Quotes About Endings

TUESDAY, 30 DECEMBER

Endings are the most important part of stories. They grow inevitably from the stories themselves.

THE PATHS OF DEATH

Ring the bell, close the book, quench the candle

If it's not working out, I'm a fan of divorce.

Most people remember the ending of the book more than the beginning and the middle.

Listen, if there's anything we need more of in this world, it's something that has a better ending or is more positive.

Business, much like life, is not a movie, and not everyone gets to have a storybook ending.

No one ever gets to write their ending, write their final script.

I prefer the European films that are like, 'No, it's over! They both die. The End.'

I don't believe in 'happy ever after' at all as a concept.

My family history begins with me, but yours ends with you.

Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars.

Some foolish people must have a tragedy, for they cannot believe in happy endings

Rather than searching for ways around death and disappointment, the queer art of failure involves the acceptance of the finite, the embrace, of the absurd, the silly, and the hopelessly goofy. Rather than resisting endings and limits, let us instead revel in and cleave to all of our own inevitable fantastic failures" (The Queer Art of Failure, "Ending, Fleeing, Surviving").

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

She was tired of sad modern endings. She was tired of modern sadness and ennui. She narrated things calmly and swiftly like and easy-running stream

The best endings don't leave us happy. Instead, they produce something richer—a rush of unexpected insight, a fleeting moment of transcendence, the possibility that by discarding what we wanted we've gotten what we need.

I used to believe in the value of happy endings. Now I believe that the power of endings rests not in their unmitigated sunniness but in their poignancy and meaning.

I always like things to be as complicated as possible. I don't like an easy ending. I don't like when all the pieces get tied up. As a viewer who loves stories and storytelling, that annoys me.

You think about these words final last never a lot, and there are not many things, when you come right down to it, that you'll be happy to see the end of.

Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another. — Marianne Williamson

How long would it be before the elements toppled these small structures as they had already toppled the broch and the castle? Would future archaeologists dig here, or had records grown so precise every aspect of the recent past would be charted and ready for those who wanted to know? Maybe, soon enough, there would be no one left, no world to chronicle and argue over. All things must end, why not this too? The thought almost had the power to cheer him.