Endings Quotes (page 69)

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• promise
• new
• live future

If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if uncertain whether to advance or to retreat. Perhaps it is its perpetual ambivalence that is its secret charm. Somewhere between Preservation Hall and the Superdome, between voodoo and cybernetics, New Orleans listens eagerly to the seductive promises of the future but keeps at least one foot firmly... Tom Robbins

• friendship
• real
• end

Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended T. S. Eliot

• fall
• writing
• thoughts

I had already seen the end of fall come through boyhood, youth and young manhood, and in one place you could write about it better than in another. That was called transplanting yourself, I thought, and it could be as necessary with people as with other sorts of growing things. Ernest Hemingway

• art
• end
• contagion

Where does contagion end and art begin? Neil Gaiman

• friday
• pretty
• end

Friday night was the night most people thought they were supposed to have fun. Trouble was most people didn't know what fun was or how to have it, so things usually ended up pretty ugly. Kinky Friedman

• end
• willed
• them

There's a divinity that shapes our ends,Rough-hew them how we will. William Shakespeare

• lost
• good
• evil

In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever. Will Durant

• friend
• manly
• play

If it chance your eye offends you, Pluck it out lad, and be sound:'Twill hurt, but here are salves to friend you, And many a balsam grows on ground. And if your hand or foot offend you, Cut it off, lad, and be whole; But play the man, stand up and end you, When your sickness is your soul. A. E. Housman

• animal
• men
• end

I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being, but left the end of our story untold. That mystery is troubling to us. How could it be otherwise? Without the final part, we think, how are we to make sense of all that went before: which is to say, our lives? So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand... Clive Barker

• journey
• perfect
• end

Excellence/Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends. Brian Tracy

• today
• end
• tomorrow

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow. Find us farther than today. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• life
• missing
• letting go

In the end, The treasure of life is missed by those who hold on and gained by those who let go. Lao Tzu

• work
• end
• wellness

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning. Vaclav Havel

• end
• lively
• the who

All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished. Anais Nin

• life
• real
• world

When it's over, I want to say: all my life. I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it is over, I don't want to wonderif I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don't want to end up simply having visited this world. Mary Oliver