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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.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

Quotes by Pope John XXIII

I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there.

Quotes by Poe Ballantine

Pool swimmers are very slim, and they're stronger. Marathon swimmers have to train an awful lot, and they end up losing a bit of muscle mass. So we need to have a bit more fat, though that's not the case...

Quotes by Poliana Okimoto

If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.

Quotes by Polykarp Kusch

I like to keep my money at the end of the day.

Quotes by Pitbull

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Plato

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Plato

From the end spring new beginnings.

Quotes by Pliny the Elder

The Netherlands is not an immigration country. The annual stream of tens of thousands of newcomers, who largely end up as illegal aliens, must stop.

Quotes by Pim Fortuyn

The annual stream of tens of thousands of newcomers, who largely end up as illegal aliens, must stop. Full is full. We're living on a small piece of land here.

Quotes by Pim Fortuyn

Home is, in the end, not just the place where you sleep, but the place where you stand.

Quotes by Pico Iyer

I just kind of like to feel myself into stuff by writing scenes and seeing what characters end up saying.

Quotes by Phoebe Waller-Bridge

A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.

Quotes by Phyllis Diller

What's the problem with 'never?' It keeps you from trying. It ensures that you will fail. End of story.

Quotes by Phyllis George

Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Quotes by Phillips Brooks

At the end of the day, I'm writing in a genre that isn't highly regarded.

Quotes by Philippa Gregory

And before I'd got to the end of the first paragraph, I'd come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me today whenever I begin a story, and it's this: where am I telling it from?

Quotes by Philip Pullman

I had no idea I'd end up writing four books when I completed 'Mortal Engines.' I didn't even think it would find a publisher.

Quotes by Philip Reeve

Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.

Quotes by Philip Schaff

Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and it's a very strange one.

Quotes by Philip Glenister

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.