Quotes about ending

Margo T. Rose - The Words

Did you say all that you meant toBefore the curtain closed?Or did you feel so much moreThan we'll ever know?You were an amazing personOne of the very best.You were here for part of my storyI wish you could hear the rest.I miss your smile mostThe smile you had for all.Now I can only see itIn pictures on the wall.

Ryan Reynolds -

The problem with romantic comedies is you know the ending by the poster. So they're not movies you can keep doing over and over again expect satisfaction somehow.

Henry Ian Cusick -

'Not Another Happy Ending' is a romantic comedy starring Karen Gillan and Stanley Weber. It is about these two characters and their relationships.

Marina Abramovic -

People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.

Carly Fiorina -

I think Donald Trump taps into an anger that I hear every day. People are angry that a commonsense thing like securing the border or ending sanctuary cities is somehow considered extreme. It's not extreme it's common sense. We need to secure the border.

Barack Obama -

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.

Margo T. Rose - The Words

It's not that I'm angryYou've done nothing wrong.I'm just not sure why I'm stayingWhen you're already gone.

Margo T. Rose - The Words

There's no room for me in your worldIt's time I stopped pretending.But nothing hurts me moreThan a friendship when it's ending.

Virgil Goode -

One: balance the budget now, not later. Two: Get Americans jobs by ending illegal immigration and making legal immigration harder. Lastly: Impose term limits.

Gayle Forman - Just One Day

The day is ending it's not coming back.

Eleanor Catton - The Luminaries

Tonight shall be the very beginning.''Was it?''It shall be. For me.''My beginning was the albatrosses.''That is a good beginning I am glad it is yours. Tonight shall be mine.''Ought we to have different ones?''Different beginnings? I think we must.''Will there be more of them?''A great many more. Are your eyes closed?''Yes. Are yours?''Yes. Though it's so dark it hardly makes a difference.''I feel—more than myself.''I feel—as though a new chamber of my heart has opened.''Listen.''What is it?''Th

Sarah Dessen - The Truth About Forever

But as long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.

Munia Khan -

A moment’s beginning ends in a moment

Tad Williams - The Dragonbone Chair

He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.

Peter S. Beagle - The Last Unicorn

I am no king, and I am no lord,And I am no soldier at-arms," said he."I'm none but a harper, and a very poor harper,That am come hither to wed with ye.""If you were a lord, you should be my lord,And the same if you were a thief," said she."And if you are a harper, you shall be my harper,For it makes no matter to me, to me,For it makes no matter to me.""But what if it prove that I am no harper?That I lied for your love most monstrously?""Why, then I'll teach you to play and sing,For I dearly love

Turcois Ominek -

I'm guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I'm done, I'm done.

Jennifer Close - The Hopefuls

When a friendship ends, people don't always give it the same amount of thought that they do relationships ... most of the time, friendships end in a different way - slowly, and without declarations. Usually people don't really notice until a friend has been gone for a while and then they just say they grew apart, or their lives became too different.

Patti Smith - M Train

And then I walked out, straight through the twilight, treading the beaten earth. There were no dust clouds, no signs of anyone, but I paid no mind. I was my own lucky hand of solitaire. The desert landscape unchanging: a long, unwinding scroll that I would one day amuse myself by filling. I'm going to remember everything and then I'm going to write it all down. An aria to a coat. A requiem for a café. That's what I was thinking, in my dream, looking down at my hands.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

If I am brave enough to stand against those who have been groomed by fear, I will recognize that where I get knocked down is all about where life begins, and has nothing to do with where it ends.

Matchbox 20 -

We know the end is overrated, we'll become the walls we raise. We don't believe enough, but we still care.

Darren Shan - Slawter

As long as you’re breathing, your story’s still going.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

When someone puts an end to something, it doesn't mean that he gave up, it means that thing is not taking him anywhere.

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

You have no control over how your story begins or ends. But by now, you should know that all things have an ending. Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. Every flower returns to sleep with the earth. The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimateart.

Neil Gaiman - Season of Mists

Everything created has a beginning, Destiny of the Endless...as everything created has an end.

J.P. Delaney - The Girl Before

But one day, when Toby is old enough, I will take down a shoe box from a shelf where it is kept, and I will tell him again the story of his sister, Isabel Margaret Cavendish, the girl who came before.

Amit Kalantri -

I don't expect congratulations for successful beginning, what I want is the applaud at successful ending.

Kate Atkinson - A God in Ruins

And with a massive roar the fifth wall comes down and the house of fiction falls, taking Viola and Sunny and Bertie with it. They melt into thin air and disappear. Pouf!

Roshani Chokshi - The Star-Touched Queen

He loved her. And she loved him. And in such bliss does devastation grow.

Kate Atkinson - A God in Ruins

All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination.And this one is Teddy's.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés - Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

The only trust required is to know that when there is one ending there will be another beginning.

Robin Hobb - Fool's Assassin

There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything else has ended and nothing else can ever begin.

