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Quotes About Endings

Sometimes painful endings bring the best new beginnings.
~ Shae Ross, Bottom of the Sky
Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
Girls fitted easily into their own and your own picture of someone dying of unrequited love. If they slipped out of it before you were ready, that was all right too; their slipping out frequently was the necessary reminder that an affair had run its course. It also was the necessary reminder that the realist in a woman, the good appraiser, makes her want to take a loss and get out before she is—for the purposes of the analogy—ruined.
~ John O'Hara
I still want to believe that somewhere, somehow, there is a happy ending for every story. It all depends on how thoroughly you look for it and how badly you need it.
~ John Pielmeier
Death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits.
~ John Webster
I know death hath ten thousand several doorsFor men to take their exits.
~ John Webster
That is what New York teaches: beginnings and endings; how to start a scene, and how to escape it.
~ John Weir
Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
~ Ellen Hopkins
That's the great thing about movies, Hitch. The end is the end; everything is resolved one way or the other. You feel joyful or peaceful or relieved, or sometimes disturbed or depressed. But if it's a good ending, it satisfies you, even if it's sad. The war is over, the guy gets the girl, whatever. Real life is a whole lot messier. It doesn't end when things are at a good stopping point.
~ Ellen Wittlinger
That's the great thing about movies, Hitch. The end is the end; everything is resolved one way or the other. You feel joyful or peaceful or relieved, or sometimes disturbed or depressed. But if it's a good ending, if satisfies you, even if it's sad. The war is over, the guy gets the girl, whatever. Real life is a whole lot messier. It doesn't end when things are at a good stopping points" -Uncle Walt
~ Ellen Wittlinger
Esto, después de todo, no ha hecho más que terminar. Dentro de poco, si hay suerte, estaremos todos perdidos.
~ Eloy Tizón
Every ending brings a new beginning. Yes! we do finish one thing in order to begin another thing i.e. your so seemed bad or unhappy ending will mark a fabulous new beginning for you. So, just keep your fingers crossed. I mean, keep on hoping and trusting in God for a positive change.
~ Emeasoba George
He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.
~ Emily Giffin
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane
~ Balzac
Happiness has no history and the story tellers of all lands have understood this so well that the words "they are happy" are the end pf every love tale.
~ Balzac, Honoré de
People tend to think they break up because they get tired of the person they've been with---that it's someone's decision, either yours or theirs. But this really isn't true. Periods in our lives end the way seasons change. That's all there is to it. Human willpower can't change that--which means, if you look at it another way, that we might as well enjoy ourselves until that day arrives.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
People tend to think they break up because they get tired of the person they've been with—that it's someone's decision, either yours or theirs. But this isn't really true. Periods in our lives end the way seasons change. That's all there is to it.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Tutti di solito sono convinti che le persone si separano perché una si è stancata dell'altra, per propria volontà o per volontà dell'altra persona. Ma non è così. I periodi finiscono, come cambiano le stagioni. Semplicemente. È una cosa su cui la volontà individuale non ha nessun potere. Viceversa, si ha la possibilità, fino a quando verrà quel giorno, di godere ogni momento.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
His boyfriend 'sell-by' date had expired two nights ago when—and she shivered at the memory—he'd drunkenly licked her cheek like a standard poodle in lieu of a kiss when he'd said goodnight. Which was the last in a short, but consistent list of line-crossings that had effectively ended them.
~ Barbara Ankrum
Mom, why couldn't my story, my real life story have a happy ending - like in the books?" "No true love story has a happy ending; one always must die and leave the other. So there's never a totally happy ending.
~ Barbara Conklin
A peace agreement isn't like a fairy story. You don't live happily ever after.
~ Jonathan Powell
I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.
~ Ted Demme
There have been many boxing comebacks over the years, and sadly many of them do not have a happy ending.
~ Carl Froch