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Quotes About Endings

I just keep practicing saying goodbye to you
~ Tite Kubo
All good things must come to an end,' said Flosshilde, 'and I don't suppose he'll ever be interested in me even if he does get rid of her. Which is funny, really,' she said bitterly. 'After all, he's nothing special and I am, Heaven knows. But there you are.
~ Tom Holt
It's an Irish story, love, Mrs. Wylltson said. We don't do happy endings.
~ Kersten Hamilton
All good things must someday end. Fortunately, this is also true of bad things.
~ Kim Gruenenfelder
Good things come to an end, bad things have to be stopped.
~ Kim Newman
There should be fireworks at last, when a dream dies.
~ Kirby Larson
This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed. Nerve endings; he'd said they were the problem [causing phantom pain in the amputated limb]." Things that cut off, that ended abruptly or died--like parents and marriages--kept hurting forever.
~ Kristin Hannah
Because everything that begins must end. What causes us to suffer is not in the past or the future: it is here, now, in our memory, in our expectations. We long for timelessness, we endure the passing of time: we suffer time. Time is suffering.
~ Carlo Rovelli
It's suffering because we must lose what we have and are attached to. Because everything that begins must end. What causes us to suffer is not in the past or the future: it is here, now, in our memory, in our expectations. We long for timelessness, we endure the passing of time: we suffer time. Time is suffering.
~ Carlo Rovelli
Si aquella noche —pensaba yo— se hubiera acabado el mundo o se hubiera muerto uno de ellos, su historia hubiera quedado completamente cerrada y bella como un círculo.» Así suele suceder en las novelas, en las películas, pero no en la vida... Me estaba dando cuenta yo, por primera vez, de que todo sigue, se hace gris, se arruina viviendo. De que no hay final en nuestra historia hasta que llega la muerte y el cuerpo se deshace...
~ Carmen Laforet
Cuando una cosa no sabemos cuándo ni por qué ha terminado, cuando nos parece que ha quedado incompleta, ese ha sido su verdadero fin.
~ Carmen Martín Gaite
Where to start is the problem, because nothing begins when it begins and nothing's over when it's over, and everything needs a preface:
~ Carole Radziwill
And when a girl likes talking about you more than talking to you, well, in my experience, that's the end.
~ Caroline Kepnes
I know that no one would live outThirty years, fifty years if the world were endingWith his life.
~ George Oppen
Io ho finito con i baci" - Jon Snow
~ George R.R. Martin
I don't see her anymore. We don't even go through the motions. Ozren had been right about one thing: some stories just don't have happy endings.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Never think you've seen the last of anything.
~ Eudora Welty
How do you know that? You couldn't have finished the book." "I skipped to the end." "You…" He closed his eyes as he drank more wine. "Some things are unforgivable
~ J.D. Robb
Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful.
~ J.R. Ward
And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.
~ Jack Kerouac
It's weird because we live in this age of reboots. Everything is getting rebooted: 'The X-Files,' 'Twin Peaks.' We have shows like 'Gravity Falls' that were inspired by these shows, that are now ending and being followed up by reboots of the shows that inspired them.
~ Alex Hirsch
I was reading stories by Raymond Carver and some of his stuff sort of ended abruptly here and there, where in other short stories that I've read have a bit of an ending, a climax, a twist or something like that.
~ Limmy
My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I like all of the early relationship strips that were collected in 'Love Is Hell,' where I pretended to be an expert in relationships and did comics like 'The Nine Types of Boyfriends,' 'Sixteen Ways to End a Relationship,' 'Twenty-Four Things Not to Say in Bed,' and other arbitrarily numbered lists.
~ Matt Groening