How It Ends Quotes

#1. I kept a picture of me kissing my dad's corpse on the forehead in my wallet for years. I'd break it out any time someone showed me a baby picture, just so they would know how it ends.

Doug Stanhope

#2. Would you do it differently if you could, now that you know how it ends?

Abbi Glines

#3. That's how it ends
So, this is it.
when we lose it all
but
this is not the End
This is only
The Beginning of the End

Rixa White

#4. It is not about how it ends; it is about the journey. The full story. You have to know the full story to care about or know the ending.

Patti Callahan Henry

#5. If you start a painting and you don't like where it's going, don't give up on it. Just keep going and follow through. You might be surprised how it ends up.

Andrew McDermott

#6. So let him do his worst. I am the Reaper. I know how to suffer. I know the darkness. This is not how it ends.

Pierce Brown

#7. That's it then. This is how it ends. I haven't even read Proust.

James Turner

#8. The second time you see something is really the first time. You need to know how it ends before you can appreciate how beautifully it's put together from the beginning.

David Gilmour

#9. The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins. Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities. Demonization is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one. The test is not absolute satisfaction but balanced dissatisfaction.

Henry A. Kissinger

#10. When I do a movie, I have the script. I know how it begins and how it ends. I know what my character does and where he's going. If I have ideas I want to express or changes I want to make, there's one guy: the director. It's different in television.

Holt McCallany

#11. This isn't how it ends!" Quentin said. "I am the hero of this goddamned story, Ember! Remember? And the hero gets the reward!" "No, Quentin," the ram said. "The hero pays the price." ==========

Anonymous

#12. Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.

Joseph Campbell

#13. We got it all wrong, there was no alien swarm descending from the sky in their flying saucers or big metal walkers like something out of Star Wars or cute little wrinkly E.T.s who just wanted to pluck a couple of leaves, eat some Reese's Pieces, and go home. That's not how it ends.

Rick Yancey

#14. We're making this movie up as we go along. And we don't know how it ends or even if it does end.

Art Hochberg

#15. In my kind of falling, there's no landing. There's only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you're falling, it's the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends.

David Levithan

#16. I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends ... Of course, it rarely ends that way.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#17. When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

Nora Ephron

#18. The power of a painting has to come from the inside out, not the outside in. It's not just an image. It's an image with a body and that body has to contain its spirit ... What's behind it decides everything. How it starts will define how it ends.

Sean Scully

#19. There is a sense in which I am pretty sure this makes no sense. I don't know where this is going. I don't know how it ends.

Charles Yu

#20. Probably a good idea, let me know how it ends"
"I already know how it ends"
"You read the ending first?"
"I always read the ending before I commit to the whole book."
"If you know how it ends, why read the book?"
"I don't read for the ending. I read for the story".

Jayne Ann Krentz

#21. I've seen our story. I've lived it, and I know how it ends.

Stacey Lynn

#22. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

Anne Bishop

#23. Life's an old story. we all know how it ends.

Marty Rubin

#24. No one's place in this world is guaranteed. Not everyone is going to get a happy ending. But life isn't about how it ends. It's about the moments between.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#25. If you can change the fate of a character you read out of a book by adding new words to his story, then maybe you can change everything about it: who goes out, who comes in, how it ends, who's happy, and who's unhappy afterwards.

Cornelia Funke

#26. Every story has an ending. You can't stop after one chapter just because you don't know how it ends

J.C. Reed

#27. Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.

George R R Martin

#28. So this is how it ends, she thought, when the call was over, and she was soothed by the banality of it.

Emily St. John Mandel

#29. When it begins, where it goes how it ends...It all comes down to you.

Tracy A. Ball

#30. Writers write for the same reason readers read. We want to know how it ends, too.

Robynn Tolbert

#31. I still can't think about her being there. It doesn't make sense. Why would you stick someone you love down in a lonely old hole in the dirt? Where it's cold, and dirty, and full of bugs? That can't be how it ends, after everything, after everything she was.

Kami Garcia

#32. I'm reading a book on infinity - I can' wait to see how it ends!

Iain Pattison

#33. You do a film and you know where you're going, you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.

Norman Reedus

#34. Life is so often unfair and painful and love is hard to find and you have to take it whenever and wherever you can get it, no matter how brief it is or how it ends.

Jenna Blum

#35. Life is just like a book. Only after you've read it do you know how it ends. It is when we are at the end of life that we know how our life ran. Mine, until now, has been black. As black as my skin. Black as the garbage dump where I live.

Carolina Maria De Jesus

#36. This is how it ends with everyone. You fall - you don't get back up.

Craig Johnson

#37. This is the tragedy of knowing my fate: I have seen how it ends, and I will walk right into it, and nothing will change.

