This Is The Way The World Ends Quotes

#1. This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
Not with a band but a whimper.

T. S. Eliot

#2. When we say "the world has ended," it's usually a lie, because the planet is just fine. But this is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. For the last time.

N.K. Jemisin

#3. This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

T. S. Eliot

#4. Then Morgoth stretching out his long arm towards Dor-lomin cursed Hurin and Morwen and their offspring, saying: 'Behold! The shadow of my thought shall lie upon them wherever they go, and my hate shall pursue them to the ends of the world.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#5. I'm afraid," I say, and that is partly the truth. I am afraid of what I am going to have to do to this person who claims she is my sister, but who I want to take into my arms and fuck until the world ends.

Kameron Hurley

#6. In the end, the Tribune lost touch with the world it was supposed to reach; it mattered passionately, but almost exclusively, to those who worked for it.

Paul Gray

#7. Baby, for you, I'd go to the ends of the world--slay a dragon, climb the Himalayas, and even dance. I'd do anything for you."
~Zane

M.L. Rodriguez

#8. An Atlas, whose back is bowed and whose hands are busy holding up the world, has no arms to lift to deal with his own defense. Increase his burdens and you will crush him ... This is our present posture ... This suggestions I make ... would ... conserve American lives for American ends.

Murray Rothbard

#9. In this business, you can be at the top of the world and at the bottom of the barrel, and you're grape juice. I've been at both ends. It can make you become what you really are.

Kim Basinger

#10. Everybody does the same mistake: refusing the means, but wanting the ends. You want peace and harmony in the world, but refuse to have them in yourself.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#11. This world is larger than your heart
still larger than your pain
but know this:
everything ends
so let what remains of us all
be love.

Julio Alexi Genao

#12. The world has an ending and a beginning. It begins with you and it ends with you. The end of the world occurs when you make a major transition in attention.

Frederick Lenz

#13. If the human being is a proud and honorable creature, he shouldn't forget to act that way, even if he falls, even if the whole world is against him, even if he ends as a slave.

Shams Tabrizi

#14. Connect with all the passions people have -for themselves, their families, their communities and wider world - and they will follow you to the ends of the earth, buy your products and services with pride, and may even be willing to work for you for next to nothing.

Patrick Dixon

#15. This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.

Martin Firrell

#16. What a thing friendship is - World without end.

Robert Browning

#17. 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

#18. Sometimes go around with guys who are scuffling
for awhile. But usually they end up marrying some cat with a factory. This is the way world ends, not with a whim but a banker.

Marian McPartland