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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.

Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.

Quotes by Italo Calvino

'Sairat' is such a consuming movie, so I was stuck into its story. It has such a poignant end that I was quite moved by it.

Quotes by Ishaan Khatter

When you're younger, being a redhead is... Well, my two brothers teased me no end.

Quotes by Isla Fisher

If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.

Quotes by Irwin Corey

I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum - the play in the middle - while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment.

Quotes by Irvine Welsh

So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.

Quotes by Irene Dunne

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

Quotes by Iris Murdoch

Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own...

Quotes by Ingrid Newkirk

What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.

Quotes by Imre Kertesz

I just write characters, and somehow they happen to be a boy and a girl. When the story is put together, and their characters interwoven, they do end up together somehow.

Quotes by Imtiaz Ali

You can run into people, and they can be someone you thought you were never going to hear from again or never gonna talk to again, and they end up becoming dear friends.

Quotes by India Eisley

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Quotes by Immanuel Kant

I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.

Quotes by Illeana Douglas

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

Quotes by Igor Stravinsky

I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now.

Quotes by Idris Elba

My name is usually the one on the end of people's lips.

Quotes by Ian Wright

As a professional singer, I want to be remembered as a singer with her own distinctive color, both by the public and the people in the industry, during and at the end of my career.

Quotes by Hyuna

I do actually have a connection with James Herriot because we went to school in the same area. I went to Hillhead Primary School in the West End of Glasgow and he went to Hillhead Secondary.

Quotes by Iain De Caestecker

The solution to putting an end to bullying is to stop it at the source but also to find out what is causing the person to behave the way that they do.

Quotes by Hunter King

I cry at the end of every book.

Quotes by Hunter Parrish

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.