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Quotes About Endings

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.
~ Jeffery Deaver
Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don't know why, and if we do find out why, it's decades later and knowing why doesn't matter any more.
~ Douglas Coupland
It all ends in tears anyway.
~ Jack Kerouac
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I believe the day is done. Whether it's been the best day or the worst, it's over; let it go.
~ Mary Fairfax
Just forget me... No reason. When it ends, it ends.
~ Takeshi Kaneshiro
Life wasn't all neat and tidy. Along with joy and happiness, there were bitter disappointments and heart-rending loose ends.
~ Tamera Alexander
Su muerte fue como la de un grillo cuando llega el invierno y apaga su último canto».
~ Tamiki Hara
That's what I love about death on 'Game of Thrones.' Nobody has dying speeches. Nobody has anything like that. Once you're gone, you're gone.
~ Michael McElhatton
Endings are scary and foreign. They split you up emotionally and put you in a place where you don't know what's going to happen next. But with every end of the world, there is a new world that follows.
~ Alex Hirsch
He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.
~ Alice Hoffman
Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
~ Pat Conroy
That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
~ John Updike
Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
~ Helen Rowland
I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.
~ Margaret Mead
In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.
~ Jane Hamilton
Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.
~ Denise Richards
A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
We're like meridians, all beginning and ending in the same place. We spread out from the beginning and go our separate ways, over seas and mountains and islands and deserts, each telling our own story, as different as they could possibly be. But in the end we all converge and our ends are as much the same as our beginnings.
~ Neal Stephenson
The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over. Those two elements always go together.
~ Nicholas Sparks
It isn't. The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over. These two elements always go together.
~ Nicholas Sparks
And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever.
~ Nicholas Sparks
The reason my games are chaotic is that the world is chaotic, not me. I don't aim for bad endings - they just naturally come out.
~ Yoko Taro