297 Quotes About Endings

A true love story has no endings.

When you care about things, it ends up wearing you out.

What I would be quite wise to remember is that ‘pieces’ are not the end of what was, but the beginning of what is to be.

How we begin and how we end any relationship is a product of planning, fortuity, and personality. Many enterprises commenced in good faith spiral into confusion, discord, and disarray, generate turmoil and corruption, sunburn the sensitive parties, and conclude in a cesspool of regret and animosity.

To have one book published is an achievement somewhat similar to have climbed a mountain, but after a while it seems as though you are walking the street with only one shoe on your feet. To have two books published balances your step and the thought of stopping with that one satisfies your ambition, unless the unsatiabledesire to tell stories is too strong to stop, until--but is there ever an until?

Can't say I've ever been too fond of beginnings, myself. Messy little things. Give me a good ending anytime. You know where you are with an ending.

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

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.

Tutto è destinato a finire. Questa è l'essenziale fragilità del mondo.