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“How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which Prometheus brought writing to man from the gods. But then I remind myself that...we should not be too fastidious about where great ideas come from. Ultimately, they all come from a wrinkled organ that at its healthiest has the color and consistency of toothpaste, and in the end only withers and dies.”

Men Should Writing Ideas Ends Dies Literature Color Stores Bars Versions Code Organs Consistency Groceries Great Idea Grocery Stores Toothpaste Prometheus Fastidious Cuneiform

Author:Alice Weaver Flaherty

“It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.”

Ifs Want Should Writing Years Long Book Real Ends Wanted Dies Novel Impossible Goes On Tradition Tragedy Wounds Real Life Scar Conventional Happy Endings Old Wounds

Author:Willa Cather

“I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.”

Way Children Ends Dies Parent Hostility Plausible Parent Child Parent Child Relationship

Author:Ben Marcus

“As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book, wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.”

Want Writing Book Ends Dies Missing Concerned Writing A Book Unfinished Wanting To Die

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Death is not the end of who we are. It is only a brief pause in the endless cycle of our lives. Each of us is a spirit that cannot die.”

Ends Death Spirit Dies Our Lives Endless Who We Are Cycles Pauses

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“We don't know the end from the beginning the way that God does. So when a child dies, sure that is incredibly difficult, and when you are the parent, there is almost nothing anybody can say to you that makes any sense.”

Knows Way Children Doe Ends Dies Parent Difficult

Author:Benjamin Carson

“At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.”

Men World Ends Dies Laughing Goes On Sight Amusement Amused Misanthropic

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“One day, a new ideal will arise, and there will be an end to all wars. I die convinced of this. It will need much hard work, but it will be achieved The important thing, until that happens, is to hold one's banner high and to struggle Without struggle there is no life.”

Needs Important War Ends Hard Happens Dies Peace Struggle Hard Work One Day Ideals Important Things Convinced Arise Banner

Author:Kathe Kollwitz

“So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.”

Ends Eye Dies Natural Our Lives Aging Chapters

Book:The Country of the Pointed Firs

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs

“Death is the end of all life in the individual or the thing; if physical, the crumbling of the body into dust from whence it came. He who lives not uprightly, dies completely in the crumbling of the physical body, but he who lives well, transforms himself from that which is mortal, to immortal.”

Ifs Wells Ends Body Dies Individual Dust Mortals Immortal Physical Body Crumbling

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“When a mother dies, a daughter’s mourning never completely ends.”

Ends Mother Dies Daughter Mourning

Book:Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition

Source: Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition

“We only borrow the breaths we take in life. Every breath we borrow we give back, including our last. In the end, no matter how we lived, we all die feeling owed.”

Giving Ends Matter Feelings Lasts Dies Breaths Including Giving Back

Author:Craig Stone

“Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.”

Ends Dies Failing Poet

Book:The Isle of Blood

Source: The Isle of Blood

“If a man dies of cancer in fear and despair, then cry for his pain and celebrate his life. The other man, who fought like hell and laughed in the end, but also died, may have had an easier time in his final months, but took his leave with no more humanity.”

Ifs Men May Ends Pain Humanity Dies Hell Cry Months Easier Despair Died Finals Cancer Celebrate Laughed Easier Times

Book:Full House

Source: Full House

“A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.”

Men Ends Home Death Dies He Man Sitting Wounds Breasts Pace Doom Pierce

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)

“Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.”

Ends Dies Sorrow Length

Author:Aeschylus

“While we only look at Nature it is fair to say that Autumn is the end of the year; but it is still more true that Autumn is the beginning of the year.... Autumn is the time when in fact the leaves bud. Leaves wither because winter begins; but they also wither because spring is already beginning, because new buds are being made, as tiny as percussion caps out of which the spring will crack.... It is only an optical illusion that my flowers die in autumn; for in reality they are born.”

Years Looks Made Stills Ends Facts Reality Dies Born Flower Spring Illusion Fairs Winter Tiny Autumn Cracks Caps Bud Percussion Optical Illusions

Author:Karel Capek

“Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. But, once realise what the true object is in life that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)

“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”

Thinking Believe Long Ends Philosophy Running Dies Choices I Believe Process Responsibility Our Lives Shapes Long Runs I Have Learned Stopping Unsure

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Let us seek Death, or he not found, supply With our own hands his office on ourselves; Why stand we longer shivering under fears, That show no end but death, and have the power, Of many ways to die the shortest choosing, Destruction with destruction to destroy.”

Way Ends Shows Hands Dies Found Office Destruction

Author:John Milton

“Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.”

Life Wells Ends Dies Wish

Author:Benjamin Whichcote

“There's been rumors of war and wars that have been The meaning of life has been lost in the wind And some people thinkin' that the end is close by 'Stead of learnin' to live they are learnin' to die”

People Has Beens War Ends Dies Lost Wind Meaning Of Life Apocalypse Rumor

Book:The Lyrics: 1961-2012

Source: The Lyrics: 1961-2012

“Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.”

Ends Dies Deserve Misery Jew Pity Oppressed Rotten

Author:John Calvin

“While the nation that has dared to be great, that has had the will and the power to change the destiny of the ages, in the end must die, yet no less surely the nation that has played the part of the weakling must also die; and whereas the nation that has done nothing leaves nothing behind it, the nation that has done a great work really continues, though in changed form, to live forevermore.”

Ends Done Age Form Dies Nations Behinds Destiny Changed Great Work Live Forever Power To Change

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“Some of these guys are so violent that it is hard for witnesses to come forward, and they get involved in repeat criminal activities, so it is unfortunate that they had to die, but it did kind of end the cycle that we were struggling with.”

Kind Ends Hard Guy Dies Struggle Involved Activity Criminals Violent Witness Repeats Cycles Unfortunate Get Involved

Author:Ray Nagin

“My big problem with corporate structure is this bizarre sense of loyalty you're supposed to feel -- towards what is basically a virus. It grows or dies, like any virus. And you use it for your own selfish ends." - source”

Feels Ends Use Problem Bigs Dies Grows Source Structure Selfish Loyalty Corporate Bizarre Viruses Big Problems

Author:Thom Yorke

“Maybe it's ALWAYS the end of the world. Maybe you're alive for a while, and then you realize you're going to die, and that's such an insane thing to comprehend, you look around for answers and the only answer is that the world must die with you.”

World Looks Ends Dies Realizing Answers Alive Insane Apocalypse End Of The World

Author:Jess Walter

“At the end of your life, you're lucky if you die.”

Ifs Ends Death Dies Lucky

Author:Bret McKenzie

“The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis, to die. Or to put it another way, the rage to attain a freedom and happiness one's psyche cannot accept creates enormous anxiety and ends in self-punishing despair.”

Way Ends Self Dies Accepting Despair Anxiety Rage Surrender Enormous Ecstasy Submit Another Way Will Power Freedom And Happiness

Author:Ellen Willis

“We all die in the end, but there's no reason to die in the middle.”

Ends Reason Dies Middle No Reason

Author:David Mamet

“Not to write, for many of us, is to die. We must take ares each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fight we must, if only a gentle bout. The smallest effort to win means, at the end of each day, a sort of victory.”

Ifs Writing Mean Ends Dies Fighting Winning Effort Knowing Victory Battle Gentle Each Day Smallest

Author:Ray Bradbury

“There is no Christian Gospel if history simply unwinds into a meaningless puddle, if the cosmos simply escapes into a cataclysmic black hole, or if the universe finally dies of exhausted energy. Without belief in a biblical eschatology, there is no Christian hope. Without a sense of perfect moral judgment in the end, the human heart is homeless.”

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