297 Quotes About Endings

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.

Estranged mountains bulged under the sky, the big sky, the endless sky. Anyway, no one could see an end to it, which reassured her, since so much seemed to be coming to an end. It felt that way.But it seemed impossible---the universe dropping off, ending, there would be an end, and then there would be nothing, a no more, a vacuum of no more. Her imagination couldn’t let her go there.

Have we ever considered that God is so enraptured with beginnings that He permits the pain of endings so that we can experience the exhilaration of beginnings?

As I witness the dead of beloved ones, it makes be become more conscious that life indeed has an end.

Without a beginning I am pouring the whole of my existence into the building of endings, while the cross and the resurrection declare that God is incessantly building beginnings from the collapse of endings.

If I’m only looking at an ending, I’ll assume that an ending is all that there is. And without a doubt, that kind of assumption is the beginning of the end.

Life is so utterly enraptured with beginnings that it can do little else than perpetually create space for them. And those spaces are what we call endings.

Maybe I don’t have enough beginnings in my life because I fought against the endings that were about to birth those beginnings.

To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my mind, except in my dreams, where the aftertaste of her still lingers.