297 Quotes About Endings

A sunset is nothing more and nothing less than the backside of a sunrise.

An end is only a beginning in disguise.

The fearthat all thiswill end.The fearthat it won’t.

Although I am far too frequently convinced otherwise, with God a dead-end is only the death of an end.

Boundaries have to be continuously sealed off, but it's a hopeless job, for everything touches everything else in this world. A beginning never disappears, not even with an ending.

It’s hard to say where a story begins and ends. You have to draw an arbitrary line somewhere. Somewhere between perception and reality. Between what is spoken and what is heard. Between what is written and what is edited out. I know this, you can’t have an ending without a beginning. Even if they are really just random pieces of the middle that tend to stand out. Staccato notes on the page. Points on a circle.

Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.

In life, there are no true beginnings or endings. Events flow into each other, and the more you try to isolate them in a container, the more they spill over the sides, like canal-water breaching its artificial banks. A related point is that the things we label 'beginnings' and 'endings' are often, in reality, indistinguishable. They are one and the same thing. This is one of the things the Death card symbolizes in tarot - an end that is also a new beginning.

Every ending is a beginning. We just don't know it at the time.