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Quotes About Endings

If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.
~ Sarah Dessen
I've seen what commitment leads to, and it isn't pretty. Going in is the easy part. It's the endings that suck.
~ Sarah Dessen
Me and Ethan, dancing in the dark at the end of the world.
~ Sarah Dessen
I would have loved to know how it felt, just once, to have something fall part and see options instead of endings.
~ Sarah Dessen
You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends.
~ Sarah Dessen
It was terrible and awful when someone left you. You could move on, do the best you could, but like Eli had said, an ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.
~ Sarah Dessen
It was a failure of my imagination that made me keep leaving people. All I could see in the world were beginnings and endings: moments to survive, record, and, once recorded, safely forget. I knew I was getting somewhere when I began losing interest in the beginnings and the ends of things. Short tragic love stories that had once interested me no longer did. What interested me was the kind of love to which the person dedicates herself for so long, she no longer remembers quite how it began.
~ Sarah Manguso
Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.
~ Scott Snyder
What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Real life doesn't have many happy endings. Why shouldn't books make up the difference?
~ Scott Westerfeld
You don't think happy endings are stupid anymore? Your question is irrelevant, Imogen said. This isn't the end.
~ Scott Westerfeld
daddy and it contained within it the prospect of living and the hope of dying, of endings and beginnings, of love and loss and peace and rage, all wrapped up in two whispered syllables.
~ John Connolly
After many trials the God and his love end happily—tho' not all remember this conclusion—which is less memorable than the moment when everything was lost. Happy endings are all alike; disasters may be unique.
~ John Crowley
Stories were the way People lived. Like paths, they could be traveled in any direction, yet always ran from beginning to end.
~ John Crowley
It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Everything in life, I have come to conclude, is about 15 minutes too long. Except for summer - summer never begins early enough and always ends too soon.
~ Peter Gzowski
I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death, and something else I'd rather not recall just now.
~ Anna Akhmatova
Life isn't a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between
~ Kristen Bell
Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.
~ Cameron Dokey
A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending.
~ Chita Rivera
The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
God never ends anything on a negative God always ends on a positive.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
But death is what completes a man. —Kaido
~ Eiichiro Oda
Besos desesperados que hablaban de finales, más que de comienzos
~ Eileen Goudge