Quotes About Endings

I always want my books to reach a positive point in the end.

God never ends anything on a negative God always ends on a positive.

Truth is, moments come to an end. That's how memories are created.

The best course was to buy a house across a road from a cemetery and look at it every morning. Reminding yourself where it all ended anyway you'd never get upset about anything again.

And if the book is too silly, I find that it's often because the writer doesn't really have anything to say - or there are no values. Or because the whole book is just a lead-up to a trick at the end. If you read the end first, you may have much less patience for wasting time with that kind of book. Even a well-written book can be silly and a waste of time.

The single biggest reason organizational changes fail is because no one has thought about endings or planned to manage their impact on people. Naturally concerned about the future, planners and implementers all too often forget that people have to let go of the present first. They forget that while the first task of change management is to understand the desired outcome and how to get there, the first task of transition management is to convince people to leave home.

change and endings go hand in hand: change causes transition, and transition starts with an ending. If things change within an organization, at least some of the employees and managers are going to have to let go of something

When endings take place, people get angry, sad, frightened, depressed, and confused. These emotional states can be mistaken for bad morale, but they aren't. They are the signs of grieving, the natural sequence of emotions people go through when they lose something that matters to them.

Don't just talk about the endings—create actions or activities that dramatize them.

Endings occur more easily if people can take a bit of the past with them. You are trying to disengage people from it, not stamp it out like an infection. And in particular, you don't want to make people feel blamed for having been part of it.

Yesterday's ending launched today's success, and today will have to end if tomorrow's changes are to take place. Endings are not comfortable for any of us. But they are also neither unprecedented breaks with the past nor attempts by those in power to make people's lives miserable.

Yesterday's ending launched today's success, and today will have to end if tomorrow's changes are to take place.

Beginnings establish once and for all that an ending was real.

A corollary to this idea is that the past, which people are likely to idealize during an ending

Loose ends are only tied up in books.

It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.

Maybe I don't have enough beginnings in my life because I fought against the endings that were about to birth those beginnings.

Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.

Something special is ending, and you're sad, but you can't be that said because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there'll be other vacations, other good times.

Why did everything feel like saying good-bye?

All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.

Linus: Nothing goes on forever. All good things must come to an end... Charlie: When do the good things start?

All good things come to an end. All bad things go on forever.

Even the worst days have an ending, and the best days have a beginning.