Top 100 Quotes About Endings

#1. I felt clean, all the bone-beaked loneliness birds banished, their rocky nests turned to river stones. Cool, clear water bubbled over them, streams in the desert.

Bryce Courtenay

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#2. It's life, that's all. There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one dies happy. And the price of not dying is that things change all the time, and the only thing you can count on is that there's not a thing you can do about it.

Jonathan Tropper

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#3. I liked beginnings better than endings.

Kim Harrison

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#4. There are others. There will be others. Other heroes, other heroines. Other prophecies to fulfill, other adversaries to despise. There will be stories told and forgotten, and reinvented anew until one day, perhaps, the oldest are remembered, and the beginning may end, and the ending begin.

Jacqueline Carey

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#5. In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.

Rose Tremain

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#6. The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked 'release of frustration.'

Jon Landau

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#7. Today's ashes are tomorrow's soil.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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#8. I always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings.

Joe Eszterhas

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#9. And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning.

Hunter S. Thompson

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#10. Happy endings are for suckers. Even Old Yeller had to die.

Steve Braunstein

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#11. That's kind of the weird thing that M. Night Shyamalan has sort of unleashed upon the world is this need for every movie to have these ridiculous endings.

Alex Winter

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#12. Endings, it seems, are not all they're cracked up to be.

Rachel Joyce

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#13. When you peeled back the skin, you were dealing with bone and muscle, blood and nerve endings. It was all the same. She liked the beautiful logic of the circulatory system, the elegance of the neurological, and the fierce warrior spirit of the heart. The body had rules and it had quirks.

Libba Bray

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#14. Happy endings are a luxury of fiction.

Trudi Canavan

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#15. Yeah, and that alternate universes usually have the worst endings with the unhappiest conclusions.

Krista Ritchie

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#16. 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

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#17. Sometimes the best answers to prayer are the ones God doesn't answer.

Robin Jones Gunn

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#18. I know beginnings, I know endings too,
and life-in-death, and something else
I'd rather not recall just now.

Anna Akhmatova

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#19. Nothing surprises me on 'Happy Endings,' because the show - I think one of the awesome things about the show is that it's so open to doing anything. We could do a genre episode. We have the green light to do whatever we want. Mostly because no one's watching.

Adam Pally

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#20. All analyses end badly. Each 'termination' leaves the participants with the taste of ashes in their mouths; each is absurd; each is a small, pointless death. Psychoanalysis cannot tolerate happy endings; it casts them off the way the body's immunological system casts off transplanted organs.

Janet Malcolm

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#21. Beginning hook readers. Endings create fans.

Martha Alderson

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#22. I no longer believe
in fairytale endings since
I stopped kissing boys
with mouthfuls of disappointment and
started treating my body like
a burning building
so nobody can get close enough
to get inside of me.

Sade Andria Zabala

Quotes About Endings #60148
#23. You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous.

Larry Gelbart

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#24. Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

Baltasar Gracian

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#25. Most people never ask where the road goes if the road is very beautiful! This is an ignorance because the 'endings' may never carry the beauties of the beginnings!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#26. There are people who read Tolstoy or Dostoevski who do not insist that their endings be happy or pleasant or, at least, not be depressing. But if you're writing mysteries - oh, no, you can't have an ending like that. It must be tidy.

Martha Grimes

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#27. I tell ya! The road to success is an endless battle for you and me.

Steven Jackson

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#28. Since when," he asked,
"Are the first line and last line of any poem
Where the poem begins and ends?

Seamus Heaney

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#29. Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.

Barbara Corcoran

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#30. Genesis began with the Father losing His family. Revelation ends with Him getting them back. Is there nothing to be learned from this sad cycle? Truly, family is the legitimate theme of holy text.
pg vi

Michael Ben Zehabe

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#31. And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

Stephen King

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#32. Odd to think that the piece of you I know best is already dead. The cells on the surface of your skin are thin and flat without the blood vessels or nerve endings. Dead cells, thickest on the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet.

Jeanette Winterson

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#33. Life is not always about happy endings. Sometimes it's about finding happiness in the ending you get.

Chip Rossetti

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#34. A remarkable fact of nature is that problems almost always get solved just when they are meant to. And those who can help solve the problems almost always show up at the right time.