Paola Marie M. -

Remember if it's not happy then it's not the end so babe keep fighting, you'll win this war.

Karen Tei Yamashita - Tropic of Orange

Just cuz you get to the end doesn’t mean you know what happened.

Kristin Cashore - Fire

It was a hurting tune, resigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind to say goodbye.

Chirag Tulsiani -

Endings are abstruse, mystic and unreal. They are but depleted beginnings purposed to be substituted with newer ones.A transition of outlook and time, similar to our differing moods before and after slumber. Before the act we witness an exhaustion, a sulkiness but on gaining consciousness, we’re rejuvenated and good humored. The wakefulness is the new beginning whereas the tension the disturbance we perceive each night is the weariness of the beginnings, of each day. So there never really is an

Margo T. Rose - The Words

I'm still looking for someoneWho said they were here for me,And I thought I was once there for you.But when troubles are nearer than friends,And the road comes to an end,What could I do?I wish I could fly away like you.

Ellen Hopkins -

A breeze blows up, touching my cheek like a little child's kiss. It flutters a piece of paper. "Trash, out there? Must belong to one of us." We move closer, and when I reached for it, I find...... a perfect paper airplane.

Margo T. Rose - The Words

We met at a cross-roads in life,But we were going different directions.We were part of each other's lives,But only for a moment.The first person that you meet in lifeWon't necessarily be the one who's forever.Just look at you and me,And it's not hard to see thatThis is the moment before life goes on.We are still friends;We are still really good friends.Please tell me that you agree.But I'm not the one for you,And you just can't see yourself with me.

John Fowles - The Collector

The two of us in that room. No past, no future. All intense deep that-time-only. A feeling that everything must end, the music, ourselves, the moon, everything. That if you get to the heart of things you find sadness for ever and ever, everywhere; but a beautiful silver sadness, like a Christ face.

Alexandra Kleeman - You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

Standing there small among the boxes of Kandy Kakes that rose like brownish cartoon cliffs around him, he resembled the videos I'd seen of sea lions floating angelically among the kelp, black bodies filmed from below, their shapes cut out in bright sunlight, bodies mistakable for those of a human being. I felt the memory of a shadowy arm around me, a watcher again, sitting there on the couch with my boyfriend, watching the animals become prey. Somewhere there were giant whales feeding on creatur

Ann Voskamp - One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.

John Connolly - A Time of Torment

The biggest life change any man would ever experience was the ending of it.

Sara Baume - A Line Made by Walking

Art, and sadness, which last forever.

Dominic Riccitello -

We must make tough decisions to see if it’s worth it in the end.

Isaac Marion - Warm Bodies

I don't know what happened. Disease? War? Social collapse? Or was it just us? The Dead replacing the Living? I guess it's not so important. Once you've arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which route you took.

Dominic Riccitello -

The hard part wasn’t breaking up. The hard part is forcing myself to fall out of love with you.

Ben Lerner - 10:04

Since the world is ending,” Peter quoted from behind us, “why not let the children touch the paintings?

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

Although I’ve been thoroughly conditioned by pain to see it otherwise, an ending is nothing more than the backside of a beginning.

Margo T. Rose - The Words

A little pain now and then is normal;The wounds will heal, and then we'll be okay.Life goes on, but not forever,So why should we?

Anthony Liccione -

We hide our demons so good, that the angels we show, bare the shame on their faces.

Craig D. Lounsbrough - An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

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.

Patrick W. Carr - A Draw of Kings

A picture of the world, nothing more than a casting stone set in the heavens, intruded on Errol's dismay. World without end. Was Illustra, their entire world, nothing more than a lot for the ultimate reader, too small and insignificant a thing to care about?

Anne Bishop - Daughter of the Blood

Daemon clung to Surreal as she flew along the Winds, too weak to argue, too spent to care. His heart, however... His heart held on fiercely to Jaenelle's soft, sighing caress of his name.Everything has a price.

Christina Engela - Loderunner

Timaset didn’t need a ship – especially not a flying museum piece! And as far as he knew, a dodgy plasma injector could drop you smack into a wormhole ending somewhere on the other side of the universe with no way back. Well, he could always sell the damn thing. Couldn’t he? He could use the money. Damn, he could always use the money! Maybe the crew would want to buy it over from him?

Tamara Stamenkovic -

Life without flying unconditionally,life with hindered and heartless ending.

Jack Kornfield - Buddha's Little Instruction Book

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

Kami Garcia - Beautiful Creatures

Seventeen moons, seventeen years,Eyes where Dark or Light appears,Gold for yes and green for no, Seventeen the last to know.

Jay Asher - Thirteen Reasons Why

We almost bumped into each other. But your eyes were down so you didn't know it was me. And together we said it. "I'm sorry."Then you looked up. You saw me. And there, in your eyes, what was it? Sadness? Pain? You moved around and tried pushing your hair away from your face. Your fingernails were painted dark blue. I watched you walk down the long stretch of hallway. I stood there and watched you disappear. Forever.

