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Quotes About Ending

By the time the last of these relationships ended I was such a quaking mass of colliding, exploding neurotransmitter malfunctions that the only coherent sentence I could form in my native tongue went: Never again.
~ Merrill Markoe
it is the most militant, most radical intervention anyone can make to not only speak of love, but to engage in the practice of love. For love as the foundation of all social movements for self-determination is the only way we create a world that domination and dominator thinking cannot destroy. Anytime we do the work of love we are doing the work of ending domination.
~ bell hooks
Since the world is ending," Peter quoted from behind us, "why not let the children touch the paintings?
~ Ben Lerner
Why reproduce if you believe the world is ending? Because the world is always ending for each of us and if one begins to withdraw from the possibilities of experience, then no one would take any of the risks involved with love.
~ Ben Lerner
So now I shall write the tale's ending with my sword beside me and I shall hope that I am given time to finish this tale of Arthur, my Lord, who was betrayed, reviled and, after his departure, missed like no other man was ever missed in all of Britain's history.
~ Bernard Cornwell
I think sometimes people really require the satisfaction of closure.
~ Diablo Cody
Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
But remember, continuing a wrong relationship only increases the pain when it finally does end.
~ Joshua Harris
Death is just the last scene of the last act.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Esto ya se acabó o se está acabando; lo único que puede hacerse es elegir que se acabe de una manera o de otra.
~ Juan Carlos Onetti
You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.
~ Julia Quinn
His life as he knew it was over.
~ Julia Quinn
I hope and believe all the people that worked very closely with me at BHS for all those years, and some for the whole journey, will know it was never my intention for the business to have the ending it did.
~ Philip Green
If this book were limited to 140 pages, it would end here.
~ Biz Stone
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
Women have been conditioned to please. We are responsible not just for ourselves but everyone in our orbit. We think it is our job to comfort the man. We think we can make things better by sacrificing a bit of ourselves. But you're also right to ask. It's the first thing I tell my clients: If you're ready to end it, end it. Make a clean break and don't look back. You don't owe him anything.
~ Harlan Coben
No one dies halfway through the last act. – Heinrich Ibsen
~ Harold Bloom
Everything ended in silence. The beasts and spirits heaved a deep breath, broke up their encirclement, and returned to the depths of a forest that had lost its heart.
~ Haruki Murakami
I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.
~ John Irving
'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
I had a New Year's kiss once. But it was like, 'Let's start the year off together,' and then we wound up breaking up the night after!
~ Joe Jonas
For all I know, I am beginning with the ending. My page one can wind up a year later as page two hundred, if it's still even around.
~ Philip Roth
My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
~ Jack Whitehall
'Fargo' is a tragedy with a happy ending. So you need to have that tragic underpinning, that all of this could be avoidable, and that's what makes it tragic. It's about the use of violence, and the fact that the tension in anticipation of violence and the tension in anticipation of a laugh are sort of the same.
~ Noah Hawley