Cynthia Rylant

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#35. I don't believe that 17-year-olds get happy endings. They get beginnings.

Rainbow Rowell

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#36. It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.

Paulo Coelho

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#37. One of my motivating forces has been to recreate the world I know into a world I wish I could be in. Hence my optimism and happy endings.

Kristin Hunter

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#38. 'Pride' is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I've come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfilment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life.

Joe Wright

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#39. Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.

Ann Brashares

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#40. But as Hegel teaches us, beginnings are necessarily problematic. (As are endings.) How can I describe my first encounter with Ana fairly, when my understanding of her essence has passed through infinite iterations over the past four and a half years? My

Alena Graedon

Quotes About Endings #111796
#41. It is always easier to see the beginning from the end, than the end from the beginning.

Julia McNair Wright

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#42. Partings are the beginnings of new meetings.
Beginnings happen because there are endings.

Natsuki Takaya

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#43. There are no endings, and there are no fairy tales. But the pages keep being written. Time soldiers on.

Jill Dembowski

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#44. This isn't a book. This isn't a paranormal fantasy or whatever the hell it is you read. There is no set plot or clear idea of where any of this is going. The enemies aren't obvious. There are no guaranteed happy endings.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

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#45. All deaths, all endings, are a path to the next beginning.

Alberto Villoldo

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#46. You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

Lauren Oliver

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#47. But maybe, that's the point. That there are no guarentees. There are no happy endings. But you show up anyway. You don't give up. You NEVER give up. Maybe that's what it takes to be a HERO. -Billy Kaplan

Allan Heinberg

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#48. Perfect endings... they don't exist, 'Phie. Only in stories, where nothing ever really changes. Here, right now, isn't a story. There is no happy ending, because it's not the end. Do you understand?

Joe Ducie

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#49. My hope for all of us is that 'the miles we go before we sleep' will be filled with all the feelings that come from deep caring
delight , sadness, joy, wisdom
and that in all the endings of our life, we will be able to see the new beginnings.

Fred Rogers

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#50. Sometimes you need to take the chance and risk it all. Everything might come to an abrupt end or lead to a prosperous beginning either way you would have got your answers, answers you happened to seek which will only be given to you when you ask for them, when you speak.

Chirag Tulsiani

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#51. She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most.

Sandra Bullock

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#52. Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for. - Ann Patchett, from the essay The Sense of an Ending

Megan Hart

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#53. The clitoris contains 8,000 nerve endings. It makes it easy to have sex. With yourself.

Dannii Minogue

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#54. And I hope above all you give your heart to someone again no matter how many broken promises you have recieved.

Nikki Rowe

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#55. About happy endings. Folk like a story to finish well. Doesn't matter if that's true to life or not. Helps to hear about folk being content. About good folk getting what they deserve. While you're listening you can believe, for a bit, that you're good too. Worth a happy ending.

Juliet Marillier

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#56. Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks.

Lorne Michaels

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#57. True enjoy stories never ever have endings.

Richard Bach

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#58. Endings are rubbish. No such thing. Never has been, never will be. There is only the place where you choose to stop talking. Everything else goes on forever.

Catherynne M Valente

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#59. When people start talking about enjambment and line endings, I always shut them up. This is not something to talk about, this is a private matter, it's up to the poet.

James Tate

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#60. That's the difference between life and art, of course. Life has no frames, no curtains, no beginnings and no endings.

Orson Scott Card

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#61. The best parts of life aren't clear-cut or obvious - they don't have neat endings. I know it's your inclination to skip to the end, but you can't just focus on how it's all gonna turn out.

Anna Breslaw

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#62. I do not know why journalists insist on calling their stuff "pieces", when they are in fact little entities, attempting to have beginnings, middles and endings.

James Cameron

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#63. I am trying not to think of what will happen next.
I am trying not to think of endings.

David Levithan

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#64. I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

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#65. She lived in fear of ifonic endings. (91)

Anne Lamott

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#66. How could it be possible that there were that many nerve endings all in one place?

Rainbow Rowell

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#67. It's a lot easier to say when something ended rather than when it began. Most of us can recognize the end from a mile away, but the beginning always slips up on us, lulling us into thinking what we're living through is yet another moment, in yet another day.

