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Quotes About Endings

That's the kind of stories I know. Sad ones. Anyway, taken to it's logical conclusion, every story is sad, because at the end everyone dies.
~ Margaret Atwood
Thy only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die, John and Mary die, John and Mary die.
~ Margaret Atwood
So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with.
~ Margaret Atwood
I wanted happy endings in those days, and happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked and going to sleep during the rampages.
~ Margaret Atwood
You'll have to face it, the endings are the same however you slice it. Don't be deluded by any other endings, they're all fake, either deliberately fake, with malicious intent to deceive, or just motivated by excessive optimism if not by downright sentimentality. The only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die. John and Mary die. John and Mary die.
~ Margaret Atwood
I try every time for a project to have a natural ending. As much as I can, I try to follow the story and to give it its own end.
~ Sophie Calle
It reminded him that time was short, but that beautiful endings could still be found at the end of cold, dreary days.
~ Jamie Ford
There's never a right time to say goodbye.
~ Chris Brown
There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time.
~ Stephen King
I think any athlete will tell you that season-ending losses stay with you for a long time. If you are one of the main reasons for a season-ending loss, it sticks with you longer.
~ Chipper Jones
The last time you're doing something - knowing you're doing it for the last - makes it even more alive than the first.
~ Gloria Naylor
I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death, and something else I'd rather not recall just now.
~ Anna Akhmatova
She lived in fear of ifonic endings. (91)
~ Anne Lamott
The trouble with dying is you don't get to see how everything turns out. You don't know the ending.
~ Anne Tyler
The trouble with dying is that you don't get to see how everything turns out. You won't know the ending.
~ Anne Tyler
The trouble with dying," she'd told Jeannie once, "is that you don't get to see how everything turns out. You won't know the ending." "But, Mom, there is no ending," Jeannie said. "Well, I know that," Abby said. In theory.
~ Anne Tyler
Happy endings are popular. Do you not watch movies? Yeah, but that's movies, Darcy groaned. Books are above all that!
~ Scott Westerfeld
There are probably a dozen perfect happy endings you could write. And a thousand bittersweet ones, and at least a million that are gloriously tragic. Alas, you only get to pick one.
~ Scott Westerfeld
There definitely is an overriding optimism in most of your songs. People don't mind a little misery, but they also like happy endings. It's nice to leave some hope at the end that things will work out. See, Lindsey won't do that. He'll say, "Go your own way." I wouldn't, most likely.
~ Sean Egan
Whoever wants to know how it's all going to end before it actually does? Only poets and madmen, I would think.
~ Shana Abé
We all have to find our own ways to say goodbye. (161)
~ Sherman Alexie
You know when you're a kid and you think, 'Oh no, I've got double math, this is never gonna end,' but then it ends, and it's like it never happened? That's like life.
~ Craig Ferguson
There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.
~ Donald Harington
There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers