Top 100 Ending Quotes
#1. The summer was ending, and soon we'd be faced with cold. And worry.
Kiera Cass
#2. Many of the scientists have believed that their contribution to ending the nuclear race is not to let any new weapons to be developed.
Henry A. Kissinger
#3. States should have the right to enact laws ... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
George W. Bush
#4. I didn't want someone saying it was going to be okay. See, that's the worst thing you can do to a girl. Say it's going to be okay when she knows it's not, when she's knows that the only real ending to the story is heartache.
Rachel Van Dyken
#5. The crowd and its team had finally understood that in games, as in many things, the ending, the final score, is only part of what matters. The process, the pleasure, the grain of the game count too.
Thomas Boswell
#6. It's not fair."
"It's not. But then, that's the game. It makes life great. The fact that it ends when we don't want it to. The ending gives it meaning.
Marisha Pessl
#7. The most important doctrine I can declare, and the most powerful testimony I can bear, is of the atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. His atonement is the most transcendent event that ever has or ever will occur from Creation's dawn through all the ages of a never-ending eternity.
Bruce R. McConkie
#8. What i realise now is that the story actually did have a happy ending: the children came back. In spite of everything the adults did to them, the children found their own way home, their pockets full of precious stones and pearls that gleamed and shone in the light.
Julia Green
#9. I think one has to say it's not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems, ending states who sponsor terrorism. And that's why it has to be a broad and sustained campaign.
Paul Wolfowitz
#10. But if you don't take the chance to read the story, how will you know if you get what you want? Pickup that book and let me create your fairytale ending." "Talen,
Milly Taiden
#11. I don't think I heard the same ending you did. Maybe you should tell it again.
Elle Lothlorien
#12. Struggling alone, like the everyday and ending with the same fate.
M.F. Moonzajer
#13. The mutual distrust between the men who were just awakened and those who were ending a long night gave everyone a feeling of estrangement.
Carson McCullers
#14. Maybe it wasn't about the happy ending you and I didn't get, but the memories instead.
B.A. Wolfe
#15. It was said that Mrs. Campusky's ovaries were like popcorn poppers and the desert heat kept her puffing up with a never-ending pregnancy.
Douglas Clegg
#16. The crickets sang in the grasses. They sang the song of summer's ending, a sad monotonous song. "Summer is over and gone, over and gone, over and gone. Summer is dying, dying." A little maple tree heard the cricket song and turned bright red with anxiety.
E.B. White
#17. Sometimes communicating feels like a never ending maze. You know what you want to say, but you can't choose the right words. Then you go around and around trying to find them. Most of the time you just give up.
Tina J. Richardson
#19. The Goddess teaches us that every ending is also a beginning. May there be rebirth from this death.
Cate Tiernan
#20. Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying.
Sonya Hartnett
#21. All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.
James Clavell
#22. It seems to me, that no matter what we do, no matter what choices we make, there isn't a happy ending waiting for us at the end of the long road."
"But that doesn't mean we give up. It doesn't mean we stop fighting.
Danielle L. Jensen
#23. Last, but not least
in fact, this is most important
you need a happy ending. However, if you can create tragic situations and jerk a few tears before the happy ending, it will work much better.
Satyajit Ray
#24. Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There's no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending.
Jeanette Winterson
#25. The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It's one of the never-ending cycles in life.
Masashi Kishimoto
#26. Life isn't a book. There's no guarantee of a happy ending.
Kristin Cast
#27. More like an anaconda than a fuzzy blanket, pride continues to tighten its death grip, eventually choking out all humility and ending in our complete consumption with self.
Anonymous
#28. She looked around at the close confines of the NCD offices. They were cramped and untidy. No. They were worse than that. They had gone through cramped and untidy, paused briefly at small and shabby before ending up at pokey and damp.
Jasper Fforde
#30. Drug culture is extremely prevalent and probably most people know somebody whose life has been affected by drugs, if it's not their own or in their own family, they have friends. It's a never-ending process.
Macklemore
#31. I thought I'd make them understand, with rhetoric, with everything I had learned. I didn't realize I was ending it all, that it would really be that easy for me to vanish from the family.
Catherine Lacey
#32. Perhaps we can win, he thought. But there will be no happy ending
Eoin Colfer
#33. No matter how interminable something feels, there is always, always an ending. Sometimes that's good, and sometimes it's bad; sometimes it's a matter of indifference, and sometimes it's heartbreaking, and your life is never the same thereafter.
