Coming To An End Quotes by James Patterson, Anne Lamott, Bobby Fischer, Eudora Welty, Anne Roiphe, Tobias Wolff and many others.

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Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever.
Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.
People always think their world is coming to an end if they’re exposed, and of course it isn’t coming to an end; it goes right on exactly the way it always was.
Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming to an end. Before we get it we live in a continuous present, and imagine the future as more of that present. Happiness is endless happiness, innocent of its own sure passing. Pain is endless pain.
I think the era of the diva actress is coming to an end.
What about desserts?” I asked. “If the world comes to an end, I’m going to want cookies.” “We’re all going to want cookies if the world comes to an end,” Mrs. Nesbitt agreed. “And chips and pretzels. If the world is coming to an end, why should I care about my blood pressure?” “Okay, we’ll die fat,” Mom said.
Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it’s an endless stalemate.
I only work in relation to what the work is about. Yes, of course, if the world’s coming to an end I would basically try to get out of the way when the sky falls.
My life, between 22 yards for 24 years… It’s hard to imagine that this is coming to an end.
But big people’s illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was coming to an end.
But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off.
Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom – picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode – may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair.
Great, the worlds coming to an end and we’re fixing it with Band-Aids
Human life is difficult. But as this life is coming to an end, I consider myself lucky to have lived it.
The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just as democracy is much more cumbersome than dictatorship. But there will be few companies that can afford to ignore either of them.