Quotes About Endings

Don't people always feel better just before the end?

Some reviewers call my stories dark - and yes, there is violence and angst, and the stakes are high - but I like to think that the endings are satisfying and hopeful.

I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pilgrim' is sort of one long novel, and it's so long that I get confused and sort of tread water sometimes. But there's definitely a goal to it. People who just dismiss it as shallow, that's their prerogative, but it's not really my intent.

It ends all things: birds, trees, flowers, mountain tops, and business; it grinds stones to sand, and as terrible as it is, and it's the most beautiful thing we have in our lives - time.

The most-asked question when someone describes a novel, movie or short story to a friend probably is, 'How does it end?' Endings carry tremendous weight with readers; if they don't like the ending, chances are they'll say they didn't like the work. Failed endings are also the most common problems editors have with submitted works.

This getting old is something. I think I envy my dog, because my dog is sixteen, and she's limping, and she's still living, but she doesn't look at me like she knows. She's not thinking what I'm thinking. It's a cruel trick that we all know the ending.

This is how stories end, with all these leftover characters, nothing left for them to do.

They say men fall three times. First is calf love. Second is the one you marry. John And third? Jane Third. . . Third is your deathbed bride

The meanings of life aren't inherited. What is inherited is the mandate to make meanings of life by how we live. The endings of life give life's meanings a chance to show. The beginning of the end of our order, our way, is now in view. This isn't punishment, any more than dying is a punishment for being born.

And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

I am a caster of nets. Tyrants and emperors rise and fall. Civilizations burgeon then die, but there are always casters of nets. And tillers of the soil, and herders in the pastures. We are where civilization begins, and when it ends, we are there to begin it again.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

I loved playing Jackie on 'Happy Endings.' It was really exciting to be in the pilot and then be able to come back. Her character was so much fun!

The termites of reduction have always gnawed away at life: even the greatest love ends up as a skeleton of feeble memories.

Wondering why we bother with love, if it never lasts.

Love tends to end in a very painful goodbye.

Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for.

Love does not always begin or end the way we wish it would.

To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: 'That's the end of that.

All the things I've thought about love are true. It's beautiful and terrible and it doesn't make things perfect. It ends things, and it brings beginnings. This is mine.

Let us clear a little space, And make Love a burial-place. He is dead, dear, as you see, And he wearies you and me.

Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up.

If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.

First love never dies, but True love can bury them alive.