Kiersten White

#38. All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I can't wait to tell it, I can't wait to see how it ends.

Khaled Hosseini

#39. Don't waste time on how it starts until you know how it ends,

Roger Ebert

#40. When you move as much as I have ... you know how it ends. You promise to stay in touch with people, but it doesn't work out. It never does. And you forgot about what the friendship used to be like, why you liked that person. And I hated it. And I just didn't want to do it again. Not with you.

Morgan Matson

#41. Every village should celebrate its birthday & it will end the poison of casteism ... and once casteism ends, see how the strength of villages increase!

Narendra Modi

#42. Though there are those who say it does not matter how a man begins, but only how he ends.

George R R Martin

#43. Don't let not knowing how it'll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.

Bob Goff

#44. I'm not buried in that plot, Karoline. Some woman claiming to be me from the future is."
"Why do they call it a plot, anyway?"
"Because this is how every story ends.

Brian K. Vaughan

#45. So how exactly was I supposed to wrap my head around the whole thing? I wasn't entirely sure I could trust this guy. I mean, this was it? Really? My life ends and some creep in a grungy leather jacket takes me away? No, I couldn't accept that. -Jen

Nessie Strange

#46. Sometimes something intrigues me about particular sounds, how they work together, and I think "Okay, I've found something here; I'm going to take it somewhere." And sometimes just to find a name for that sound, whatever it is, ends up becoming a title of the piece or becoming part of the title.

Brian Eno

#47. At Girl Scouts, we are committed to raising awareness about the terrible effects of cyber bullying, and to teaching girls how to recognize the signs of bullying of any sort and extricate themselves or another from a bad situation before it spirals out of control and ends in tragedy.

Anna Maria Chavez

#48. The greatest tragedy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that everyone knows how it will end. We will divide up the region.

Yair Lapid

#49. You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.

Marco Rubio

#50. Never mind what I knew, nothing seems to matter now
Ooh, who I was without you, I can do without
No one knows where it ends, how it may come tumbling down
But I'm here with you now
I'm with you now

Sara Bareilles

#51. When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.

Cesare Pavese

#52. How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?

Roland Barthes

#53. You can't go messing around with people's hearts. It never ends well, no matter how good your intentions might be -Daniel

Amanda Hocking

#54. It's funny, people were asking me how I'd feel when it all ends, on the first movie, and I don't think I've ever felt more completely bewildered, knowing that I only have a month of Twilight stuff left to do.

Robert Pattinson

#55. Rashly,
And praised be rashness for it
let us know,
Our indiscretion sometime serves us well
When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us
There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will

William Shakespeare

#56. You never told me how the story ends, Gabe."
She held her breath, waiting for his response.
His expression held all the love and desire she knew he felt for her.
"It doesn't.

Bella Andre

#57. Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.

Margaret Thatcher

#58. We 've wholly forgotten how to die. But be sure you do die nevertheless. Do your work, and finish it. If you know how to begin, you will know when to end.

Henry David Thoreau

#59. What we do every St. Patty's day, which is wear green and drink a lot of Guinness. And maybe cry a little bit and laugh, and everyone will have to sing a song. That's how every funeral, christening, and wedding ends up in Ireland. Everyone ends up having to sing a song by the end of it.

Saoirse Ronan

#60. A lot of my friends are artists or musicians or single parent families and I'm totally aware of how difficult it is for them to make ends meet.

Shirley Manson

#61. Where a story ends is nothing more than a snapshot in time, a brief flash of emotion, a pause. How and if it continues is up to us.

Hugh Howey

#62. Just speak your truth, it's an important cornerstone of how your life ends up sort of unfolding in front of you. Even if it's painful, if it's honest, it's going to bring you to the place you deserve to be.

Sara Bareilles

#63. The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

Noam Chomsky

#64. Words are more thoughts;
the photographed images always
ends up having a romantic gloss about it
- no matter how I try to avoid it.

Robert Frank

#65. And don't you ever do anything like that again! I am the one who ends up in the stupid life-threatening situations. You are the levelheaded, responsible one in this relationship. Got it? This is how this whole thing works. We have to stick to our designated roles, or there is chaos!

Molly Harper

#66. So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends.

Anna Godbersen

#67. Whatever you do, whatever you redo, it all ends up here. Some things are just unavoidable. No matter how hard you try, the things meant to go to shit still go to shit. Terrible things happen, Micah, and you can't stop them. You just can't."

So you just do more terrible things.

Amy Zhang

#68. Leaders must regularly reassess what's working as a result of the changes, what's not working, what still needs attention, and how people are responding to the changes. The vision doesn't end with implementation; it ends with saturation and acceptance.

April Diaz

#69. We all end up dead, it's just a question of how and why.

