Ending Quotes

When you begin, you envision a better end but, when you get to the end, you see the beginning better!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of hands pulled off of clocks, of cold stones, of shoes filled with nothing but wind.

~ Jandy Nelson

Nothing truly dies. All energy simply transforms.

~ Suzy Kassem

If a road ends, that creates a great opportunity to develop new abilities to continue! Welcome every challenge in your life!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

I will take what I can from Edward. And then I will let them fade into history, all the characters in this drama. Emma Matthews and the men who loved her, who became obsessed with her. They're not important to us now.

~ J.p. Delaney

The priceless lesson in the New Year is that endings birth beginnings and beginnings birth endings. And in this elegantly choreographed dance of life, neither ever find an end in the other.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

There's never a beginning for eternity.

~ Toba Beta

I fear that there will be no neat ending to this, in the manner of the old Greek plays. Where the Gods descend, and all is explained, and tidied away.

~ Paul Mcauley

The day is ending, it's not coming back.

~ Gayle Forman

Full emergency power to the engines. Ram the Blade ship.

~ Katherine Applegate

Too often our lives are soiled to desperation by endings that in reality are magnificently outnumbered by beginnings. And unless we become convinced that an ending is always the birthplace of a beginning that is on its way, we will live terribly soiled lives.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To blithely discard the spent kernels of something that has ended is to discard the very resources that have painstakingly been harvested from that ending from which a spirited new beginning will be cultivated.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I've decided I don't like books that end with 'The End'. The fact that there are no more pages, suggests to me that the book has ended.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

We're still on the run. That's for sure.Right on. This time we're on.And we won't stop till we win.

~ Koushun Takami

This haze of blood must subside, the palace must collapse under the weight of the riches it conceals, the orgy must finish and the time come to awaken.

~ Gustave Flaubert

Sometimes what seems to be the ending of something is really the beginning of Everything.

~ Kate Mcgahan

Obsession and possession are just sessions destined to end soon.

~ Pushpa Rana

I sat in the dark and thought: There’s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones.

~ Neil Gaiman

In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate.

~ Noah Feldman

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

~ George Orwell

In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.

~ J. F. C. Fuller

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

~ Neil Simon

The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves and their subsequent being worked to death by the millions in many ways, whether it's the immigrant processes which began for many people, new worlds ending their old ones.

~ Junot Díaz

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

~ Mary Catherine Bateson

The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.

~ Gerry Adams

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

~ Igor Stravinsky

We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.

~ Gerry Adams

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

~ Kate Millett

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

~ Elizabeth Bowen

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

~ John Heywood

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

~ George Burns

'Sleepless' was a script that had been written by three or four other writers before me, and it never really worked, but it had this amazing ending on the top of the Empire State Building that just worked, no matter what came before it.

~ Nora Ephron

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

~ Pauline Kael

There is a lot of work out there to take people out of the loop in things like medical diagnosis. But if you are taking humans out of the loop, you are in danger of ending up with a very cold form of AI that really has no sense of human interest, human emotions, or human values.

~ Louis B. Rosenberg

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

~ Orson Welles

My favorite thing about movies is the ending, and so all my favorite movies have really great endings.

~ Emma Stone

I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination.

~ Billy Collins

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

~ Bob Woodward

It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.

~ Dale Earnhardt

The problem with romantic comedies is you know the ending by the poster. So they're not movies you can keep doing over and over again expect satisfaction somehow.

~ Ryan Reynolds