297 Quotes About Endings

True, it's not over till it's over. And even when it's over, it just begins again.

Little beginnings sometimes have great endings.

The beginning is the best time to think about the end!

Ah, Sam, sighs Tom Spring to himself. These are your beginnings. And in your beginnings, my end! Oh how the recollections connect, each to each, as links in a chain!

Happy endings depend on your point of view! (When the right thing seems wrong, the wrong thing may not be right either.)

Today’s ashes are tomorrow’s soil.

Hesse's Stage came to Perdu's mind. Most people were familiar with the first line, of course: "In all beginnings dwells a magic force..." but very few people know the ending: "For guarding us and helping us to live." And hardly anyone realized that Hesse wasn't talking about new beginnings. He meant a readiness to bid farewell. Farewell to old habits, Farwell to illusions. Farewell to a long-expired life, in which one was nothing but a husk, rustled by the occasional sigh.

Those are such beautiful words aren't they? Happy ending?" Lilly says. They are. They so are. But after all she's seen, Nash doesn't know if she believes in those particular words. She believes in something intricate and thorny, she thinks then. What she believes is that the story goes on.

Sometimes ends are in fact beginnings; beginnings ends.