Quotes About Endings

My life closed twice before its close

That's how life is. Sometimes there are happy endings, sometimes there aren't, and more often there are shades of gray.

A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.

If life teaches anything at all it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes that there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.

One day I will have to forgive life for ending, I tell myself. I will have to learn how to let life be life with its unbearable finality ... just be what it is.

The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end

The problem with movies is that movies end and your life doesn't. This doesn't appear to cause any trouble, but it does cause confusion, which is almost as bad.

This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.

It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.

Of course we all know that's not how life works. The novel that is our life can end at any time. Sometimes even on page one.

The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.

Damn! I hate farewells!

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.

We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one.

I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

tiris the bittersweet awareness that all things must end.

It was the end of my marriage and the end of my tennis career, both at the same time, and almost nobody knew about it except Tatum and me. I felt as though the bottom had dropped out of the world. I couldn't go on, but I had to go on. In Paris, I was literally crying on the changeovers. I would put my head in a towel and fake being angry.

At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.

This, she thought, was the sadness of teachers. Each semester is a contained little life - a relationship that begins, peaks, but always ends. They cycle in, cycle out, but you stay in one place. The teacher grows older, but the students never age. They are perpetually eighteen, twenty-one, lives always just on the cusp of beginning. You watch them walk off into the world, knowing you helped them become what they're becoming. You suffer the same ending again and again.

All things end, but this had been a healthy and happy part of my life, much better than the bit before.

But ends are also beginnings, you know. Every single story has a beginning at its end.

The last days before graduation are bad enough, God knows--out of the womb you go, ready or not. The halls rang with the laughter of the girls who were going to be brides in the next week (and widows shortly after)...