears anyway. Jack Kerouac

• end
• summer
• boys

If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends. Neil Gaiman

• night
• end
• bad

After a while there were no more tule fogs at dawn and all Charlotte wanted was one night that did not end badly. Joan Didion

• she
• end
• walking

Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely? All this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely? Virginia Woolf