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Quotes About Endings

There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. Here is one.
~ Hilary Mantel
It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.
~ Hobbes
There's always something left to lose.
~ Holly Black
There is always something left to lose.
~ Holly Black
Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief.
~ Liane Moriarty
Just because a marriage ended didn't mean that it hadn't been happy at times.
~ Liane Moriarty
Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief. "Would you like a cup of tea?" John-Paul stood
~ Liane Moriarty
It was nice to hold on to the memories of those fierce, desperate hugs when the hugging stopped.
~ Liane Moriarty
Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief. "Would
~ Liane Moriarty
Sometimes solutions aren't so simple; sometimes goodbye's the only way.
~ Unknown
The journey back through the house, like all return journeys, felt shorter and less convoluted; the sense of knowing how long the tunnels were and where they ended up was reassuring
~ Lisa Jewell
Sometimes silence was easiest, when the only word left was good-bye.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I very much use Bill Willingham's approach on 'Fables,' which is that rather than having an end point to a series, I have an end point for the various story lines.
~ Chris Roberson
I usually have a general idea of where the story is going, but I try to avoid planning in too much detail. The best endings are those that emerge only after I've thought long and hard about the various ways the story might end. Then I choose the ending that seems surprising yet somehow inevitable.
~ Karl Iagnemma
coffin nails. Once Stan had left for
~ Jeffrey Archer
It's smart to end relationships that are poisonous. It's a good thing. Sometimes you have to cut people out of your life to make things better. So you can move forward
~ Jessica Park
One way to be aware of it, to teach to yourself, is simply to read work aloud. I love reading the endings of books aloud when I start nearing the end.
~ Unknown
Very often with an American movie, the end is very happy and you just feel good when you go out. When you go to a French movie, it's kind of like, oh!, and you can't go out; you're stuck in your chair. It goes so deeply inside of the heart.
~ Emmanuelle Beart
I live in constant anticipation of good stuff. It's not being 'Pollyanna' about things, but most stories don't have the ending we would give them right away. The better endings come later.
~ Bob Goff
I feel like if you really know the ending right from the beginning, you can add so many subtleties and little things later that will pay off and be more consistent and more rewarding for the reader.
~ Jeff Lemire
To experience something for the last time can be more intense than it was the first.
~ Unknown
No it ain't nothing left to say. —Oddisee, "Tomorrow Today
~ Uzodinma Iweala
The Chinese say that love is balance. He is the water to my fire.The chimpanzee to my bonobo. And when I am mired in life's ugliness, when I can see only what's decaying both inside and outside my own head, he is the blindness I need, the mindless faith in happy endings.
~ Unknown
It is an edged cliché that the world is most pleasant in the years of a Waning Sun. It is true that the weather is not so driven, that everywhere there is a sense of slowing down, and most places experience a few years where the summers do not burn and the winters are not yet overly fierce. It is the classic time of romance. It's a time that seductively beckons higher creatures to relax, postpone. It's the last chance to prepare for the end of the world.
~ Vernor Vinge