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Quotes About Ending

All that had been was now no more.
~ Pearl S. Buck
I don't want an angry song with no silver lining ending up on my album. Then I'd have to play, or feel obliged to play, that song every night in repetition as a mantra of anger.
~ Alex Ebert
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.
~ Jeff Bridges
It is because everything must come to an end that everything is so beautiful.
~ Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging in such a way that an end can be projected by the reader somewhere beyond the right frame. If no such convergence or projection occured to you, then the book's failed for you.
~ David Foster Wallace
Even the novice alone can see quickly that a life conducted, temporarily or no, as a simple renunciation of value becomes at best something occluded and at worst something empty: a life of waiting for the will-be-never. Sitting in passive acceptance of (not judgment on) the happening and ending of things.
~ David Foster Wallace
These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder.
~ William Shakespeare
A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story
~ William Shakespeare
Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant; And my ending is despair, Unless I be relieved by prayer
~ William Shakespeare
So farewell to the little good you bear me Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!
~ William Shakespeare
Bullets--to a philosopher my dear Mamma--are not worth considering. I do not believe the Gods would create so potent a being as myself for so prosaic an ending.
~ Winston S. Churchill
The sun was beginning to pull the curtains on the day.
~ Yann Martel
I know about the note and so do the police. I never want to see you again. It's over. Dumping by text. That's the most he deserves.
~ Unknown
Just as I am writing at the same as I am being read. Only I do not start with the ending that would justify the beginning as death appears to comment on life because I must record the preceeding events.
~ Clarice Lispector
And somewhere inside me I felt an awful feeling that something in my life was coming quietly to an end.
~ Unknown
Let's start with a love story. Or maybe it's another horror story. It seems like the difference is mostly in where the ending comes.
~ Holly Black
Let's start with a love story. Or maybe it's another horror story. It seems like the difference is mostly in where the ending comes.
~ Holly Black
Heart's fragrance is spent with the ending of spring And nothing left but a tear-stained robe.
~ Li Shangyin
Reader, she didn't marry him,
~ Liane Moriarty
Both of us were quiet with the recognition that something was ending, and something was beginning.
~ Lisa Kleypas
'The Vampire Diaries' is a serialized drama. It deserved its final chapter.
~ Julie Plec
I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to a French movie. That's a betrayal of trust to me. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can't just build off the first one or play variations.
~ Joss Whedon
She'd lost her taste for fiction. Sometimes she thought it was because spending even a few hours in an imaginary world would make it too tempting for her to consider other versions of her own story, other ways it could have unfolded. A different ending, a true happily-ever-after.
~ Jennifer Weiner