Endings Quotes
Frank Herbert
There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.
1810 Rose Tremain
In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.
2881 Alex De Campi
There's nothing on Earth like really nailing the last line of a big book. You have 200 pages to tickle their fancy, and seven words to break their heart.
1883 André Brink
To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my mind, except in my dreams, where the aftertaste of her still lingers.
1091 Pleasefindthis
I could’ve sworn I was telling the truth when I told you I didn’t miss you.
3637 Yevgeny Zamyatin
A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.
4804 John Green
I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.
4949 Stephen Chbosky
It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.
2777 C. JoyBell C.
No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!
2660 Munia Khan
A moment’s beginning ends in a moment
4918 C. JoyBell C.
Ends are not bad things, they just mean that something else is about to begin. And there are many things that don't really end, anyway, they just begin again in a new way. Ends are not bad and many ends aren't really an ending; some things are never-ending.
2354 Lailah Gity Akita
Do not wait until the near end of your life to realize that you have not fully live to love.
4249 Emily Giffin
Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adolescence and adulthood when everything feels raw and invigorating and scary-and why those feelings are all coming back to me now.
2029 Martha Gellhorn
What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.
1052 Mitch Albom
Every ending is a beginning. We just don't know it at the time.
3481 Matsuo Bashō
When a country is defeated, there remain only mountains and rivers, and on a ruined castle in spring only grasses thrive. I sat down on my hat and wept bitterly till I almost forgot time.
A thicket of summer grass
Is all that remains
Of the dreams and ambitions
Of ancient warriors.
4142 Rae Armantrout
The fear
that all this
will end.
The fear
that it won’t.
1888 Holly Goldberg Sloan
Only in cartoons and fairy tales and greeting cards do endings have glitter
2584 Brenda Perlin
Even though their marriage had been dead for over two years (her words, not mine), this put her in the role of the innocent. She was now a woman scorned. ~Shattered Reality
3176 Robin Hobb
Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.
3978 Lailah Gifty Akita
We must be conscious of this; one day, the life we have, will be gone.
3642 Jodi Picoult
The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.
2994 Peter Boody
Well, everything comes to an end, sooner or later," she said. "Everything begins and ends. Everything changes.
4186 Leon Brown
It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to has power over you.
1199 Neil Gaiman
Can't say I've ever been too fond of beginnings, myself. Messy little things. Give me a good ending anytime. You know where you are with an ending.
2920 J.R.R. Tolkien
Have you thought of an ending?"
"Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant."
"Oh, that won't do! Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?"
"It will do well, if it ever came to that."
"Ah! And where will they live? That's what I often wonder.
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