[Note: Quoations from Findlay's works are present throughout this website in each of the contents categories at left.]
"Ends, adding the crowning touches to total experiences, whose character is previously somewhat problematic, are obviously more important, pro tanto, than beginnings or middles: hence the supreme importance of happy endings, and the ruinous character of deeply miserable ones. It is, for this reason, one of the greatest tragedies of existence that most of us die so pitiably" (Values and Intentions, p. 237).