Quotes About Endings

Ci sono luoghi dove gli uomini vanno a nascere, altri dove si nascondono, altri dove fanno l'amore. La sua era una casa dove si andava a morire.

Life, the dramatist of speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and symbols and clues, its wretched jokes and false endings and twists. Life with its hopeless addiction to plot.

Don't bother looking for the meaning of it all. There isn't one. Maybe not, but life compulsively dangled the possibility. Life, the dramatist on speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and symbols and clues, its wretched jokes and false endings and twists. Life with its hopeless addiction to plot.

Most of all, I love graduations. They are individual and communal, an end and a beginning, more permanent than weddings, more inclusive than religions, and possibly the most moving ceremonies on earth.

Fires all go out eventually.

History is but a collection of epitaphs.

I try to have reasonable happy endings because I would hate any child to be cast down in gloom and despair, I want to show them you can find a way out of it.

I didn't want to let go. I didn't want that moment to end and I didn't want that feeling to ever leave me. But all things leave us, all people, all feelings, no matter how we want them to stay, no matter how tight we hold on to them. We lose everything in life at some point.

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.

As a writer, I try to appeal to the 'elusive boy audience' the same way I try to appeal to everyone: I do the very best I can to create interesting characters, addictive plots, tons of conflict, believable settings, unexpected plot twists, intriguing beginnings, and satisfying endings.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.

All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.

Our lives are our mythic journeys, and our happy endings are still to be won.

First loves seldom end up being last loves,

People you care about leaving you with hurtful goodbyes are more likely to be a means to an end, but not the end themselves.

I never know what I'm going to write next. If I'm still writing the book but I'm very near the end, and I begin to think of what I'd like to do next, then I'll know that what I'm writing is in hand. I'll think of an ending and it will be fine.

The metro section of the newspaper every day is full of stuff I can use. It's the greatest inspiration for me because it's full of endings. That's where the ends of stories show up.

In my newspaper days, your endings could be literally sliced off in the composing room, so it was dangerous to get attached to them. Yet I think this has made me work harder on endings in fiction.

I have shot four films for sure. On most days, I wish that there were 48 hours in a day. When a movie is coming to an end and another is going to start, I've felt that I don't want to let go of this one just yet and say goodbye to the character nicely.

The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when its over-- Adrienne Willis, Nights in Rodanthe

The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you.

The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you. He

I was afraid because I didn't want to lose her, and we always lose someone, or they lose us, in the end.