Ends Quote by Garth Nix

“Even a dead fish can float down a river .... To truly live, we must have a direction toward which we swim.”

— RVM

“What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin. Words are a gift to the dead and…

— Doug Dorst

Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues…

— Ivan Turgenev

Death lieth still in the way of life, Like as a stone in the way of a brook; I will sing against thee, Death,…

— Sidney Lanier

Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you.

— Sun Tzu

“If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.”

— Sun Tzu

“Normally death came at night, taking a person in their sleep, stopping their heart or tickling them awake, leading them to the bathroom with…

— Louise Penny

“I stood there, listening. The wind blew snow from the branches. Snow blew out of the woods in eddies and sweeping gusts. I raised…

— Don DeLillo

Those who are in search of the sea should follow the river.

— Vikrant Parsai

There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river.

— David R. Brower

Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

— Francis Bacon

If the river has a soul, it's a peaceful one. If it has a lesson to impart, that lesson is patience. There will be…

— Therese Anne Fowler