Top 100 Quotes About Life Ends

#1. Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.

Benjamin Whichcote

#2. If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it.

Dan Wells

#3. Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.

Fernando Pessoa

#4. It's weird: making a movie is like life compacted into three months. You have these very intense relationships with people, and you talk to them every day - your editor, the casting people, music people, your actors - then it ends. It's like a circus life.

Dito Montiel

#5. Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,
it is exceedingly short.

Henry Ward Beecher

#6. A third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes
for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.

R.A. Salvatore

#7. Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.

Floyd Skloot

#8. Doubt gets a bad rap. Doubting doesn't mean you've stopped believing, but that you've started thinking. Sheep doubt nothing. Chances are you'll get further in life by questioning things than by living like something that ends up as dinner and a sweater.

Amy Alkon

#9. Life's not perfect. Some loose ends may never get trimmed up and tidied.

Hoda Kotb

#10. My studio work is a central part of my life and I'd be at loose ends without it. When I'm not in my studio, I don't stop thinking about painting.

Stephen Beal

#11. And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning.

Hunter S. Thompson

#12. Popularity ends on yearbook day-Respect stays forever.

John Bytheway

#13. I often feel that my life, much like my shows, will end on a cliffhanger.

Mike Judge

#14. We have the technology to build a global paradise on earth, and at the same time, we have the power to end life as we know it. I am a futurist. I cannot predict the actual future - only what it can be if we manage the earth and its resources intelligently.

Jacque Fresco

#15. You, Emily. You're worth fighting for. I fought all my life, but never for anything worthwhile. Now... Now I'm fighting for my heart. Bullshit ends here and now.

Nashoda Rose

#16. The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#17. The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

Barney Frank

#18. Meditation is a glorious link to connect and harmonize the two ends of life - material and spiritual.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#19. Halloween, the one night when we embrace the darkness from which all of America is descended. October is the gateway to the wonderful, mystical finale of the American year. A place where life ends and the celebration of life briefly begins.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#20. So how exactly was I supposed to wrap my head around the whole thing? I wasn't entirely sure I could trust this guy. I mean, this was it? Really? My life ends and some creep in a grungy leather jacket takes me away? No, I couldn't accept that. -Jen

Nessie Strange

#21. Life is only precious because it ends, kid.

Rick Riordan

#22. Yes, this world is truly terrible, which is why the pure and the holy come bravely forward: They have decided to eradicate the sins of the world. They want to standardize people, keep them in order, keep them in place under their own rear ends. They are the reason I have had to die a hundred times.

Zhang Xianliang

#23. If all life moves inevitably towards its end, then we must, during our own, colour it with our colours of love and hope.

Marc Chagall

#24. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government ...

Thomas Jefferson

#25. At both ends of life man needed nourishment: a breast - a shrine. Something to lay himself beside when no one wanted him further, and shoot a bullet into his head.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#26. There is nothing more powerful than this moment your living, now, more powerful than your convictions and truths, spend time with what your heart desires and souls screams for. Life ends a day before we know it, it's so important to chase everything that matters to you.

Nikki Rowe

#27. I am planning my one woman show. It will be a showcase of my life. It starts at the beginning and ends where I am today. It will have every single inch of my life - as much as you can get into an hour. I will be touring everywhere.

Britt Ekland

#28. All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#29. At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality.

James McGreevey

#30. All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#31. An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

Maria Callas

#32. Nothing ever really ends. That's the horrible part of being in the short-story business - you have to be a real expert on ends. Nothing in real life ends. 'Millicent at last understands.' Nobody ever understands.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#33. I shudder to think of an eternity spend without books. I have hopes that every book that was ever lost is somewhere waiting for me when my life here finally ends.

Mel Odom

#34. You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here ... Death ends life, not a relationship.

Mitch Albom

#35. But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared with the length of our life, that these changes are not observed, and before their course can be recorded from beginning to end whole nations perish and are destroyed.

Aristotle.

#36. Caring is going to the ends of the world for a stranger.

Bernard Levine

#37. I just mean that everything eventually ends. The two suns are always rising somewhere. That's part of life. Something ends and then something else will begin.

Sue Monk Kidd

#38. No one will make a good end to the life into which he is born unless he is born again before he ends it.

Augustine Of Hippo

#39. There are always loose ends in real life.

Robert Galbraith

#40. Life's a journey that goes round and round and the end is closest to the beginning.

Edward James Olmos

#41. Things end. Everything ends. But for a few days in a city full of hunger, and avarice, and alienation - in this fucked-up mess of a life spent wandering in the dark without a hand to hold on to - I was not alone. And neither were you.

Julio Alexi Genao

#42. Love is the supreme good; it is the overflowing life, the giving of ourselves to noble ends and causes.

Wilferd Peterson

#43. Mike was right: the pattern of life isn't a straight line; it crosses and recrosses, drawing in and tying together other lives, as I do when I gather in the ends of my thread to make a knot.

Benedict Freedman

#44. Sometimes life begins like a bad dream and ends up like a kid's fairytale. The kind our
grandmothers used to tell us about sitting next to a fireplace, with their white braids shining under
the fire's light. They knew that even in an era like ours, there is nothing wrong with dreaming..

Georgia Kakalopoulou

#45. Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.

Amish Tripathi

#46. Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.

Richard Leakey

#47. If we had the power over the ends of the earth, it would not give us that fulfillment of existence which a quiet devoted relationship to nearby life can give us.

Martin Buber

#48. Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance.

T.D. Jakes

#49. Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

Joan Didion

#50. What is the point of living this beautiful life if you do not have a mission that ends up making the world a better place to live.

Manoj Arora

#51. We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.

