Quotes About Ending

After all, the purpose of negative stakes in a story is to contrast with the happy ending we all want to experience.

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Remember that your life is a story. Why not write your own ending-and then make it happen.

So a story starts with change, which leads to a goal, which raises a story question in the reader's mind. But how do you end the novel? You do so by answering the story question you posed at the outset.

If this moment was a sentence, I'd be the period.

We are a stoic, reserved bunch who hide our emotions well - except when reading a terribly sad or poignant story, of course. I have been known to sob aloud at a tragic ending.

If the ending is messy, one doesn't remember anything good about any of it.

If caught, he would feel fury and indignation at the game ending too soon.

It was quality that killed Lilly; it was the end of The Great Gatsby, which was not her ending, which was not an ending within her grasp.

The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices.

In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.

I aint tired of pretending, I'm terrified of it ending.

Before a new chapter is begun, the old one has to be finished:

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. It is an adventure, a storybook with each chapter a new tale. An unknown ending to await. And filled with hope to triumph all dismay. Wish for courage to turn the page and live to conquer the chapter.

It's a hell of a thing to say good-bye to your whole life.

No, no, I'm just fucking with you. They all lived happily ever after. Seriously.

Perhaps the final proof that the war was really over came at six o'clock on the first evening, with the pipe - 'children to supper'.

A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending!

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

With my being from Hawaii and being very family oriented I don't really have a fear of a tragic ending. I dont see any tragic ending for me.

Every story has an ending. But in life, every ending is a new beginning..

Life is like chapters in a book.. We can't erase what has been already written but we can write a better ending because we are the writer of our lives..

Maybe life is a song but you're scared to sing along until the very ending.

The reality of living happily ever after is the knowledge that life doesn't always have happy ending.