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

It's a good story,' he said. He even grinned at me. 'I'll tell you.''Please,' I said.And then he did.

Olivia Sudjic - Sympathy

I hope when this is done I'll be able to get back into my happy gardening vibe that was so healthy for me. I want to go back to my routine and my morning ritual with the compost, but it will probably be that my life will split in two. New Leaf Gardening in Wood Green will be happening in parallel to a fantasy that runs along the bottom of that screen like a ticker. Alice will be fine. Rabbit will stay up tonight, and every night. Resending and resending, reopening the page to see if she has resp

John Darnielle - Wolf in White Van

And then I went back into my room, locked into a sequence as perfect as a pattern, and I sat down on my great rock throne, invisible to the outside world but palpable beneath me, and from how my face felt I thought maybe I was crying, either because I didn’t want to do this or because I did, it was hard to tell and anyway I never would, who would believe me in either case and who would be there to believe me in all cases, it was a puzzle, I had yet to learn the way of the jigsaw, and so I positi

Alexandra Kleeman - Intimations: Stories

She said that everything that disappeared from our side went over to theirs, where they kept living normal lives, waiting for the things still lingering with us to join them, and make the world whole once more.

Dexter Palmer - Version Control

And as Sean climbs into bed and closes his eyes, Mother comes, riding astride a lion the size of a house, blowing a clarion from a horn made out of a hollowed-out elephant's tusk. Her eyes have a faint crimson glow from the lasers that are mounted behind her irises, ready to fire at will.'I touched a prince's chest today and made his heart stop,' she says. 'I'll do it again if I have to: they'll see what happens if anyone gets in my way. Good night, my son. Remember that I will always keep you s

Debasish Mridha -

A good poem has rhyming but no ending, it continues to rhyme in our heart.

Dexter Palmer - The Dream of Perpetual Motion

The machines of this place are failing, and the woman and I are here all alone. The perpetual motion engine, as brilliant and beautiful as it is, is running down—nothing lasts forever. But before this little world falls out of the sky there still might be time enough for redemption. There is still time for me to say the words that I should have had the courage to say at the beginning.There is still time, perhaps, for one more miracle.Hello, Miranda.

A.D. Posey -

It ends when you’re ready for a new beginning.

Wilson M. Mukama -

End is the end of your thinking and reasoning. End is not the end of endings.

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Remember no matter how fast you run, you can't be the winner if you don't finish. As someone said, to be the first to finish, you must finish first! Go, take the strike!

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

The Christmas story is penmanship of the most brilliant sort, where God crafted a beginning that would never be subject to an ending.

Jeanne DuPrau -

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.

Robert Clairmont -

When did the world begin and how?"I asked a lamb, a goat, a cow:"What's it all about and why?"I asked a hog as he went by:"Where will the whole thing end, and when?"I asked a duck, a goose, a hen:And I copied all the answers too,A quack, a honk, an oink, a moo.

Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream

Begin each day with the hope of ending it with the bests of your steps. Plan the day ahead and ensure that the plans are worthy of ensuring your dreams are achieved. Get started.

Alina Radoi -

they say that girls are the ones who want fairy tail endings, but then again, who are the authors of fairy tales? mostly men...

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

To realize your potential you must look beyond the end of yourself, realizing that where you end is most likely where you actually begin.

Billy Collins -

I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination.

Bob Woodward -

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

Dale Earnhardt -

It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.

Emma Stone -

My favorite thing about movies is the ending, and so all my favorite movies have really great endings.

Orson Welles -

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Mary Catherine Bateson -

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

Gerry Adams -

The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.

Junot Diaz -

The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves and their subsequent being worked to death by the millions in many ways, whether it's the immigrant processes which began for many people, new worlds ending their old ones.

Igor Stravinsky -

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

Gerry Adams -

We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.

Louis B. Rosenberg -

There is a lot of work out there to take people out of the loop in things like medical diagnosis. But if you are taking humans out of the loop, you are in danger of ending up with a very cold form of AI that really has no sense of human interest, human emotions, or human values.

Kate Millett -

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

Elizabeth Bowen -

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

Nora Ephron -

'Sleepless' was a script that had been written by three or four other writers before me, and it never really worked, but it had this amazing ending on the top of the Empire State Building that just worked, no matter what came before it.

Pauline Kael -

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.

John Heywood -

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

George Burns -

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

Mehmet Murat ildan -

An endless path is frightening but the path that ends is even more frightening!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

When you begin, you envision a better end but, when you get to the end, you see the beginning better!

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Nothing truly dies. All energy simply transforms.

Jandy Nelson - The Sky Is Everywhere

I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of hands pulled off of clocks, of cold stones, of shoes filled with nothing but wind.

Wayne Gerard Trotman -

I've decided I don't like books that end with 'The End'. The fact that there are no more pages, suggests to me that the book has ended.

George Orwell -

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

Noah Feldman -

In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate.

J. F. C. Fuller -

In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.