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End Quotes

How things end - in war, in careers, in conscience.

This collection leans heavily historical, comparing a lost war to a chess endgame and recalling a family home destroyed during World War II. For quotes specifically about final outcomes and results, see End Result quotes.

The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up...

Quotes by Helen Fielding

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

Quotes by Heinrich Heine

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

Quotes by Heinrich Heine

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

Quotes by Heinrich Heine

End of the sixties, Keith Blazey interested me to work on GdAlO3, an antiferromagnet on which he had done optic experiments. This started a fruitful cooperation on magnetic phase diagrams, which eventually brought me into the field of critical phenomena.

Quotes by Heinrich Rohrer

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.

Quotes by Helen Clark

The Prime Minister is head of team but its not a one woman act. I've been called all those things. Intellectual, sharp-tongued, all true. But what New Zealander is like is to know that someone is in charge and in...

Quotes by Helen Clark

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

Quotes by Helen Dunmore

Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so that it makes sense. I don't think out the plot ahead of time.

Quotes by Heidi Julavits

A logic proof is: you get a starting point and an ending point, and you have to get there through all these different steps and tautologies. I approach novel writing that way. When I get to the end I have...

Quotes by Heidi Julavits

At the end of the day, it's just a tennis match. It's not the end of the world.

Quotes by Heather Watson

In the end, we are part of this region, and we are affected by its developments. What we may do or not do in the future depends on the nature of what happens here in the region.

Quotes by Hassan Nasrallah

I'm halfway through Patti Smith's memoir 'Just Kids,' which is heart-stoppingly vivid. It drips with beauty and hope and devastating candour. I don't want it to end.

Quotes by Hattie Morahan

It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.

Quotes by Hayao Miyazaki

Being on a weekly series, you see these people so much, and you have these genuine interactions with them where if you're away doing a film, it's a little different because there's - these definite end dates to everything.

Quotes by Hayes MacArthur

Certainly as an actor, half of your work is not going to end up on the screen anyway, because in the editorial process, they need to cut to the other actor in the scene. Very often, your best work ends...

Quotes by Hart Bochner

'Spinal Tap' began as a mock rock band that we four - Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and myself - developed for an appearance on a TV pilot at the end of the 1970s. On our own initiative, we...

Quotes by Harry Shearer

That's life's big joke: we all end up looking like Mr. Burns.

Quotes by Harry Shearer

I know what my talents are, and at the end of the day I'm an actor who can dance.

Quotes by Harry Shum, Jr.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

Quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this collection say about responsibility and consciousness?
One quote reflects on the duty felt by those "involved in the receiving end of the oppression," tying awareness to responsibility. For more thought-provoking lines, see our Ending collection.
Is there a quote comparing war to a game of chess?
Yes - one quote describes how, for Germany, "the war was like an end game in chess in which she possessed one castle less than her adversary." Browse more in our End Result section.
Does the collection include personal wartime memories?
One quote recalls losing a home in 1943 and moving to "a cottage I owned before the war in the Bavarian Alps," describing crowded conditions there by war's end.
Is there a lighter quote about being spared hardship?
Yes - one quote notes, somewhat wryly, "I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick." For more on outcomes and consequences, see our End Product page.
Are these quotes mostly about endings in a literal sense?
They use "end" in several ways - from the ending of a conflict to being on the receiving end of something difficult. Explore more in our End Of The World collection.

One entry shifts to social conscience, describing a felt duty toward those on whom oppression falls hardest. Readers interested in closure themes can also browse Ending quotes or End Of The World quotes for a more dramatic angle.