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Quotes About Endings

Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.
~ Wilkie Collins
Vedete, una storia che finisce puoi affrontarla. Fa male, e per un po' è un dolore così lacerante che è come se i polmoni collassassero e il cuore implodesse ogni volta che ti rendi conto che se n'è andato. Ma man mano che passa il tempo, almeno per me, è quello che è rimasto, quelle briciole sul pavimento, che ti aiutano a continuare. Quelle modeste prove che ti aiutano a guarire, questa è l'idea che mi sono fatta.
~ Danny Wallace
You can't only think about endings," he said. "There's no point to that. Endings are something you and I will never understand.
~ Dara Horn
I thought of happy endings, how novelists usually flinched. To admit your characters are doomed means you are too.
~ Darcey Steinke
Celebrations] are the punctuation marks that make sense of the passage of time; without them, there are no beginnings and endings. Life becomes an endless series of Wednesdays.
~ James M. Kouzes
Historians become infinite speakers when they see that whatever begins in freedom cannot end in necessity.
~ James P. Carse
Closure is for jars, books, and closet doors.
~ James Sallis
Someone sobbed. Someone said, 'It is finished. Remember me no longer; or my children, or my children's children.'
~ Dorothy Dunnett
why doesn't anything end happily? Because, said Mrs. Pollifax slowly, there are no happy endings, Jenny, there are only happy people.
~ Dorothy Gilman
there are no happy endings, Jenny, there are only happy people.
~ Dorothy Gilman
The making of miracles to edification was as ardently admired by pious Victorians as it was sternly discouraged by Jesus of Nazareth. Not that the Victorians were unique in this respect. Modern writers also indulge in edifying miracles though they generally prefer to use them to procure unhappy endings, by which piece of thaumaturgy they win the title of realists.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
~ Dorothy Parker
Unhappy endings are just as important as happy endings. They're an efficient way of transmitting vital Darwinian information. Your brain needs them to make maps of the world, maps that let you know what sorts of people and situations to avoid.
~ Douglas Coupland
When he was gone I blocked his number and then deleted it from my phone. When I say good bye I mean it.
~ Alafair Burke
when at last they'd had to admit to themselves that they'd made all the love they could, had been a last meal. Like
~ Alan Furst
I'm hoping the prince prevailed and lived happily ever after.
~ Alan Russell
When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through.
~ Norah Jones
'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.
~ Jane Campion
I cannot believe that 'Pinocchio' is over yet, and I always think about so many great memories that I made while playing in the drama.
~ Park Shin-hye
She hated endings. But if things didn't end, where would all the amazing beginnings be?
~ Rachel Hauck
We all know that everything will end some day, but we can not let that slow us. We must not let that stop us from living.
~ Rachel Ward
All those who leave immigrate to better lives, but I wanted to better my death. Maybe it is the ending that matter, not the life, I thought. Maybe we, like elephants, walk towards our chosen burials.
~ Rawi Hage
Un dragón al que se le ve el final de la cola no es un dragón demasiado peligroso, y un tren de diez vagones puede pasarte por encima pero no puede estar pasándote por encima toda la vida.
~ Ray Loriga
I've read Flowers in the Attic and The Other Side of Midnight and Go Ask Alice and I don't want to read any more books where the girl dies in the end.
~ Rebecca Godfrey