Quotes About Endings

He walked to the window, leaning heavily on the sill. "If this is to end, you will have to do it. You will have to walk away, Francesca. Because now . . . after everything . . . I'm just not strong enough to say goodbye.

It's definitely intense to walk away from at the end of each season.

And besides, when a story ended, audiences wanted a fixed place—a forever—seduced and abandoned or happily ever after, not off into the night juggling oranges

I just hope he went someplace where he could find a little peace... somewhere between nowhere and goodbye...

nobody was ever really ready to turn off their mother's machine, no matter what they thought; to turn off the light of their childhood and walk away, just as if they were turning out a light and leaving a room.

Après trois ans, un couple doit se quitter, se suicider, ou faire des enfants, ce qui sont trois façons d'entériner sa fin.

True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.

Worlds ended sometimes.

Well, if you are to help me with my work, you had better get used to stories without endings. True stories seldom have endings.

Predosje?am da nešto završava, ali još ne znam što je to. Ili možda znam, a ne usu?ujem se to prepoznati.

I have read the last page of the Bible. It is all going to turn out all right.

The end of all things--a book, a life, a summer, a marriage, the last bite of cake, the last of innocence lost, a love affair--is always sad, at least a little bit sad, because it is the end, the end of that.

But there are no happy endings unless we cut the story short, and as far as I know, there are no rules of etiquette to a miracle, either.

beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living.

Sie glaube, sagte Naomi sinngemäß, dass ihre Mutter, als sie von dem Turm sprang, das eigene Leben so schnell und doch würdig beendet habe, wie man ein Buch ohne richtige Handlung irgendwann zuklappt, statt es sklavisch zu Ende zu lesen.

It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories.

We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel.

Quali che siano le lacrime che si piangono, alla fine si finisce sempre per soffiarsi il naso

Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love.

I think that's what distinguishes YA from adult fiction - it's not just the age of the characters, but it's the sense of hope. Because I don't think I've ever read a YA book that feels completely hopeless at the end.

Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

Making people laugh is so much more difficult than making them sad. Too much fiction defaults to the somber, the tragic. This is because sad endings are easy in comparison - happy endings aren't at all simple to earn, especially when writing to an audience jaded by them.

In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.