Quotes About Endings

The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.

In film, you can have sad endings.

It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.

When I begin to write a story, I usually know how things will end. It's the journey toward that point I must discover. The process is sometimes painful, but also exciting.

All partnerships are doomed to die. Almost no partnership ever ended with neutrality and both people retiring at the same time.

Novels are nice,' my friend said. 'They stop.' He waggled his fingers to make quotation marks in the air. 'They say, 'The End.' Very nice. A marvelous invention. Here we have stories, but never 'The End.

I always wondered how it would feel when it was over,' said Malik eventually. 'Turns out it doesn't feel like anything, much.

Because you will leave and we will stay.

Things do not have to last forever to be good, and when they end, it is not always proof that one's principles were wrong.

An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I don't set out to write either funny or kind, but it's a voice they like, quirky like me... And you know, people like happy endings.

All of my marriages lasted seven years.

We thought we'd last forever. Then, of course, we didn't, and that was shocking.

With both novels and short stories, I think a lot in terms of character arcs, when it comes to endings.

I love the idea of stories being about great beginnings and terrible endings.

We come to beginnings only at the end.

I think everybody goes through that, especially... being in love for the first time. Some people, they're lucky enough that that ends up being who they're with for the rest of their lives, and sometimes it doesn't work out.

In the end, everyone loses everyone.

Books, like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the world, but there are ten thousand to go out of it and return no more.

It ended sadly. The kind of ending where you wait together, holding hands and weeping, while off in another room, love slowly dies.

A man once told me that all books should end at chapter seventy-seven.

If there was one truth that I'd learned from all my reading, it was this: Happy endings do not apply to everyone. Someone is always left out of that final, jubilant scene. This time, that someone was me.

Happy endings do not apply to everyone. Someone is always left out of that final, jubilant scene.

For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.

Many things end tonight,' quoth Valgard, 'and your life is one.