Endings Quotes

It ended sadly. The kind of ending where you wait together, holding hands and weeping, while off in another room, love slowly dies.

~ Abigail Thomas

All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop.She's realized the real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.

~ Neil Gaiman

What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.

~ Scott Westerfeld

Exiting from any long-term relationship comes at great personal expense, which explains why so many people are understandably reluctant to endure the cost of severance. Beginnings and endings are always dramatic and occasionally traumatic. Youthful brio allows us to engage in transformation. As we age, we carefully weigh the spectacle of continuing enduring harrowing situations or seeking melodramatic renovation of our core being. Analysis of the respective cost benefit ratio, consideration of the known versus the unknown, can delay or permanently deter us from altering our environment, leading our persona to become more rigid as we mature. Transformations in life are disconcerting to people who resist change.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The beauty of life isn't the perfectioned moments or storybook endings; the beauty of life is when you fall flat on your face, the Lord picks you up, then you look around and cheer, after all, a merry heart is the medicine!

~ Mary Kate

Maybe I don’t have enough beginnings in my life because I fought against the endings that were about to birth those beginnings.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Without a beginning I am pouring the whole of my existence into the building of endings, while the cross and the resurrection declare that God is incessantly building beginnings from the collapse of endings.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sometimes painful endings bring the best new beginnings.

~ Shae Ross

Maybe I should stop while I'm aheadNay, I swim with sea-demons no sweet summer tuned radioover my sunless desertscapehow does it burn without the sun?

~ Moonshine Noire

When you care about things, it ends up wearing you out.

~ Io Sakisaka

An ending is only happening because at some point it was a beginning. And if an ending is dependent upon a beginning, I would be well advised to focus on the miracle of beginnings verses the pain of endings.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The end for us came with a knock on my window.

~ Liz Thebart

Neither father nor son moved, but stayed face to face for hours and hours, neither looking away nor surrendering, until the sun finished its daily pilgrimage, for no day is so long that it is not ended by nightfall.

~ Rabih Alameddine

It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to has power over you.

~ Leon Brown

And I hope above all you give your heart to someone again no matter how many broken promises you have recieved.

~ Nikki Rowe

Only in cartoons and fairy tales and greeting cards do endings have glitter

~ Holly Goldberg Sloan

Some people can’t be in your life because they don’t have the power to help you improve it. That doesn’t mean you don’t wish them well, it just means that you are on Chapter ten of your life, when they are on Chapter five. Maybe, it is just enough to meet at the crossroads in life and agree to take separate paths, then with a cheshire grin you both look back and shout, “Beat you to the top of the mountain”, followed by the funnest sprint of both of your lives.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really FEEL the loss.

~ Mandy Hale

Spring is proof that there is beauty in new beginnings.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

We must be conscious of this; one day, the life we have, will be gone.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

As I witness the dead of beloved ones, it makes be become more conscious that life indeed has an end.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Can't say I've ever been too fond of beginnings, myself. Messy little things. Give me a good ending anytime. You know where you are with an ending.

~ Neil Gaiman

Once upon a time I thought I could change stories, make them go the way I wanted, instead of where they actually went.

~ April Genevieve Tucholke

There were never going to be any happy ending for me. I know that now. But that is all right. That is all right.

~ S.j. Watson

A person's destiny often ends before his death.

~ Milan Kundera

Just cuz you get to the end doesn’t mean you know what happened.

~ Karen Tei Yamashita

As it peaks over the horizon, does not a sunrise whisper the opportunity to try again. And if the day passes and our efforts were stunted by the bane of our insecurities or blunted by the challenges of life, does not a sunset invite us to rest before it whispers the same message the next morning?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It's not the endings that will haunt youBut the space where they should lie,The things that simply fadedWithout one final wave goodbye.

~ Erin Hanson

Today’s ashes are tomorrow’s soil.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It doesn't matter if you never see someone again, I told myself. There are millions of people in the world, and most of them never see each other in the first place. You hoped to know Ellington Feinr forever, but there's no such thing as forever, really. Everything is much shorter than that.

~ Lemony Snicket

We may be different, but in this moment we're feeling the exact same thing: the sad kind of bliss where you realize, suddenly, how perfect your life really has been all along. So perfect it hurts, and you could let yourself weep if you wanted. So perfect that even though everything you know is ending, you truly believe life will continue to be beautiful, even—or maybe especially—in those pure moments of loss.

~ Emily Henry

Even though their marriage had been dead for over two years (her words, not mine), this put her in the role of the innocent. She was now a woman scorned. ~Shattered Reality

~ Brenda Perlin

A whole Gothic world had come to grief...there was now no armour glittering through the forest glades, no embroidered feet on the green sward; the cream and dappled unicorns had fled...

~ Evelyn Waugh

Build your life on your dreams, because dreams never have bad endings.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

The cross unerringly exposes this stunningly marvelous and abruptly exquisite declaration that God will not let this single life of mine, with all of its grotesque maladies and pathetic filth pass into oblivion without unflinchingly declaring that my life carries a value worth the expenditure of His. And if I dare look upon the cross, I am utterly perplexed but wholly enraptured by the immensity of such a love as this.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Jason knew his life would never be the same again. British intelligence now had an ace up their sleeve, and Jason had to overcome his fears and deal with the secret world he was now a part of. He would have to grow a tough shell around himself. Despite his many friends, his grandparents and love of his father, he was painfully aware he was very much alone in this world. When it came down to it, there was only one person he could really rely on in the world,and he was called Jason Steed.

~ Mark A. Cooper

All's well that ends well.''Assuming there's an end somewhere,' Aomame said.Tamaru formed some short creases near his mouth that were faintly reminiscent of a smile. 'There has to be an end somewhere. It's just that nothing's labeled This is the end. Is the top rung of a ladder labeled This is the last rung. Please don't step higher than this'?Aomame shook her head.'It's the same thing,' Tamaru said.Aomame said, 'If you use common sense and keep your eyes open, it becomes clear enough where the end is.'Tamaru nodded. 'And even if it doesn't' -- he made a falling gesture with his finger -- 'the end is right there.

~ Haruki Murakami

With us, there were always too many false starts. I believe that what's meant to be usually has a way of working out... and with us, it never did. Call it timing, call it fate, call it what you want. It is what it is. Sometimes in the end, the girl doesn't always get the boy--and that's ok. Life goes on. You know better than anyone that some love stories never get their happy ending... but it doesn't make them any less of a love story though, does it? It doesn't make the love the two shared any less relevant.

~ Britney King

He got up and ran on, pitching himself down the hill, flying through the branches of the firs, leaping roots and rocks without seeing them. As he went, the hill got steeper and steeper, until it was really like falling. He was going too fast and he knew when he came to a stop, it would involve crashing into something, and shattering pain.Only as he went on, picking up speed all the time, until with each leap he seemed to sail through yards of darkness, he felt a giddy surge of emotion, a sensation that might have been panic but felt strangely like exhilaration. He felt as if at any moment his feet might leave the ground and never come back down. He knew this forest, this darkness, this night. He knew his chances: not good. He knew what was after him. It had been after him all his life. He knew where he was - in a story about to unfold an ending. He knew better than anyone how these stories went, and if anyone could find their way out of these woods, it was him.(Best New Horror)

~ Joe Hill

The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.

~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel