Quotes of: In-the-end Keyword

Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly

Running Hot

If you knew how the journey was going to end, you could afford to be patient along the path.

Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.

The Return of the King

Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.

Rabbit Is Rich

Everything with a beginning has an ending. Any magic that can be done, can be undone. Anything you can make, can be unmade.

Rise of the Evening Star

Men like to create unnecessary organizations and give them impressive or mysterious names; this usually ends in increased confusion, and should therefore be ignored.

A River in the Sky

So we found the end of our journey. So we stood, alive in the river of light, Among the creatures of light, creatures of light.

River

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

When you look for beauty, you usually end up finding it. From Central Park Song (A Screenplay)

Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?

The Secret Life of Bees

People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.

The Secret Life of Bees

I grabbed at my chest, instinctively, and he grabbed at his. We were both trying to stop the pain, which was the result of his thoughts of ending his pursuit of me.

Sacrifice

Then, the door opens and there he is; silhouetted in the hall light. Long hair, long legs, and a heartbeat in tune with my own.

September Ends

What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book?

The Sense of an Ending

When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.

Spindle's End

...I need to return briefly to a few incidents that have grown into anecdotes, to some approximate memories which time has deformed into certainty.

The Sense of an Ending

You may say, But wasn't this the Sixties? Yes, but only for some people, only in certain parts of the country.

The Sense of an Ending

Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure.

Small Gods

Turn around? No. Keep going, it's the only way to make sure I don't end up going back and forth.

Shattered

I begin by imagining The impossible And end by accomplishing The impossible.

Sri Chinmoy's Heart Garden: A Book of Aphorisms for Joy and Inspiration