Endings Quotes

“No story ever ends, does it? It just leads into others.”
― Rick Riordan, The Tower of Nero

“It occurs to me that if anyone ever bullies me again I will warn them one time but probably start to stop loving them, and that if they do it again I will have my final answer, that a person who does that to me does not love me. And then I will explain that their behavior has made it clear to me that I want to leave, and although I will have been clear, I will have been respectful, I will leave without participating in condemnation. I will go without digging deeper into the dark.”
― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

“Fate still owes me a dance.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“The day you reached your pockets,
giving me broken shells that I cherished
as the most precious jewels,
I hoped that you, perhaps,
will find missing pieces of your broken heart in me.
I was wrong because you are still looking for them in someone else.”
― Tatjana Ostojic, Cacophony of My Soul: When Love Becomes Poetry

“Maybe the ending isn't even really the point. Just as long as there was a happy somewhere along the way.”
― Kacen Callender, This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story

“...there's no such thing as a happy ending. The songs, books, and movies with "happy endings" al stop at teh moment of triumph....There are, however, good stopping places.”
― Shaun Hamill, A Cosmology of Monsters

“Even tiny empires fall.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“At the end of all things, there was no song;
So the legends lived on, until all that remained
were the stories she must tell.”
― Emory R. Frie, Realm of the Snow Queen

“I searched among her crayons for a color that represented autumn and pulled out an orange-toned crayon, never used. It read “Bittersweet,” and I wondered why that particular name. Autumn was my favorite time of year… I was always ready for the change. I guess some people didn’t see it that way. Some people wanted to cling to summer... I loved both seasons, but I thought no one would ever call spring bittersweet, even though it was just another change, another new cycle, an end to one season and a beginning for another in an endless, never-ending spiral.”
― Janet Rebhan, Finding Tranquility Base

“An honest goodbye is one that does not seek excuses or reasons, or explanations of any kind. Ultimately, it is not because of this or that that we part from a lover. Far from being an orderly linear progression, causes and effects form a complex web of interacting forces that together manifest in this or that result, which in its turn becomes part of the web and contributes to whatever comes next. The web itself is as broad and deep as the ocean. Behind every event, no matter how small, is a universe of causative factors stretching back through time as well as space. So let us rather bow to the fact and the mystery of what is before us, whatever it may be, and embrace its reality, regardless of its origins, without trying to control it by explaining it away.”
― Roger Housden, Ten Poems to Say Goodbye

“I’ve seen life accept endings, but I never seen life surrender to them.”
― Craig D Lounsbrough

“As the orchestra lifted into "Darling Nikki," I took small breaths to keep tears from coming. I had not expected this --to feel the close of a chapter. The girlhood of my life over now.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone

“Hari Seldon called Trantor 'Star's End,' he whispered, 'and why not that bit of poetic imagery? All the universe was once guided from this rock; all the apron strings of the stars led here. 'All roads lead to Trantor,' says the old proverb, 'and that is where all stars end.”
― Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation

“The dark ending does not cancel out
the brightness of the middle.
Your day of greatest joy cannot be dimmed by any shame.”
― Tony Hoagland

“It struck her that endings were never as you would expect them to be.”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

“So you really think our hearts are decaying?”

“I don’t know whether that’s the right word, but I do know that you’re changing, and not in a way that can be easily reversed or undone. It seems to be leading to an end that frightens me a great deal.” As he spoke, he swiveled the handle of his teacup back and forth. The old man continued to stare at the music box.

“An end,” I murmured to myself. It was not as though I had never thought about this. End… conclusion… limit—how many times had I tried to imagine where I was headed, using words like these? But I’d never managed to get very far. It was impossible to consider the problem for very long, before my senses froze and I felt myself suffocating. Nor was it helpful to talk about this with the old man, since he simply repeated over and over that everything would be all right.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

“We all must die someday. Without endings, there are no beginnings. We humans need bookends. Just because we don’t understand the plan doesn’t mean there isn’t one.”
― E.V. Everest, Seven Crowns

“There was time for all their miracles now. For ghosts and transformations; for passion and ambiguity; for noonday visions and midnight glory. Time in abundance.

For nothing ever begins.

And this story, having no beginning, will have no end”
― Clive Barker, Weaveworld

“I slept in his room for the rest of that year and continued until the spring I turned nine, the year he died.”
― You-Jeong Jeong, The Good Son

“There are times when burning a bridge is the best gift you can give another person.”
― Jeffrey Duarte

“I'm not looking for happiness. But I'm not looking for an ending either.
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― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

“no matter how large the beast
a
bleeding
eventually
stops”
― Donny Jackson, boy

“why is it that when the story ends we begin to feel all of it”
― Rupi Kaur, The sun and her flowers

“She was no fool. She had never expected the future before them to be perfect. She knew life had its cycles. There would be War and there would be Peace. There would be victories as well as defeats, joys as well as sorrows. Griefs and celebrations would have their place, love and hate would have their times. Nesrin knew this and she accepted it. But, they did not matter. She did not need a happily ever after to be happy. She didn't live there, in the future. She lived here, in the present, where eternity touched the human soul. It was all that mattered.
 
And right here, right now, all was right with the world.”
― May K., Rename the Stars

“What vanishes when everything vanishes: not only everything, but the memory of everything. Not only can everything no longer remember itself, no longer remember how it was when it still was everything, before it became nothing, but there is nobody else to remember either, and so everything not only ceases to exist but becomes a thing that never was; it is as if everything that was, was not, and moreover there is nobody left to tell the story, not the whole grand story of everything, not even the last sad story of how everything became nothing, because there is no storyteller, no hand to write or eye to read, so that the book of how everything became nothing cannot be written, just as we cannot write the stories of our own deaths, which is our tragedy, to be stories whose endings can never be known, not even to ourselves, because we are no longer there to know them.”
― Salman Rushdie, Quichotte

“False things, endings. Sutenance for fools and never what they claim to be.”
― Max Porter, Lanny

“There are no happy endings. You just haven't read the next chapter, or the sequel, where everyone dies or decides they aren't happy anymore.”
― Paul Kellie

“Beginnings and endings are simply part of a journey that isn’t stopped by either.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A new start is never dictated by some random place on a calendar. Rather, it’s dictated by the state of our attitude.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Ends and origins are not inherent in the world. It is you, not the world, who calls the shots in this respect. Wherever you make a start, however, you may be sure that an enormous amount will have happend already. And whenever you call a halt, a great deal will carry on regardless.”
― Terry Eagleton, How to Read Literature