Endings Quotes

In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.

~ Ellen Hopkins

These felt very much like last moments.

~ China Miéville

I know you’re just a rag doll now, sewn together with memories that we might have had. I know you’re just the dream inside of a dream And don’t worry, I know I don’t know you, anymore.

~ Pleasefindthis

I choose to love you in silence, for in silence I find no rejection.I choose to love you in loneliness, for in loneliness no one owns you but me.I choose to adore you from a distance, for distance will shield me from pain.I chose to kiss you in the wind, for the wind is gentler than my lips.I choose to hold you in my dreams, for in my dreams you have no end.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

There's things that have no finish, Scully, no ending to speak of. There's no justice to it, but that's the God's truth. The only end some things have is the end you give em.

~ Tim Winton

And time inherently creates a story. Things begin and they end. How they end is the story. Or maybe it's what happens between when they begin and end that's the story.

~ Arianna Huffington

«And in the end» said the witch to the drowning prince «You've been the one choosing the thornless path in spite of knowing where it could lead. The one who afraid of the pricking roses, plunged himself into an abyss without petals

~ Nur Bedeir

But she couldn't start this, because then it would end. Stories like this always ended. She couldn't take this pleasure, because she would spend the rest of her life missing it, hurting from it.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

I guess I just don't get the point. It's like, why should you bother getting attached to anything if,A: It's never gonna last, andB: It hurts like hell when it's over?

~ Alyson Noel

I have a story to tell you. It has many beginnings, and perhaps one ending. Perhaps not. Beginnings and endings are contingent things anyway; inventions, devices. Where does any story really begin? There is always context, always an encompassingly greater epic, always something before the described events, unless we are to start every story with “BANG! Expand! Sssss…,” then itemize the whole subsequent history of the universe before settling down, at last, to the particular tale in question. Similarly, no ending is final, unless it is the end of all things…

~ Iain M. Banks

It’s hard to say where a story begins and ends. You have to draw an arbitrary line somewhere. Somewhere between perception and reality. Between what is spoken and what is heard. Between what is written and what is edited out. I know this, you can’t have an ending without a beginning. Even if they are really just random pieces of the middle that tend to stand out. Staccato notes on the page. Points on a circle.

~ Thomas Lloyd Qualls

The best endings resonate because they echo a word, phrase, or image from earlier in the story, and the reader is prompted to think back to that reference and speculate on a deeper meaning.

~ James Plath

There are only three possible endings —aren't there? — to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That’s it. All stories end like that.

~ Jeanette Winterson

Should teach us that there are no happy endings, so no desilusionariamos us if we did not get our happy ending.

~ Kat Unda

If you look for endings you can always find one, but I truly felt as if I had used up the last of my youth, if youth is that finite stage of life when it all feels expeditionary, inexact.

~ Charles Finch

A true love story has no endings.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Endings bring new beginnings. Love has many truths. And knights come in all colours.

~ Dianna Hardy

To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The irony of lifeIs our greatest fear is to forget,Yet it's the only certain fateThat anything has ever met.We know one day our earthWill find itself victim to time,That nothing will be leftTo tell of your story or mine,And still through life we rushScrambling for something to remember,Perish the thought that ash be ashAnd not the memory of an ember.

~ Erin Hanson

Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.

~ Milan Kundera

It's possible to find order in chaos, and it's equally possible to find chaos underlying apparent order. Order and chaos are slippery concepts. They're like a set of twins who like to swap clothing from time to time. Order and chaos frequently intermingle and overlap, the same as beginnings and endings. Things are often more complicated, or more simple, than they seem. Often it depends on your angle. I think that telling a story is a way of trying to make life's complexity more comprehensible. It's a way of trying to separate order from chaos, patterns from pandemonium.

~ Gavin Extence

How we begin and how we end any relationship is a product of planning, fortuity, and personality. Many enterprises commenced in good faith spiral into confusion, discord, and disarray, generate turmoil and corruption, sunburn the sensitive parties, and conclude in a cesspool of regret and animosity.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.

~ Robin Hobb

He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.

~ Emily Giffin

A horrible end is better than endless horror.

~ Oliver Markus

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

~ Colum Mccann

My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.

~ Ann Leckie

The inimitable stories of Tong-King never have any real ending, and this one, being in his most elevated style, has even less end than most of them. But the whole narrative is permeated with the odour of joss-sticks and honourable high-mindedness, and the two characters are both of noble birth.

~ Ernest Bramah

The end never comes when you think it will. It’s always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left.

~ Lena Dunham

Everything has to come to an end, sometime.

~ L. Frank Baum

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

Major Chhetri's pronouncement when we'd first arrived in Nepal came echoing back: Things that start in the rain end well.

~ Jane Wilson-Howarth

Then he lets go and walks down the path, without another word. He doesn't look back. But I watch him go. I watch him all the way home.

~ Allie Condie In Matched

But there was a fire waiting. And there was a little meal laid out on a blanket. And there was a whole world beyond that shoreline, beyond the forest, beyond the knuckle mountains, beyond, beyond, beyond, not beneath the surface at all, but beyond and waiting.

~ Emily M. Danforth

What I would be quite wise to remember is that ‘pieces’ are not the end of what was, but the beginning of what is to be.

~ 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

As they walked away, hand in hand, they vowed to be together forever, not knowing that forever always ended.

~ Cristiane Serruya

It's a lot easier to say when something ended rather than when it began. Most of us can recognize the end from a mile away, but the beginning always slips up on us, lulling us into thinking what we're living through is yet another moment, in yet another day.

~ Steve Yarbrough