Quotes About Endings

Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

her feelings could seldom withstand the melancholy influence of the word last.

Both trying to suppress the knowledge that hugs like this mean only one thing. GOODBYE.

In those days all stories ended with the wedding.

The thing about endings is, they can begin quietly enough. That's how they sneak up on you.

I had always studied French and was obsessed with French films. I hated the way American films always had happy endings. I liked the way French films had dark and unpleasant characters; it was much more realistic.

The Tamil audience is more receptive to unusual endings.

When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games I knew the winning method.

Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings.

In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire relationship and your willingness to reenter it.

Usually, I only get to work a few weeks on a movie, or I often don't make it to the end of the movie because I'm disposed of.

I love watching movies with happy endings or anything with Steve Martin or stuff like that.

When you really think about it, it doesn't really matter where a game ends. Ultimately, if the player is satisfied with stopping at a particular point, it doesn't matter if it's where the creator intended things to end or not... and so that's where the idea of having so many endings came about.

I can't remember how old I was, maybe 13, 14, and to see these fellows and hear their stories and to see life come to such a drab ending - my God, a poorhouse in those days was something. You would have to be inert not to respond to it.

We all hate those stories that end with 'And that's the story.'

I tend to write my beginnings and endings first - as a cartoonist and storyteller, I couldn't sit down every day if I didn't know where the story was headed.

And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want to know what the ending is.

Sometimes it would feel permanent, but he could be jerked back into Yoko's mind games very easily. Also, as our relationship began so strangely I suppose it would have had to end just as strange.

Endings don't have to be failures, especially when you choose to end a project or shut down a business. . . . Even the best gigs don't last forever. Nor should they.

That experience taught me to take agency in my own professional narratives, and that endings don't have to be failures, especially when you choose to end a project or shut down a business.

Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming to an end. Before we get it we live in a continuous present, and imagine the future as more of that present. Happiness is endless happiness, innocent of its own sure passing. Pain is endless pain.

Whatever it is that makes closeness possible between people also puts them in the way of hard feelings if that closeness ends.

Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.

We got offers to make sequels to both 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz,' and they never really interested us because we like having these endings where it seems very final but could hint at some kind of future adventure that you'll never see.