If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.

There is No Dead END in Christian Life as Some Think

We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism.

I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end.

If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've run into a dead end. That's when the tears would come down.

A dead end street is a good place to turn around.