Ending Something Quotes

#1. Failing well means ending something that is not working and choosing to do something else better.

Henry Cloud

#2. For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers.

Damon Lindelof

#3. It must seem like the world is ending, but wait and see what God will do. He must have something wonderful in mind.

Rachel Hauck

#4. Though we live in a world that dreams of ending that always seems about to give in something that will not acknowledge conclusion insists that we forever begin.

Brendan Kennelly

#5. A story with a single ending seems to us a bare and diminished thing, like a tree with a single branch; and each ending seems to us an expression of something that is buried deep within the tale and can be brought to light in that way and no other.

Steven Millhauser

#6. Most of what a man is has been written by the time his beard starts to prickle. A babe is made of maybes. There are few crimes worse than the ending of something before its time.

Mark Lawrence

#7. Both of us were quiet with the recognition that something was ending, and something was beginning.

Lisa Kleypas

#8. Find something you really love doing and mix it with something you really care about. That's why I've had such longevity as an artist. I really, really care about ending violence against women, and I really, really love playing music. It's super enjoyable!

Kathleen Hanna

#9. Habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.

Albert Camus

#10. I've remade a few movies and they all have one thing in common: great endings. If you're going to remake something, make sure that ending is tight. It's a little less challenging, if you have a great ending. If you don't have a great ending, don't remake the movie.

Chris Rock

#11. But there's no such thing as a completely fresh start. Everything new arrives on the heels of something old, and every beginning comes at the cost of an ending.

Jennifer E. Smith

#12. To blithely discard the spent kernels of something that has ended is to discard the very resources that have painstakingly been harvested from that ending from which a spirited new beginning will be cultivated.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#13. From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

Winston S. Churchill

#14. You will stop turning to food when you start understanding in your body, not just your mind, that there is something better ... Truth, not force, does the work of ending compulsive eating.

Geneen Roth

#15. I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present.

David Levithan

#16. Incapable of enjoying the moment, the male needs something to look forward to, and money provides him with an eternal, never-ending goal: Just think of what you could do with 80 trillion dollars
invest it! And in three years time you'd have 300 trillion dollars!!!

Valerie Solanas

#17. The great thing about television is that most things get resolved by the end of the episode. So I think a lot of people watch TV to see something of their real lives reflected on the screen, but also they're hoping for that happy ending.

Kali Hawk

#18. Remember, the best cure for worry is to do something positive. That's because fear is endless and formless, whereas even the worst outcome has an ending.

Adeline Yen Mah

#19. What is needed is a marriage of two impulses, a coupling of the urge to do something positive with the willingness to constantly re-evaluate how effectively our actions lead to our goal - that of ending world hunger ...

Harry Chapin

#20. I want people to feel something in the pit of their stomach. I want my movies, especially the ending, to stay with people long after the credits have rolled.

Ruba Nadda

#21. Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the evolution, a never-ending horizon.

Deepak Chopra

#22. Nothing looks more lovely than something that's about to end, and that's true even if you yourself are going to be the cause of its ending.

Chris Beckett

#23. I think often there is no good way out of something. No nice, easy ending or neat resolution, no clear way to set things right. That works in stories, in children's fairy tales, but not in real life. Nothing everything can be fixed. And perhaps not everything should be.

Elana K. Arnold

#24. I think that we were both wrong. I think that Arthur had sex with his sister to create a short century."
"Daddy, what are you talking about?"
"He was trying to end something, and by ending it start something totally new.

David Burr Gerrard

#25. People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of.

Nellie Bly

#26. I like happy endings in movies. I think life has a happy ending. When it's all said and done, it's all something worthwhile, and I want my movies to reflect that. There are enough things to be sad about. When you pop in a movie, let the message be one that's one of hope.

Jon Favreau

#27. Art builds upon art, builds upon art ... nothing is purely original. We're all inspired by something ... or someone. It's a never-ending chain of ideas ... and it's magical.

Shannon Taylor Hodnett

#28. You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.

Damon Hill

#29. I usually start with an ending, then outline high points of things that happen, and kind of make up the rest as I go along. Occasionally, the characters surprise me, and I wonder how we got here. Other times, the characters are stubborn and won't do something I want them to in the story.

Julie Kagawa

#30. A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.

Lev Grossman

#31. 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

#32. 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

#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. Gravity was something you could beat; all it took was hydrogen, hot air, or even a bit of rope. But being a girl was a miserable, never-ending struggle.

Scott Westerfeld

#35. I've realized that in all the great stories, even if there's a happily-ever-after ending, there's something sad.

Emma Thompson

#36. The bigger point here is that golf is a good metaphor for one's life. The challenge of golf for me is trying to learn new rules. It's something you always have to work at; you don't get perfect at golf. It's the never-ending quest for betterment.

