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Quotes About Endings

Ice is for death and endings.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
Endings are always tough, but I believe when something ends, there are new beginnings, new opportunities and new things to be excited for, too.
~ Mike Fisher
Endings are the toughest, harder than beginnings. They must satisfy the expectations you have hopefully generated in your reader - not frustrate them, leave the reader grasping at elusive strings.
~ Jeffrey Thomas
Don't trust the beginnings, truth is told in the last moments.
~ Ahlam Mosteghanemi
We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.
~ Sherman Alexie
The art of dying is the art of living. The honesty and grace of the years of life that are ending is the real measure of how we die. It is not in the last weeks or days that we compose the message that will be remembered, but in all the decades that proceeded them. Who has lived in dignity, dies in dignity.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
Even love comes with its own season.. and relationships with their own kismets.They start through us, and then love loves through us. And when the give-and-take between two individuals is over, the relationship fades. Like a fruit that must fall from the bough if it is to carry its life into its next avatar. There is nothing more critical than to exercise the generosity to let something end with the grace it started with.
~ Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
There is nothing more critical than to exercise the generosity to let something end with the grace it started with.
~ Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
We have to admit that the endings we imagine and hope for are only suggestions. Sometimes, when it is kind to us, which is rare, life adopts them. Or life's own endings resemble or are identical to the ones we imagine, and then we are overjoyed. But our endings do not belong to us.
~ Sinan Antoon
Death cancels all engagements.
~ Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.
~ Jack Kerouac
The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.
~ Francis Thompson
Oh god Let all lovers be content Give them happy endings Let their lives be celebrations Let their hearts dance in the fire of your love
~ Rumi
I love a happy ending. They are so rare.
~ Stephenie Meyer
The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.
~ Kristin Hannah
You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends.
~ Sarah Dessen
When this week was over, everything was over, so the party had to rage on as intensely and as long as possible.
~ Maureen Johnson
Racetracks close at the end of the day. Once in a great while, a stock market venture of yours might end when a company in which you've invested is absorbed by a bigger company and passes out of existence. But most of the time you will be required to call your own endings.
~ Max Gunther
Late October Carefully the leaves of autumn sprinkle down the tinny sound of little dyings and skies sated of ruddy sunsets of roseate dawns roil ceaselessly in cobweb greys and turn to black for comfort. Only lovers see the fall a signal end to endings a gruffish gesture alerting those who will not be alarmed that we begin to stop in order to begin again.
~ Maya Angelou
That's the problem with your generation, Amelia. You all want happy endings." I was so stunned I think my eye stopped twitching momentarily. "We don't, actually," I said. "We want endings that leave us with a sense of hope, possibly because the world we're living in seems to be falling apart right now.
~ Meg Cabot
Beautiful girls who love too much, as Lindsay appeared to have done, often meet unpleasant ends.
~ Meg Cabot
And so I'll let you go, and let it be. Whatever
~ Megan McCafferty
All the things man has made are eventually destroyed.
~ Megan Whalen Turner