Steve Yarbrough

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#68. I knew it was a day of endings, one way or another.

Chris Howard

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#69. Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.

Robin Hobb

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#70. True love stories have no endings... author unknown

K.K. Gould

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#71. I always begin [a novel] with outlines, but they change and so do my endings and beginnings.

Sefi Atta

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#72. He adjusted his body in relation to hers. His head angled down, his hand forming a canopy between them to shield her face from the sun. It was a useless gesture. only silence. The sunlight on her hair

Jhumpa Lahiri

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#73. Some reviewers call my stories dark - and yes, there is violence and angst, and the stakes are high - but I like to think that the endings are satisfying and hopeful.

Carol Berg

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#74. i know it all ends the same,
but i was interested in seeing
how you would break my heart.

AVA.

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#75. But it is perhaps not such a good idea to look back - all the stories say so. Look what happened to Lot's wife. Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings?

Stephen King

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#76. Once upon a time I thought I could change stories, make them go the way I wanted, instead of where they actually went.

April Genevieve Tucholke

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#77. Pete wondered if the endings of things gathered in the corners of a room, hanging down like a spider's web, waiting.

Alice Hoffman

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#78. Frederica also thought, for she had been there many times, that if this was a beginning, it was the beginning of an ending, that was the way it went.

A.S. Byatt

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#79. Life is endings and beginnings.

Amy Poehler

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#80. There goes Mig with her happy endings again," Chris said. But I don't care. I like happy endings. And I asked Chris why something should be truer just because it's unhappy. He couldn't answer.

Diana Wynne Jones

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#81. Amidst the rush of worldly comings and goings, I observe how all endings become beginnings

Wayne Dyer

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#82. Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.

Ariana Franklin

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#83. ...As for having him only while on earth... that IS how it stands now, but don't give up. He's a really good person, Jane. And he loves you... You've got to have a little faith -- And keep dreaming. Some happy endings just take a little longer and are harder to come by.

Michele Paige Holmes

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#84. It's a poem, of our love, that doesn't rhyme. A story, never meant to have, a happy end.

Khadija Rupa

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#85. As Olafsson showed me, White can win ... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.

Bobby Fischer

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#86. If you look for endings you can always find one, but I truly felt as if I had used up the last of my youth, if youth is that finite stage of life when it all feels expeditionary, inexact.

Charles Finch

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#87. True stories seldom have endings.
I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.

Frances Hardinge

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#88. Only bad books have good endings.
If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.

Pseudonymous Bosch

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#89. Real is not Dreams, Dreams are not Real,
Unless you find the fine line ... and erase it

C. Elizabeth

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#90. Men like him, the kind of guys who left the womb fighting? They didn't get fairy-tale endings. They burned bright until they burned out - and he was burning out.

Tonya Burrows

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

Dennis Covington

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#92. An ending is only happening because at some point it was a beginning. And if an ending is dependent upon a beginning, I would be well advised to focus on the miracle of beginnings verses the pain of endings.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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#93. And endings are always the beginnings of something else.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

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#94. I had just finished working on a play, and we started to talk to the 'Happy Endings' folks. There was interest from both sides, which was exciting, because I thought it was very fresh. Adam Pally's just a really funny, talented dude. I thought I'd be great to jump on and do some comedy.

James Wolk

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#95. In life, the number of beginnings is exactly equal to the number of endings ... In poetry, the number of beginnings so far exceeds the number of endings that we cannot even conceive of it.

Mary Ruefle

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#96. The problem with happy endings," Tan'elKoth said, "is that nothing is ever truly over.

Matthew Woodring Stover

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#97. The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending
the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.

Orson Scott Card

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#98. As they helped Max clear the few dishes they used, he told them the plan for tomorrow. "It's our custom to bury our dead at sunrise," he said. "We believe that dawn is the time of renewal. Endings and beginnings are inseparable, like the moment before dawn and the moment after." "That's

Kass Morgan

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#99. While we can't always engineer our own happy endings, we can learn how to be more happy than not with the cards we've been dealt.

Adam Silvera

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#100. There are no longer simple tales with quests and beasts and happy endings. The quests lack clarity of goal or path. The beasts take different forms and are difficult to recognize for what they are. And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things

Erin Morgenstern

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