"It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
"The meaning of life is that it ends"
- Franz Kafka
"The happiness of mankind, if it ever should come to pass, would still leave men asking: Why? What point to it? To what end?"
- William Barrett
"To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law—a perversion. Inevitably, then..."
- Walter M. Miller Jr.
"The man who pursues moral ends with unmoral means is involved in acontradiction of motives, and nullifies the object at which he aims,since he denies it by his actions."
- Fredrich Von Bernhardi
"Start your journey where the road ends! Glory lies beyond the ends!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
"We should expose whatever ends are harmful and whatever ideas are false, and not confuse the two."
- Steven Pinker
"Even if, by some especially unfortunate fate or by the niggardly provision of stepmotherly nature, [the good will] should be wholly lacking in the power to accomplish its purpose; if with the greatest..."
- Immanuel Kant
"Do not grieve when something good ends, be glad that it happened."
- Jeffrey Fry
"Enzo thought ends were disappointing. He said when you were really immersed in a story, you started to have expectations. And the end was never as great as you imagined it could have been. Even though..."
- Chelsea Sedoti