Kami Garcia

#52. So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Victor Hugo

#53. People will seek the ends of the galaxy to avoid that which they need most.

Criss Jami

#54. The purpose of forgiveness is not to make sure that someone ends up changing into what you expect them to be, as this is dominance. The purpose is actually to make your own life better, more worthy and less stressful. Forgiveness reduces the hold that the wrongdoer has over you and empowers you.

Stephen Richards

#55. We can trace the elements. They were forged in the centers of high-mass stars that went unstable at the ends of their lives, they exploded, scattered their enriched contents across the galaxy, sprinkled into gas clouds that then collapsed and formed stars and planets and life.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#56. Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

Fulton J. Sheen

#57. It is vital to comprehend that humans exist in a state of perpetual transformation. Life ends when stasis sets in.

Pete Conrad

#58. It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end.

Esther Meynell

#59. For there are many twists and turns on any given path. How or where it ends is either destination or mystery.

C.C. Wyatt

#60. Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor's mind toward some final resolution, some clear meaning, which it perhaps never finds.

Robert Anderson

#61. Everything from a lifetime's worth of collecting things. You know as we go through life, and something stays and ends up on your shelf and lives there until you die? Just those little things.

PJ Harvey

#62. Your life is a book;
it begins the day you are born,
the chapters pile up as you grow,
and the book ends as you die.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#63. There's nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, 'I didn't do it right'.

Lily Tomlin

#64. In life, as in knitting, don't leave loose ends. Take the time to thank the people who matter in your life.

Reba Linker

#65. I think it's important to be able to say that you did live a normal life and struggled to make ends meet. It all has to do with work ethic and how I apply myself to my awesome job now. I've always been used to working because I've been working since I was four.

Naya Rivera

#66. The cyclist hit me, and it's vile after my life ends in the afterlife. Lots of incense, resin, apes and giraffe-tails--all acquired tastes. I don't like that kind of thing.

Diane Williams

#67. Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.

Lee Child

#68. Alcohol, for those addicted to it, is a kind of infatuation. It ends up displacing other relationships, becoming inseparable from your sense of who you are until a better, longer life no longer seems possible.

Louis Theroux

#69. When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.

Herbie Hancock

#70. There's no good way to die, you know? No way I've seen, anyway. It all ends with tubes and bedpans and IVs and I just
smoking gets me out of there. Gets me outside, gets me away from all the
"
"Sick people?" I say, and she shakes her head.
"Away from my life.

Elizabeth Scott

#71. Before the beginning ends, start a new chapter.

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#72. In the end, as you get older and older, your life is your life, and you are alone with it.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

#73. Life after 35 should be lit by the flames of passion. Extinguish the fire that burns the candle of your life at both ends.

Thorbjorg Hafsteinsdottir

#74. Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity. But the Life of the Founder of Christianity, having begun with the Cross, ends with the empty tomb and victory.

Fulton J. Sheen

#75. The man of method may channel all his spiritual currents towards productive ends, be relentless in his suppression of predilection and propensity, but when accident upsets the flow of his life, he finds himself drowning in a sea of tedium, hatred, and rage.

Juan Filloy

#76. The idea that rhythm is intrinsically human - not just primitive - that we all have hearts that beat at a steady rate and don't stop ... reminds me of life itself. In that sense my music is like certain popular music where the rhythm drives from beginning to end.

Michael Torke

#77. Meaning beginns in the words, in the action, continues in your head and ends nowhere. There is no end to meaning. Meaning which is resolved, parcelled, labelled and ready for export is dead, impartient - and meaningless.

Pfister

#78. Walking away ends a battle in the heart of one,
and starts a war in the soul of another.

Jenim Dibie

#79. Life's but a means unto an end, that end,
Beginning, mean, and end to all things
God.

Philip James Bailey

#80. In the end, what affects your life most deeply are things too simple to talk about.

Nell Blaine

#81. Not much in the world ends up being the same as it started out,
unless of course it had a very short life cycle.

Lorii Myers

#82. Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.

Alexander Volkov

#83. The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.

William Penn

#84. Life ends. But love? Love lives forever.

Jennifer Donnelly

#85. Life begins where fear ends.

Osho

#86. The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death.

Wilfred Bion

#87. Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end.

Annie Dillard

#88. If you can't make ends meet, meet them in the middle instead

Benny Bellamacina

#89. Life begins with an inhale and ends with an exhale. ln between that inhale and that exhale is our life.

Sharon Gannon

#90. Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#91. No matter how well prepared you are in life, you're gonna fall down a hole, and if you can fix the frayed ends of things, then you're better off.

Fiona Apple

#92. We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.

Joseph Addison

#93. Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends ... and a passion for extremism is a veiled longing for death.

Milan Kundera

#94. I don't believe the inner work ever really ends, and sometimes I'd like to take a vacation.

Debra Moffitt

#95. Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth.

Gerry Mulligan

#96. Having children changes everything; it changes your entire perspective about life since from the moment they arrive your new world begins and ends with them, your concern for their welfare is paramount over everything else and your life is scheduled around their needs.

Tess Daly

#97. For wisest ends this universal Power Gave appetites, from whose quick impulse life Subsists, by which we only live, all life Insipid else, unactive, unenjoy'd. Hence to this peopled earth, which, that extinct, That flame for propagation, soon would roll A lifeless mass, and vainly cumber heaven.

John Armstrong

#98. LEASE
Life Ends And Session Expires
Kamil Ali - Poem, The Balance' - Profound Vers-A-Tales

Kamil Ali

#99. The sexuality doesn't end. It really doesn't. You're sexual your whole life, if you're a sexual person.

Erica Jong

#100. I don't see the direct correlation between my personal life and the novel I'm writing until I'm at the end of the novel or very close to it.

Laurie Foos

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