Quotes About Ending

Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.

I should have kept him to the end," said Mrs. Oliver. "In a book, I mean," she added apologetically. "Real life's a bit different," said Battle.

I believe in picking a strong ending.

In my mind, it is certainly much nicer to end on a high note rather than on a Stout Pig.

I think the writing on the wall is definitely there this year that this is probably our last year.

A lot of relationships have ended for me in my 20s, because I knew that eventually those people would wanna settle down and have kids.

Anyway, the title The War of the Insect Gods came before we had that ending, before we knew they had become gods. That we knew the evolutionary cycle they went through. Before we even knew anything about that. We had an ending.

Thus ended Tess's short career in herpevangelism.

Is it always this miserable saying goodbye?

Cuando el cielo se oscureció y aunque no eran más que nubes, tuve la sensación de que todo terminaba y la sensación de haber sentido lo mismo un millón de veces.

I can't say that the ending of a story is always the best part of the story, and yet there's sort of this implicit idea that the finale is somehow supposed to be the mind-blowing best episode of a show. The question is: Why is that? Why do people make that assumption?

The force that has come closest across American history to actually ending America was white supremacy. That was the Civil War.

Ekk Deewana Tha' will have a surprise ending to watch out for.

We opened our eyes and turned in bed to take a good look at each other. We both knew it then. We'd reached the end of something, and the thing was to find out where new to start.

Quella notte, avvolto nelle coperte, avrebbe ricordato quei pochi minuti di intensa sensazione del tempo che passava, del giorno che finiva.

Écoutez, Coban, c'est terminé. —C'est commencé...

To control the deaths of others - when, where, the craft of ensuring it was a cleanly sliced ending - that was possible. And in some strange way, such killing felt like controlling whatever remained of his own life.

You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.

For a moment in time she'd expected his narrative to end the way Cinderella's story had, and not the way a Greek myth would.

I never believed me mam when she finished a story with 'And they all lived happily ever after'. 'No, they didn't. I don't believe it,' I'd say. I prefered Humpty Dumpty – nice and short, and a realistic ending. He never hurt anyone, but he had a little accident and died. Shit happens. That's life, innit.

If I was a locksmith, I'd be pimping that out man. I'll trade you a free key duplication for. That joke made me laugh before I could finish it, which is good, because it had no ending.

I break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper.

The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.

Peace is not merely a vacuum left by the ending of wars. It is the creation of two eternal principles, justice and freedom.