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Quotes About Ending

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
~ Karl Marx
Sometimes saying 'goodbye' may be the best thing to say to someone!
~ Avijeet Das
Love is at the root of a positive attitude.
~ Mark Andrew Poe, Ending Easter
That day at chemo, we talked once more about the ending of The Reluctant Fundamentalist. "I just really want to know which character dies. I've read the ending again and again," I said. "I hate not knowing." "I do too. That's why I always read endings first. But sometimes you just can't know what's going to happen, even when you know everything there is to know. So you prepare for the worst but hope for the best.
~ Will Schwalbe
I asked: "And I was very surprised by the ending. Were you?" "Of course not—I'd read it first.
~ Will Schwalbe
asked: "And I was very surprised by the ending. Were you?" "Of course not—I'd read it first. I don't think I could have stood the suspense if I hadn't known what was going to happen. I'd have been way too worried.
~ Will Schwalbe
One of the biggest problems that endings cause in an organization is confusion. Things change, and obviously the organization won't do some of the things it used to do.
~ William Bridges
What the American public wants is a tragedy with a happy ending
~ William Dean Howells
Neviena kaisl?ba nevar beigties ne ar ko citu k? vien tra??diju.
~ David Foenkinos
Horror fiction seems to spawn more dumbass 'rules' than any other kind of writing, and one of the dumbest is the assumed 'requirement' of a twist ending, going all the way back to H.H. Munro. This story is also the result of a long rumination on how stories are sometimes scuttled or diminished by succumbing to such 'rules'.
~ David J. Schow
Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.
~ Thomas Carlyle
When God rang the bell that ended the fight, the world cried out for one more round.
~ Jesse Jackson
There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.
~ Abraham Lincoln
But, for a little while, this is the place for us -- a good place too--a place of good omen, a place of beginning things--and of ending things I never thought would end.
~ Beryl Markham
This is me, Clive Anderson, saying good night. Good night.
~ Clive Anderson
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
I proclaim publicly that I favor ending government involvement in education.
~ Marshall Fritz
They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.
~ Honore de Balzac
To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I've come with a happy heart from the beginning, and hope there is a happy ending.
~ Jaejoong
And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.
~ Stephen King
My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.
~ Tom Helm
It was the last time I would ever do that.
~ Gail Gillespie-Fox
There is this strangeness of a life story having no shape—or more accurately, nothing but its present—until it has its ending; and then suddenly the whole trajectory is visible.
~ James Wood