And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and savaged everywhere he could. But for the boy who had somehow turned into that man, the boy whose gentle hand had comforted her childhood hurts, the boy whose frightened voice had cried out to her at the end of his life, as if he wondered why he had gotten lost inside himself, as if he realized that it was too, too late to get out again.
Orson Scott CardTags: growing-up lost death greed grief cruelty regret lost-innocence the-end saddest-thing too-late the-princess-and-the-bear
That’s the thing about the collapse of civilization, Blake. It never happens according to plan – there’s no slavering horde of zombies. No actinic flash of thermonuclear war. No Earth-shuddering asteroid. The end comes in unforeseen ways; the stock market collapses, and then the banks, and then there is no food in the supermarkets, or the communications system goes down completely and inevitably, and previously amiable co-workers find themselves wrestling over the last remaining cookie that someone brought in before all the madness began.
Mark A. RaynerTags: war planning plans civilization communication madness apocalypse chaos end armageddon zombie the-end zombies cookies collapse plan end-of-the-world wrestling nuclear flash cookie communications end-times asteroid food-shortage food-storage according-to-plan bank-failure blake-given communication-system communication-systems food-rationing food-shortages not-with-a-bang stock-market-collapse thermo-nuclear thermonuclear with-a-whimper world-ending world-ends wrestle
One of the best times for figuring out who you are
Mandy HaleTags: love relationships moving-on dating self-improvement letting-go breaking-up finding-yourself new-beginnings the-end positive-thinking fresh-starts breakups loving-yourself the-single-woman not-settling
Even seasonal situations can bring with them lessons that last a lifetime. If the love doesn’t last, it prepares you for the one that will.
Mandy HaleTags: friends love purpose blessings moving-on dating life-lessons destiny friendships lessons preparation letting-go new-beginnings the-end positive-thinking transitions seasons-of-life everything-happens-for-a-reason the-single-woman becoming-who-you-re-meant-to-be seasonal-relationships trusting-your-journey
Realize that if a door closed, it’s because what was behind it wasn’t meant for you.
Mandy HaleTags: purpose faith opportunity trust destiny new-beginnings the-end positive-thinking meant-to-be open-doors everything-happens-for-a-reason closed-door trusting-the-journey
The wind rose high and free, to soar in an open sky with no clouds. It passed over a broken landscape scattered with corpses not yet buried. A landscape covered, at the same time, with celebrations. It tickled the branches of trees that had finally begun to put forth buds.
The wind blew southward, through knotted forests, over shimmering plains and toward lands unexplored. This wind, it was not the ending. There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time.
But it was an ending.
Tags: ending the-end the-wheel-of-time
the nurse smiled and patted my arm. “Don’t give up yet. Sometimes when we think God has written The End, what he really means is The Beginning.
Rachel Van DykenTags: god the-end don-t-give-up the-beginning
And Constantine thought: So this is how it is, at the end.
George P. PelecanosTags: the-end
Don't most astrophysicists now predict some "end of the line" - an end to it all? Not just the death of things, but the annihilation of everything. Some great contraction, or collapse. Or, perhaps, some vast dissipation into eternal emptiness. Maybe it's all swallowed up by an immense black hole, which then swallows itself. But, whatever the case, their extinction is inevitable and absolute. So complete as to erase any and all evidence that this reality - this existence - ever took place. So complete that, perhaps, for all intents and purposes, it never really did.
(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)
Tags: existence reality universe nihilism the-end eschatology annihilation
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