Ann Aguirre
#34. In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator.
Fulton Oursler
#35. It was ending too soon, the way everything did, everything except Ebola viruses and really bad people like psychopaths. Those things never ended.
Lev Grossman
#36. We all want to have a happy ending. A lot of times in life, sometimes you do and sometimes it feels like you don't. But you could argue if it is not a happy ending yet, maybe you are just in the middle of your story.
Camron Wright
#37. We bowed our heads together, and I prayed and then Nimmie prayed. Hers was a beautiful, simple prayer, beginning in faith and repentance and ending with joy and praise.
Janette Oke
#38. In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.
Don DeLillo
#39. Do you think we can just take it on faith right now that I want you, you want me, and we'll figure out the happy ending part later?
Katie McGarry
#40. One of us ...
One of them ...
One of us ...
One of them ...
A rhythm playing like train wheels on a circular track
never ending but going nowhere.
Malorie Blackman
#41. The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices.
Daniel M. Gilbert
#42. See the interlaced strands?' She touched the raised pattern with a knobby finger. 'These trace a never-ending path, leading away from home and circling back. When you wear this, you'll never be far from the place you started.
Christina Baker Kline
#43. If you can see a world within a portrait I would be happy with that. I don't want to tell the story with a painting, though. I'm trying to get away from the story- from the beginning and the ending.
Danny Fox
#44. Redeeming culture is the never ending mission of the church.
Charles Colson
#45. She doesn't know I cry for the changing times. That just as I reread favourite books, some small part of me hoping for a different ending, I find myself hoping against hope that the war will never come. That this time, somehow, it will leave us be.
Kate Morton
#46. Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#47. Ending a sentence with yo, is like saying, I don't want a job. Not today. Not ever. Know what I mean yo?
Dov Davidoff
#48. We have to accept that making movies is a never-ending process of occasional progress, frequent setbacks, and unexpected curveballs being thrown our way. Navigating that process requires stamina, curiosity, openness, and creative fire.
Karyn Kusama
#49. There was no romantic ending for Charlotte, but that's where writing your own novel can be so useful.
Catherine Lowell
#50. As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable ... more common, undignified and worthless than any other game, rarely ending but with some loss, accident or disadvantage to the players themselves'. This is football.
Ian Mortimer
#51. I have made the best and happiest ending that I can in this world, made it out of the flax and netting and leftover trim of someone else's life, I know, but made it to keep the innocent safe and the guilty punished, and I have made it as the world should be and not as I have found it.
Amy Bloom
#52. Clem rubbed at her face with her cuff and gave a quick, rueful smile. 'It's just so sad. It's the umpteenth time I've read it, and I will always think it will have a different ending. But it never does.
Anna Hope
#53. I love you, Essie. Before you came into my life, I had considered ending myself. Three hundred years is a long time to be alone. You've given me hope, a career as a drag queen and a dysfunctional family. I am supremely grateful. Bite me." And
Robyn Peterman
#54. Yep. Nineteen years of trying to be everything to everyone and ending up as no one to myself.
Leisa Rayven
#55. A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
Federico Fellini
#56. Many times, a child's struggle against hunger begins before he or she is born because the mother is undernourished. Making sure prenatal care and proper nutrition are available for expectant mothers in need is a critical part of ending childhood hunger.
Hector Elizondo
#57. Maybe you shouldn't blame anyone, but accept that this is your sister's story, and the ending belongs to her.
Adriana Trigiani
#58. When you fall; it's not the ending; It's the next chance to perform better than the last one
Harishankar Kaushik
#60. When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the house and thought, soon I will no longer have to see these walls and all the unhappiness they keep inside.
Amy Tan
#61. To conceive of a god in one's image is already quite a feat for inflated egos. To imagine, however, that this likeness has chosen your generation amongst the thousands for ending the party is to bring the egocentrism to new heights.
Anthony Marais
#62. When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.
S.E. Hinton
#63. Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.
Federico Fellini
#64. A lot of people say colonialism was 'evil' or whatever, but what have they really done with Africa since we gave it back to them? I don't think it should be considered 'racist' to admit maybe ending apartheid did more harm than good in South Africa.
Zach Braff
#65. I just knew. There was no movie ending. There was only an ending.
