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Quotes About Endings

I don't like DVD extras. No. Especially when they do things like put out alternative endings? I find all of that a little bizarre, because there should only be one ending. I don't like to be told, 'Oh, we could have had it this way,' for the director's cut.
~ Aidan Gillen
Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
~ Anita Brookner
It eventually ends, and that's what I think a lot of athletes forget. It's 10 years after the Olympics, and you won the Olympics, and that's great, but no one cares.
~ Max Aaron
I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.
~ Oscar Wilde
It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.
~ Oscar Wilde
Are you very much in love with him?' he asked. She did not answer for some time, but stood gazing at the landscape. 'I wish I knew' she said at last. He shook his head. -'Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.All ways end at the same point, my dear Gladys.' --'What is that?' -'Disillusion.
~ Oscar Wilde
Quem põe ponto final numa paixão com o ódio, ou ainda ama, ou não consegue deixar de sofrer.
~ Ovid
THE END. REALLY.
~ P.C. Cast
What was it to love someone, what was love exactly, and why did it end or not end? Those were the real questions, and who could answer them.
~ Patricia Highsmith
Clemens laughed until he began coughing again. "Don't you see, James?" he said at last. "You and I are only minor characters in this story about the Great Detective. Our little lives and endings mean nothing to the God-Writer, whoever the sonofabitch might be.
~ Dan Simmons
God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease.
~ Bernie Siegel
I believe in true love, and I believe in happy endings. And I believe.
~ Christie Brinkley
Ending a relationship always involves walking away from positive aspects of the other person. If it was all awful, breaking up would be easy.
~ Shannon Thomas
If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.
~ Sarah Dessen
It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.
~ David O. Russell
The thing about leaving something behind for the last time is that you rarely realize you're doing it.
~ Wendy Mass
We are come not only past the century's closing, he thought, the millennium's turning, but to the end of something else. Era? Paradigm? Everywhere, the signs of closure.
~ William Gibson
One thing you know when you're ten is that no matter what, there's gonna be a happy ending. They can sweat all they want, the authors, but back of it all you know, you just have no doubt, that in the long run justice is going to win out.
~ William Goldman
These windings up of unfinished years continue till the unfinished life winds up.
~ William James
These felt very much like last moments.
~ China Mieville
When the hour had come for the war to take him away, that had been the first and last moment she had known without doubt that she loved him. One knew how one felt only when things ended. And
~ Chris Cleave
I am ninety-one years old, and almost everyone who was once in my life is now a ghost. Sometimes these
~ Christina Baker Kline
It's the fate of many propositions," Terry said, "to begin as heresies and end as truths. I read that somewhere, anyway.
~ Christopher Buckley
When I was an undergraduate we were told that history had ended, and we all believed it. When the Berlin Wall fell, what history was made of was over. No more Cold War. No more wars. And yet here it was, and is and all of it falling apart. Endings. Worlds dissolving. Weather systems, baking systems, the careful plans of municipal gardeners. Families, hearts, lives.
~ Helen Macdonald