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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.

When I'm 70 or 80, I'm still going to be doing good climbs. It's going to be fun to the bitter end.

Quotes by Alex Lowe

If there's a shot on, I like to take the opportunity as well, and I like passing the ball - which is one of the reasons I came to Arsenal. But I'm a player that likes to come up with...

Quotes by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

No athlete ever ends his or her career the way you want to. We all want to play forever. But it doesn't work that way. Accepting the end gracefully is part of being a professional athlete.

Quotes by Alex Rodriguez

I didn't want to come to the end of my career and think, 'What next?'

Quotes by Alex Scott

It's far different aging as a quarterback than aging as a tight end.

Quotes by Alex Smith

When I got drafted, I was a spread-option quarterback. It was, 'OK, you've got to get under center, throw to the fullback, throw to the tight end. You've got to learn to be a pro quarterback.' And there was a...

Quotes by Alex Smith

You want the players in the locker room to know you as that kid that fights ’til the end, has that never-say-die attitude.

Quotes by Alex de Minaur

At the end of the day, it is a very long year. The tennis season is pretty much ten months of the year.

Quotes by Alex de Minaur

I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.

Quotes by Alex Ebert

The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.

Quotes by Alex Grey

Gravity Falls' normally follows very particular rules: we start out in reality close to the world as we know it, usually one magical element presents itself, and then it's essentially vanished or hidden back to where it came from by...

Quotes by Alex Hirsch

I always designed 'Gravity Falls' to be a finite series about one epic summer-a series with a beginning, middle, and end.

Quotes by Alex Hirsch

Shooting the webisodes was hilarious. It was at the very, very end of 'Battlestar' as we know it.

Quotes by Alessandro Juliani

I always find power in struggles. You end up a lot happier that way.

Quotes by Alessia Cara

At the end of 2000, most investors were optimistic that a return to quick gains could not be far off.

Quotes by Alex Berenson

I couldn't care less what my numbers say at the end of the year. I just want to win games for the Astros.

Quotes by Alex Bregman

I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.

Quotes by Alec Baldwin

The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.

Quotes by Alejandro Jodorowsky

I've seen 'Hamlet' many times, and Hamlet, he was just a hideous neurotic; he never changes. He doubts - all the way to the end, all the way until when he dies, he doubts.

Quotes by Alejandro Jodorowsky

I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical...

Quotes by Alejo Carpentier

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.