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Quotes About Endings

I'm glad and I'm sorry. I'm sorry because this drive has been so pleasant and I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure. And it's so often the case that it isn't pleasanter. That has been my experience anyhow.
~ L.M. Montgomery
They're finished," Bigfoot said. "We've all got a finishing point. These boys have just come to theirs.
~ Larry McMurtry
All life is hindsight, really, stories informed by their endings.
~ Laura Lippman
Only death was final, and without hope; short of that, there were options.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Tomorrow's always there, just over the horizon. Until the tomorrows run out.
~ Lawrence Block
I can't set my hopes too high, 'Cause every hello ends with a goodbye.
~ Demi Lovato
The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about.
~ Tammy Wynette
She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most.
~ Sandra Bullock
I think you have to know how you feel when you're sad and it's healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.
~ Leighton Meester
I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life.
~ Tammara Webber
My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise.
~ Hope Solo
... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.
~ Mercedes Lackey
I've realized that in all the great stories, even if there's a happily-ever-after ending, there's something sad.
~ Emma Thompson
When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.
~ Antonio Porchia
Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.
~ Ray Bradbury, Now and Forever
Fairy Tales give you more than just smile. They give you Hope. Hope that at the end true love conquers all odds and slays every dragon.
~ Ameya Agrawal
Rachel found herself wishing that the week would never end-that her father could stay here forever-but knew he couldn't. If there was one thing she had learned in her brief time at Kalaupapa, it was that all things end.
~ Alan Brennert, Moloka'i
The past 6 and a half years have been the most amazing years of my life. It's sad it has come to an end but Avril and I are still family and moving forward in the most positive way possible.
~ Deryck Whibley
I think we ought to live happily ever after.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.
~ Donald Barthelme
But there are no happy endings, because if things are happy they have not ended.
~ Donald Hall
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
~ John Ruskin
Life is full of temporary situations, ultimately ending in a permanent solution.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.
~ Thomas Hobbes