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Quotes About Ending

The clean, clear ending that society keeps looking for is impossible to find.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story.
~ Sandra Brown
The thing about this city," Andray said. "It knows how to tell a beautiful story. It truly does. But if you're looking for a happy ending, you better be lookin' somewhere else.
~ Sara Gran
makes a definite break in the continuum and emphasizes that one phase is ending and another beginning. I
~ Sara Rosett
The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.
~ Don Henley
Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative.
~ Tim Robbins
By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.
~ John Updike
Those who hadn't experienced the death of a parent [...] had an innocence that flew in the face of reality, an expectation that life would still deliver a fairy-tale ending.
~ Marian Keyes
It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.
~ Anthony Burgess
The end of a novel, like the end of children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plum
~ Anthony Trollope
In writing you can always change the ending or delete a chapter that isn't working. Life is uncooperative, impartial, incontestable.
~ Ariel Levy
Love is pointless. It's the same sad sad story of with the same inevitable ending of miserable deterioration.
~ Arnold Arre
Mortal man must always look to his ending. And none can be called happy until that day when he carries his happiness down to the grave in peace. - Sophocles
~ Sophocles
The sooner every party breaks up the better.
~ Jane Austen
Whatever your struggle, my brothers and sisters-mental or emotional or physical or otherwise-do not vote against the preciousness of life by ending it!
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
Raven: "You don't have a hot date, do you?" Alexander: "Yes. I do, as a matter of fact." Raven: "You do?" Alexander: "Yes, and it is almost ending.
~ Ellen Schreiber
Once I had recognized that it was not my vocation to write a happy ending, I did my damnedest to avoid one entirely. I once referred to this process as "Messing up my life, so I could write stupid little songs about it," and I can't improve on that description here, but then songs are never exactly taken from life.
~ Elvis Costello
Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.
~ Barack Obama
One thing that makes me very happy is to have a complicated idea and to feel that I've expressed myself clearly. I remember writing the ending to 'Happier at Home.' I wrote the entire book to build to that ending 'now is now,' and what I had to say was very abstract, and yet I felt satisfied that I managed to say what I wanted to say.
~ Gretchen Rubin
I think it is fair to say that I was denied my on-camera happy ending.
~ Rachel Lindsay
I like a happy ending. That's what I do all the time. I like to make people feel happy.
~ Mort Walker
I think one of the bravest things about the romance genre is allowing people a happy ending.
~ Rege-Jean Page
'City of Fallen Angels' ended on a cliffhanger. That was equally loved and hated by my readership.
~ Cassandra Clare
I've been given an opportunity to finish my career out the way it's supposed to be, having fun.
~ Arn Anderson