"Life is a hurdle and you'll never clear it. Death is the end of the ride and you fear it."
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"As performers grow older, I reckon there are two ways they can go. They can either be up there, playing more deeply from their guts than ever, or they can be phoning it in so crassly that it leaves a lump in your throat as you leave the venue at the end of the show."
"We came to the end, we found nothing. Nothing!!! And we cursed because we were hoping for so much less."
"Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins"
"There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions."
"Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end."
"What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they."
"Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity."
"He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!"
"Energy wasted on negative ends."
"In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire."
"Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages."
"She would grab whatever she could -a look , a whisper , a moan - to salvage from perishing , to perserve. But time is most unforgivving of fires , and she couldn't , in the end , save it all ."
"Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope."
"We have agreed that peace can be achieved with the removal of the occupation and the end of aggression."
"The end of living is the true enjoyment of it."
"Every fictional thing I wrote gave me strength to write another and another. By the end I wasn't remaining true to anything but the story I wanted to tell."
"I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do. And at the end of the day, whether it works or not, I can say I tried my best."
"If it was up to me, I’d choose the hard path with the easy ending, not the easy path with the hard end."
"Every time my dreams threaten to become reality, something always happens and I end up alone."