End - Quotes and Proverbs

A story without an end. This page is a collection of proverbs and quotes about ending and the end.

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A cigarette is a pipe with a fire at one end and a fool at the other.

(unknown author)

A good beginning makes a good end.

A man has a choice to begin love, but not to end it.

All good things come to an end.

Good experiences will end some time.

All's well that ends well.

Problems on the way don’t matter as long as the outcome is good.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

Lewis Carroll
Source: Alice in Wonderland
Quoted: The King

Better a mistake at the beginning than at the end.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Victor Hugo

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

Honoré de Balzac

I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.

Stephen Hawking

I thought up an ending for my book. "And he lives happily ever after, till the end of his days."

J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Lord of the Rings
Quoted: Bilbo
Quote from the movie

I'm the last leaf on the tree

Tom Waits
Source: Lyrics: Last leaf

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Laozi

Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.

Dejan Stojanovic

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

John F. Kennedy

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Winston Churchill

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.

J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit

The beauty of things must be... that they end.

Jack Kerouac

The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.

Stephen Hawking

The end justifies the means.

Wrong or unfair methods may be used if the result of the action is good.

The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.

Anthony Trollope

The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.

George Orwell

The word or symbol infinity represents something that is seemingly ongoing, never ending, beyond calculation.

Stephen J. Willis

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Richard Bach

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