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“The most terrible things end, at last.”

Ends Lasts Terrible Terrible Things

Book:The Cyclades: Or, Life Among the Insular Greeks

Source: The Cyclades: Or, Life Among the Insular Greeks

“My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.”

People Ends Mother Terrible Hollywood Iniquity Dens

Author:Kitty Carlisle

“When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.”

Thinking Ends Hard Life Is Amount Terrible Endure Unhappy Unhappiness

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means - to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal - would bring terrible retributions.”

“In our culture, we grow up thinking that failure is a terrible thing, that it's a setback, or worse, the end. Often it turns out to be the beginning of something better.”

Thinking Ends Motivational Turns Culture Grows Growing Up Terrible Terrible Things Something Better Setback

Book:I Just Graduated ... Now What?: Honest Answers from Those Who Have Been There

Source: I Just Graduated ... Now What?: Honest Answers from Those Who Have Been There

“One of the things I love about the theater is that no one can tell you to stop. Once you're onstage, it's three hours, and whether you're completely off or you're just horrendous, you've got to find a way to leave an impression. There's not that terrible thing that you get when you're making a movie, where you get in your car at the end of the day knowing that something you're not proud of was immortalized on film, and you can't fix it because they won't reshoot it.”

Way Ends Film Three Hours Knowing Car Proud Terrible Theater Impression The End Of The Day Terrible Things Things I Love

Author:Carey Mulligan

“I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been justifying cruelties and injustices inflicted on millions of his contemporaries by the benefits which he hopes to confer on future generations: generations who, as one terrible moment now reveals to him, were never going to exist. Then he will see the massacres, the faked trials, the deportations, to be all ineffaceably real, an essential part, his part, in the drama that has just ended: while the future Utopia had never been anything but a fantasy.”

Source: The World's Last Night: And Other Essays

“In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or puts an end to them by sinking under their weight. But in hell the torments cannot be overcome by habit, for while they are of terrible intensity they are at the same time of continual variety, each pain, so to speak, taking fire from another and re-endowing that which has enkindled it with a still fiercer flame.”

Long Stills Ends Pain Speak Hell Fire Habit Terrible Sorrow Overcoming Weight Variety This Life Flames Intensity Torment Sinking

Book:The Best of James Joyce

Source: The Best of James Joyce

“All of women's stories in the 19th century had either one of two endings: you either had the good Jane Austen marriage at the end and you were happy; or you had the terrible Henry James savage downfall because of your own hubris as a woman, or you've made some great error leading you down a path to ruin. One is the story of love that's successful and the other is the story usually of reckless love that goes terribly wrong that destroys the woman.”

Made Two Ends Stories Path Successful Century Terrible Errors Ruins Savages Jane Reckless 19th Century Downfall Hubris Austen

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“In Chaos Magic , beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects. To fully realize this is to face a terrible freedom in which nothing is true and everything is permitted, which is to say that everything is possible, there are no certainties , and the consequences can be ghastly.”

Ends Faces Belief Realizing Magic Effects Terrible Creating Consequence Tools Chaos Certainty Ghastly

Book:Liber Kaos

Source: Liber Kaos