Believe me, Doctor, if your life ends in suddenness you will be glad it did, and if it does not you will wish it had. You will want suddenness, Doctor.
Light precedes every transition. Whether at the end of a tunnel, through a crack in the door or the flash of an idea, it is always there, heralding a new beginning.
Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.
Relationships: If you put up with it, you’re going to end up with it. Set the standard you want and don’t settle for less.
I see the beginning, I see the end. And in the middle I just hope I don't fall on my ass to much
You broke my heart. I fell for you and you broke my heart. Period, done, end of story.
I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.
When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.
I'd be glad of a retaliation that wouldn't recoil on myself; but treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends: they wound those who resort to them, worse than their enemies.
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
If the afterlife really is a big war,” Kaladin said, “then I hope I end up in Damnation. At least there I might be able to get a wink or two of sleep.
I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.
...if you plan everything out completely from beginning to end, you destroy your chance for adventure.
But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.
and it contained within it the prospect of living and the hope of dying, of endings and beginnings, of love and loss and peace and rage, all wrapped up in two whispered syllables.
In what he suffered, as in all true suffering and in true joy, there was the quality of eternity. He could not believe it would ever end.
...those who break the law should be loved more and not less for their sin, for if we do not forgive then is sin added to sin and the end is death.
I have no brothers or sisters, so I get all my sibling love. But since I can't take what's already mine, I end up giving it all to my cat.
I was so depressed I thought about committing TV. I mean suicide. In the end I decided to binge on @Netflix and it really made me feel better.
Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, "and then everything burst into flames.
The true tragedy in most people’s lives is that they are far better than they imagine themselves to be and, as a result, end up being much less than they might be.
