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Quotes About Ending

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.
~ John Hawkes
With the finale episode of 'Gravity Falls' our job as storytellers is to finish all the things we've started.
~ Alex Hirsch
All knowing darkens as it builds. The grass is a mirror that clouds as the bright look goes in. You stay in the night, you squat in the hills in the cave of night. Wait. Above, luminous rubble, torn webs of radio signals. Below, stone scrapers, neck bone of a deer, salt beds. The world is ending.
~ Tim Lilburn
You're after perfection,'Matt said. 'Is that so awful?' 'No, it's not, but if you aim for perfection, you've got to be ready to take the consequences of not getting it and one of those is ending up with no one.
~ Tim Relf
I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.
~ Oscar Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one, said the young lord, plucking another daisy.
~ Oscar Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one," said the young lord, plucking another daisy. Hallward shook his head. "You don't understand what friendship is, Harry," he murmured -"or what enmity is, for that matter. You like everyone; that is to say, you are indifferent to everyone.
~ Oscar Wilde
I am glad you don't think I am heartless. I am nothing of the kind. I know I am not. And yet I must admit that this thing that has happened does not affect me as it should. It seems to me to be simply like a wonderful ending to a wonderful play. It has all the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which I have not been wounded.
~ Oscar Wilde
Let's see where this leads us, this adventure with the thrum of the music and the blizzard of stagy snow...happy tears freezing to diamonds...let's go, let's go, hurry towards the happy ending....let's go together toward something extraordinary, and I start making plans, thinking we would get that far.
~ Daniel Handler
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
~ C.S. Lewis
Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.
~ Leon Krier
When 'Desperate Housewives' ends, I think my girls will be about the kindergarten age. I will be so happy to be there for them through that huge transition.
~ Marcia Cross
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
~ William Dean Howells
Just look for a strong beginning and a strong ending and get moving.
~ Chip Heath
When you're at the beginning, don't obsess about the middle, because the middle is going to look different once you get there. Just look for a strong beginning and a strong ending and get moving.
~ Chip Heath
I'm under strict instructions to write a happy ending. Rule number ninety-seven: You're not allowed to make a dragon cry." "Right," Said Sophie, starting the engine. "Tears might quench their fire.
~ Chris d'Lacey
Everything you write makes you better. But if you really need a tip, here's one: a good story begins in opposition to its ending. That means you work out how it finishes first, and then begin the story as far away from that point.
~ Chris Wooding
There is a strange taboo in our society against ending something merely because it is not pleasant-- life, love, a conversation, you name it, the etiquette is that you must begin in ignorance & persevere in the face of knowledge, & though I naturally believe that this is profoundly wrong it's not nice to go around constantly offending people.
~ Helen DeWitt
A miracle is a beginning and an ending. 2It thus abolishes time. 3It is always an affirmation of rebirth, which seems to go back but really goes forward. 4It undoes the past in the present, and thus releases the future.
~ Helen Schucman
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Your servant here, he has been told to say it clear, to say it cold: It's over, it ain't going any further And now the wheels of heaven stop you feel the devil's riding crop Get ready for the future: it is murder
~ Leonard Cohen
it's closing time
~ Leonard Cohen
A story always ends just when it comes to an end. Like a breath.
~ Leonie Swann