Alex Flinn
#66. I love the way a story's ending can force you to read backwards. It's as if you are slowly adjusting a kaleidoscope until a random scattering of colored crystals suddenly falls into a beautiful symmetrical pattern.
Catherine Brady
#67. It didn't and doesn't turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with a predilection for despair. The world is, after all, a coarse and brutal and cruel place. It's only a matter of how long you can live with it.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#68. When I imagine changing places with her I get the feeling I do on finishing a novel with a brick-wall happy ending
I mean the kind of ending when you never think any more about the characters.
Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle
#69. There is no plateau of resting or stabilising. Once you are interested in how things evolve, you have a kind of never-ending perspective, because it means you are interested in articulating the evolution, and therefore the potential change, the potential redefinition.
Rem Koolhaas
#70. There's a built-in ending to everything in the world, right?
Jennifer Niven
#71. Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.
Robert W. Service
#72. But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?
Shannon Hale
#73. 'Not Another Happy Ending' is a romantic comedy starring Karen Gillan and Stanley Weber. It is about these two characters and their relationships.
Henry Ian Cusick
#74. The real shame about the ending of the Guns N' Roses when I got kicked out wasn't just that I got kicked out, but Slash and Axl stopped working together.
Steven Adler
#75. It's a never ending dream for everyone it seems, to find again what was once precious and has been lost.
Carolyn Turgeon
#77. The Winter Solstice is the time of ending and beginning, a powerful time
a time to contemplate your immortality. A time to forgive, to be forgiven, and to make a fresh start. A time to awaken.
Frederick Lenz
#78. Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going through failing relationships, ending them, and confronting issues of custody and support.
Laura Wasser
#79. Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.
John Hodgman
#80. When every memory has been made and the pages start to fade. And every prayer you ever prayed is heaven bound. When you think the ride is over, you're back at the beginning. Love is never-ending.
Brad Paisley
#81. I always know more about the ending, even the aftermath to the ending, than I know about the beginning. And so there's a construction that works from back to front.
John Irving
#82. Today's word was interminable, meaning never-ending. Like his loneliness. Like the love he felt for Kate. Like the awful hurt that wouldn't go away.
Margaret Brownley
#83. I keep going to a lot of places and ending up somewhere I've already been
Matthew Weiner
#84. The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#85. Ana was a perpetual victim in a never-ending search for a victimizer.
Travis Luedke
#86. Such growth will move humans into ever-higher energy states, ultimately transforming our bodies into spiritual form and uniting this dimension of existence with the afterlife dimension, ending the cycle of birth and death.
James Redfield
#87. What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.
William Shakespeare
#88. When you have strong chemistry with your own characters, and the ending is coming soon, it feels like a beautiful farewell. You don't want to leave them. You just want to keep it that way. You just want to pause that last moment forever. I do.
Alvi Syahrin
#89. A complete life may be one ending in so full identification with the non-self that there is no self to die.
Bernard Berenson
#90. My head is in a world of hurt. My apartment is trashed. At the end of today, I could either be dating the girl who saves my family's future or is going to be the ending of it. When did life get so damn complicated?
Pella Grace
#91. The world isn't ending. You are just experiencing turbulence. The plane is safe. The pilot is good. You're in the right seat of life. You just hit a patch of bumpy air. Wait. It will pass.
Regina Brett
#92. How close is the ending, well, nobody knows.
The future's a mystery, and anything goes.
Love is confusing, and life is hard.
But you fight to survive, 'cause you've made it this far.
Adam Young
#94. The very conception of such a completion of the task of science is a contradction in terms. The quest of science is, therefore, by its nature a never-ending task in which every step ahead with necessity creates new problems.
Friedrich A. Hayek
#95. And suddenly it's very clear to her that every action is an interaction, and everything she has ever done has led to something else, and to another something else, and all of that is ending here, at the bottom of the hill by Highway 34, and she is dying.
Amy Zhang
#96. Peace is a never ending process ... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.
Oscar Arias Sanchez
#97. My grandmother is one of the biggest inspirations of my life. She was my biggest fan, and she made sure everybody knew it. Her never-ending joy was infectious, and there wasn't anyone who could beat her at partying and having fun.
Roberto Aguire
#98. You cannot have a happy ending to an unhappy journey.
Abraham Hicks
#100. Let's face it: Sadness and evil are always more believable than happiness and love. When a movie reviewer calls a film "realistic," everyone knows what that means
it means the movie has an unhappy ending.
Chuck Klosterman