William Wallace

#70. In tracking what people have to say about schooling, I notice that most of the conversation is about means, rarely about ends ... It is as if we are a nation of technicians, consumed by our expertise in how something should be done, afraid or incapable of thinking about why.

Neil Postman

#71. God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

Harvey Cox

#72. You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.

Edna Ferber

#73. It's amazing how a conversation between two moms ends up sounding like a battle between people with Tourette's.

Heather Balog

#74. Autumn begins, autumn ends; winter begins, winter ends; spring begins, spring ends; summer begins, summer ends! It is good that they end, otherwise how could we have known them? Some things must end so that we can know some other things!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#75. How do you say a thing at all, at the end of the day? How do you say what's in your mind? And as soon as you say what you actually have in mind, it's wrong, isn't it?

Ciaran Carson

#76. It's the details and the human element that makes 'Recount' entertaining. Even though we know how the election ends, it plays like a thriller. It's also funny.

Kevin Spacey

#77. I became successful and within five years conquered the world and had the most amazing run. I had so much momentum and adrenaline going, but then it ends and you have to find what level you're going to be on, how enthusiastic you're going to be.

Elton John

#78. Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Ernest Hemingway,

#79. All [true] prayer, pursued far enough, becomes praise. Any prayer, no matter how desperate its origin, no matter how angry and fearful the experiences it traverses, ends up in praise.

Timothy Keller

#80. Not learning how to read is not another style of literacy, and not learning to see others as ends in themselves is not another style of ethics. It is a failure of ethics.

Sam Harris

#81. When this story ends, a new story starts. That's how it goes. How it always goes.
-Amy, Willowgrove

Kathleen Peacock

#82. I debated whether or not to pin the setting down to a particular date but in the end I decided to leave things vague. It depends how fast technology improves.

Jonathan Trigell

#83. How satisfying will it be to know that no matter what happens to your relationship and no matter where or with whom he ends up in his life that you taught him everything he knows ... ? Catty? Maybe, but that's a fun thought.

Roberto Hogue

#84. Be careful how close you get to someone ... It just ends up hurting more than not having no one to love to begin with.

Andrew Galasetti

#85. Prayer begins and ends not with the needs of man but with the glory of God (John 14:13). It should be concerned primarily with who God is, what He wants, and how He can be glorified.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#86. How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last shot at 'nailing' it. I love to write ending lines; usually, I know them first and write toward them, but if I knew how they came to me, I wouldn't tell.

S.E. Hinton

#87. I think you have to know how you feel when you're sad and it's healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.

Leighton Meester

#88. Power in and of itself is neither worthy of respect nor fear; it simply is. It is how power is employed, and towards what ends, that ennobles or denigrates the wielder of power.

Raymond E. Feist

#89. Every couple starts off loving each other, don't they? It's how a relationship ends that really defines its nature.

Lisa Unger

#90. I don't see how anybody starts a novel without knowing how it's going to end. I usually make detailed outlines: how many chapters it will be and so forth.

John Barth

#91. It's not what you do, but HOW you do it. Because in the end everyone knows almost as much, just not the same way.

Caio Terra

#92. Breakups are hard for anybody, and no matter how it happens or ends up, they're just hard.

Megan Hilty

#93. You're it. The one. The start. The finish. You are how my story ends.

Belle Aurora

#94. Kira is evil ... There's no denying that ... But lately I've been starting to think of it more like this ... The real evil is the power to kill people. Someone who finds himself with that power is cursed. No matter how you use it, anything obtained by killing people can never bring true happiness.

Tsugumi Ohba

#95. The basic formula of life... SURVIVE. EAT. SHIT. FUCK. BUY A HOUSE and DIE. It's all been scripted. But there's no need to see the second act. You already know how the play ends, don't you?

Andrew Armacost

#96. What I like to wear, I do myself. I don't know how that sounds, but it's the truth. My life is so mixed with my profession that I don't know where I begin or my work ends.

Ann Demeulemeester

#97. No matter how many times you shake it the last drop always ends up in your pants

Stephen King

#98. Death has dominion because it is not only the start of nothing but the end of everything, and how we think and talk about dying - the emphasis we put on dying with 'dignity' - shows how important it is that life ends appropriately, that death keeps faith with the way we have lived it.

Ronald Dworkin

#99. I think a good story, well told is a good story, well told, whether you're watching the episodes all in a row or not. However, it might be fun to take a closer look at how the previous episode ends and how that end relates to the beginning of the next episode.

Jenji Kohan

#100. Some of us are afraid of getting too emotional when we sing. But the problem isn't emotions. It's emotionalism. Emotionalism pursues feelings as ends in themselves. It's wanting to feel something with no regard for how that feeling is produced or its ultimate purpose.

John Piper