Morgan Freeman

#37. Another year is ending, but something is pending

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#38. Be tempted by so easy a way of ending my life. I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it. And all this befell

Leo Tolstoy

#39. Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Karl Marx

#40. I leaned forward to kiss him again, knowing as I did that something was ending while something else had already begun.

Morgan Matson

#41. If you're having a not so good day, all you have to do is read or watch something with an happy ending.

Karlene Pitters

#42. In dog culture, when someone calls you, you should absolutely not come if that results in the ending of something you like or initiation of something you don't like.

Jean Donaldson

#43. Twenty-five, six-foot-something Colombian-American. Unshaven jaw, windswept brown hair, and a never-ending gruff expression. Like the universe just took a giant shit on his head.

Becca Ritchie

#44. I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect ... As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.

Sarah Dessen

#45. And as I touched his cheek and his hand tightened on my waist, I leaned forward to kiss him again, knowing as I did that something was ending while something else had already begun -Andie

Morgan Matson

#46. That, I think, is the shock of any relationship ending. It is realizing that what is still an ongoing relationship to someone is, for the other person, something finished and done with.

Robin Hobb

#47. I feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending.

Norah Jones

#48. But just because something does not have an ending doesn't mean it doesn't have a conclusion.

Iain M. Banks

#49. There is something intoxicating about ending a life, about wiping bad people off the face of the earth. But it's also a dark and deadly pull. After all, who am I to decide who lives or dies?

Paula Stokes

#50. ING is ending for something which continue and continue...
So Morning - Continue - Start
AfterNoon - The Middle - Almost finish
Night - The ENd - Finish

Deyth Banger

#51. There's something nice about out-and-out children's books with no sex and a happy ending - Ransome, Streatfeild, that kind of thing.

Jo Walton

#52. There was something incongruous about one marriage ending the same day another began, as if there was an exchange program in the universe or something, a trade required in order to keep the numbers even.

Sarah Dessen

#53. The sky was something she'd so often dreamed of while the hoo-ha of the Sunday service carried on around her. There seemed to her infinitely more God to be found by staring up at the never-ending universe than by looking glumly around a building of bricks and stone.

Ali Shaw

#54. Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pauline Kael

#55. People generally like happy endings, which is something I learned from my years in advertising. I like happy endings myself, but only if they're honest. I'm just as happy with a terrible, hopeless ending.

Augusten Burroughs

#56. There's something stalking us. Off to the side of the road, moving through the forest.'

Kettricken smiled.

Robin Hobb

#57. For designers, the rigidity of an alphabet presents a never-ending artistic challenge: How do you do something new and still preserve the letters' essential forms?

Virginia Postrel

#58. By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something unattainable. Never-ending undying love. And in hip hop, we're still taking direct inspiration.

Talib Kweli

#59. Mrs. Murdo, walkind even more briskly to keep her spirits up, was crossing Harken Square when something fell to the pavement just in front of her with a terrific thump. How extraordinary, she thought, bending to pick it up. It was sort of a bundle. She began to untie it.

Jeanne DuPrau

#60. Everything goes, everything is lost, eventually. But if something is good, it doesn't matter what happens. The ending is still happy.

Geoff Ryman

#61. When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through.

Norah Jones

#62. Sometimes the happiest ending isn't the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are.

Shauna Niequist

#63. If you can die, you are confused because death is a perception of something ending and something else obviously beginning, which means we're still hung up on qualities.

Frederick Lenz

#64. 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.

C. JoyBell C.

#65. Bravo," said Grimalkin, peering down from Cold Tom's chest. "The Winter prince and Oberon's jester agreeing on something. The world must be ending.

Julie Kagawa

#66. If the world is ending, a woman will want to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take the time to tell a man something he's done wrong. -Matrim Cauthon

Robert Jordan

#67. life is the reason for living and death is the reason for dying if we are to live, why die ? there is a ending for everything and being alive gives us a chance to do something and enjoy it.

Pamela

#68. People don't understand us. They don't understand me. They think it's so black and white, that he makes me miserable and that I should be with someone else and that I deserve something else.
But it's not black and white at all. It's gray. It's a never ending world of gray.

Amanda Grace

#69. Just because something is over doesn't mean it wasn't incredibly beautiful. Because another lesson I've learned is not all stories have a happy ending and you have to learn how to deal with that.

Taylor Swift

#70. Sometimes what seems to be the ending of something is really the beginning of Everything.

Kate McGahan

#71. Nobody can go back and start all over again. But anyone can start today and make a new beginning. Instead of another closure, make a new future.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#72. We are all at risk of something. Of ending up exactly where we began, of failing to imagine and find and know and actualize who we could be. The only difference is the distance of the leap.

Cheryl Strayed