whimper quotes

This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  'The Hollow Men', closing lines.

Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road.

-Walt(er) Whitman
  Leaves of Grass,'Song of the Open Road', section1.