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Quotes About Endings

The 'Bachelor' franchise does believe in happy endings - some people get an on-camera happy ending, some people get on off-camera happy ending, and some people get both.
~ Rachel Lindsay
The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.
~ Robert Creeley
There are as many kinds of anger as there are of the sunsets with which they ought to end
~ George MacDonald
La palabra ADIÓS es la más difícil de escribir de todas las palabras del mundo.
~ Geraldine McCaughrean
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
~ Frank Zappa
I always tend to tilt dark on an ending, because I feel like, especially with horror movies, those are the endings that don't evaporate. Those are the ones that stick with you.
~ Mike Flanagan
My problem is, I give something a lot of time and space, but once it's over, it's over.
~ Mimi Chakraborty
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
~ Mary Catherine Bateson
I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a beginning, middle and end. If you draw out the end too long, I think storytelling can get tired.
~ Melissa Rosenberg
I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.
~ Ted Naifeh
Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before I see first chapters, too. I usually begin with endings, with a sense of aftermath, of dust settling, of epilogue.
~ John Irving
No matter how well you take care of the dying, no matter if you sit beside them every minute, every day—in the end they must go, and you stay. And you wave them off. You lie.
~ Sarah Blake
I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect... As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.
~ Sarah Dessen
What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive.
~ Sarah Dessen
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.
~ Sarah Manguso
The quality that all last words share: the silence after.
~ Sarah Manguso
Just because a relationship ends, it doesn't mean it's not worth having.
~ Sarah Mlynowski
So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.
~ Sarah Orne Jewett
Seems like we always spend the best part of our time just saying goodbye.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.
~ Samuel Johnson
I mean, maybe under the surface, somewhere that's hard to see, I've known it had to end for a long time. I just never thought I'd be the one to end it.
~ Susane Colasanti
I love spoilers, and I read spoilers all the time. I make people tell me the endings of movies before I go to see them, and yet I refuse to give spoilers. It's kind of unfair, but that's how I roll.
~ Mariko Tamaki
When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly where to stop - that is, with a marriage; but when he writes about juveniles, he must stop where he best can.
~ Mark Twain
Cuando se escriben novelas sobre adultos, uno sabe donde tiene que parar: esto es, en la boda. Pero cuando se escribe una novela sobre jóvenes, hay que parar donde mejor se pueda.
~ Mark Twain