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Quotes About Ending

Yet the special thing about literature, the major art form of a Western civilization now ending before our very eyes, is not hard to define.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Já na manhã seguinte (...) entendi que uma parte de minha vida acabava de terminar, e era provavelmente a melhor.
~ Michel Houellebecq
The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle.
~ Mickey Spillane
It takes a lot of work to start a conversation—overcoming hesitancy, approaching someone, checking our mind-set, and saying the right things. It also takes a lot of energy to keep a conversation going well. That's where we usually put our focus. So it's surprising to most people that ending a conversation can often be the toughest part.
~ Unknown
she didn't love me any more and that was pretty much the beginning of the end.
~ Mike Gayle
Termine como termine mi historia, nunca olvidaré lo afortunado que soy.
~ Morris Gleitzman
The smile fades where love ends.
~ Unknown
We have reduced the kingdom of God to private piety, the victory of the cross to comfort for the conscience, and Easter itself to a happy, escapist ending after a sad, dark tale.
~ Unknown
Write about "leaving." Approach it any way you want. Write about your divorce, leaving the house this morning, or a friend dying.
~ Natalie Goldberg
A decision to stop dating someone is hard to make, but it should be made as early in the process as possible. In other words, if a new relationship is likely to evolve in a negative direction, the earlier you can end it and move on the better. There are three reasons for this:
~ Unknown
If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters.
~ Nora Ephron
I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.
~ Norm MacDonald
i want you to know this waz an experiment to see how selfish i cd be if i wd really carry on to snare a possible lover if i waz capable of debasin my self for the love of another if i cd stand not being wanted when i wanted to be wanted & i cannot so with no further assistance & no guidance from you i am endin this affair this note is attached to a plant i've been waterin since the day i met you you may water it yr damn self
~ Ntozake Shange
If you want a happy ending, it depends on where you stop the story
~ Orson Welles
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
~ Oscar Wilde
I thought it was a really good story,' Cindy said. She was trying to make me feel better, I think. 'I liked the way it ended. When I was halfway through, I was thinking that maybe some handsome prince was going to show up and save the princess.' 'She didn't need a handsome prince,' I said. 'Those wild girls did just fine on their own.
~ Pat Murphy
There is a last word to be said about the fairy tale. The old woman sends the soldier down into the deep darkness, promising him treasure, but telling him to bring back to her just one thing: an old tinder box. He succeeds, but instead of giving it to her, he kills the old woman and goes off to have his own adventures with the box and the magical genie inside. This is a complicated ending, but worth pondering.
~ Pat Schneider
This is it. This is goodbye. A goodbye I wasn't even looking for.
~ Patrick Ness
Everything's always ending. But everything's always beginning, too.
~ Patrick Ness
The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn's ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
It was deep and wide as autumn's ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
We waltzed beneath God's point of view knowing no ending to our rendezvous we expressed such sweet vows - My Madrigal
~ Patti Smith
Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.
~ Paul Valery
don't know what it is about Africa, but champagne is absolutely compulsory here." Without any further ceremony, Denys tipped his hat to me, and then the two men moved off down the road, turning a corner and passing out of sight. They might have been headed to another party, or to white steeds waiting to whisk them off to an enchanted palace. I would have believed a magic carpet as well, or any storybook ending. They were that lovely, and now they were gone. —
~ Paula McLain