Ending Quotes
103 quotes
"I'm guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I'm done, I'm done."
"It was a hurting tune, resigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind to say goodbye."
"He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder."
"But as long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential."
"A breeze blows up, touching my cheek like a little child's kiss. It flutters a piece of paper. "Trash, out there? Must belong to one of us."We move closer, and when I reached for it, I find...... a perfect paper airplane."
"A moment’s beginning ends in a moment"
"I'm still looking for someoneWho said they were here for me,And I thought I was once there for you.But when troubles are nearer than friends,And the road comes to an end,What could I do?I wish I could fly away like you."
"A breeze blows up, touching my cheek like a little child's kiss. It flutters a piece of paper. "Trash, out there? Must belong to one of us." We move closer, and when I reached for it, I find...... a perfect paper airplane."
"We met at a cross-roads in life,But we were going different directions.We were part of each other's lives,But only for a moment.The first person that you meet in lifeWon't necessarily be the one who's forever.Just look at you and me,And it's not hard to see thatThis is the moment before life goes on.We are still friends;We are still really good friends.Please tell me that you agree.But I'm not the one for you,And you just can't see yourself with me."
"If I am brave enough to stand against those who have been groomed by fear, I will recognize that where I get knocked down is all about where life begins, and has nothing to do with where it ends."
"When a friendship ends, people don't always give it the same amount of thought that they do relationships ... most of the time, friendships end in a different way - slowly, and without declarations. Usually people don't really notice until a friend has been gone for a while and then they just say they grew apart, or their lives became too different."
"And then I walked out, straight through the twilight, treading the beaten earth. There were no dust clouds, no signs of anyone, but I paid no mind. I was my own lucky hand of solitaire. The desert landscape unchanging: a long, unwinding scroll that I would one day amuse myself by filling. I'm going to remember everything and then I'm going to write it all down. An aria to a coat. A requiem for a café. That's what I was thinking, in my dream, looking down at my hands."
"Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds."
Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
"The biggest life change any man would ever experience was the ending of it."
"The two of us in that room. No past, no future. All intense deep that-time-only. A feeling that everything must end, the music, ourselves, the moon, everything. That if you get to the heart of things you find sadness for ever and ever, everywhere; but a beautiful silver sadness, like a Christ face."
"Art, and sadness, which last forever."
"We hide our demons so good, that the angels we show, bare the shame on their faces."
"A little pain now and then is normal;The wounds will heal, and then we'll be okay.Life goes on, but not forever,So why should we?"
"Although I’ve been thoroughly conditioned by pain to see it otherwise, an ending is nothing more than the backside of a beginning."
"An ending is only happening because at some point it was a beginning. And if an ending is dependent upon a beginning, I would be well advised to focus on the miracle of beginnings verses the pain of endings."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"Timaset didn’t need a ship – especially not a flying museum piece! And as far as he knew, a dodgy plasma injector could drop you smack into a wormhole ending somewhere on the other side of the universe with no way back. Well, he could always sell the damn thing. Couldn’t he? He could use the money. Damn, he could always use the money! Maybe the crew would want to buy it over from him?"
"Life without flying unconditionally,life with hindered and heartless ending."
"Daemon clung to Surreal as she flew along the Winds, too weak to argue, too spent to care. His heart, however... His heart held on fiercely to Jaenelle's soft, sighing caress of his name.Everything has a price."
"A picture of the world, nothing more than a casting stone set in the heavens, intruded on Errol's dismay. World without end. Was Illustra, their entire world, nothing more than a lot for the ultimate reader, too small and insignificant a thing to care about?"
"I don't know what happened. Disease? War? Social collapse? Or was it just us? The Dead replacing the Living? I guess it's not so important. Once you've arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which route you took."
"Since the world is ending,” Peter quoted from behind us, “why not let the children touch the paintings?"
"The hard part wasn’t breaking up. The hard part is forcing myself to fall out of love with you."
"We must make tough decisions to see if it’s worth it in the end."
"I don't expect congratulations for successful beginning, what I want is the applaud at successful ending."
"But one day, when Toby is old enough, I will take down a shoe box from a shelf where it is kept, and I will tell him again the story of his sister, Isabel Margaret Cavendish, the girl who came before."
"And with a massive roar the fifth wall comes down and the house of fiction falls, taking Viola and Sunny and Bertie with it. They melt into thin air and disappear. Pouf!"
"This is it. This is how I always saw heaven, always by the sea, always by night, always in the dark."
"We know the end is overrated, we'll become the walls we raise. We don't believe enough, but we still care."
"As long as you’re breathing, your story’s still going."
"You have no control over how your story begins or ends. But by now, you should know that all things have an ending. Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. Every flower returns to sleep with the earth. The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimateart."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"When someone puts an end to something, it doesn't mean that he gave up, it means that thing is not taking him anywhere."
"Everything created has a beginning, Destiny of the Endless...as everything created has an end."
"In the midst of life’s ups and down, beginnings and endings, let us live our life, let us be joyful, let us be happy."
"There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything else has ended and nothing else can ever begin."
"Remember if it's not happy then it's not the end so babe keep fighting, you'll win this war."
"Just cuz you get to the end doesn’t mean you know what happened."
"The only trust required is to know that when there is one ending there will be another beginning."
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
"He loved her. And she loved him. And in such bliss does devastation grow."
"All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination.And this one is Teddy's."
"they say that girls are the ones who want fairy tail endings, but then again, who are the authors of fairy tales? mostly men..."
"Begin each day with the hope of ending it with the bests of your steps. Plan the day ahead and ensure that the plans are worthy of ensuring your dreams are achieved. Get started."
"Remember no matter how fast you run, you can't be the winner if you don't finish. As someone said, to be the first to finish, you must finish first! Go, take the strike!"
"The Christmas story is penmanship of the most brilliant sort, where God crafted a beginning that would never be subject to an ending."
"To realize your potential you must look beyond the end of yourself, realizing that where you end is most likely where you actually begin."
"When did the world begin and how?"I asked a lamb, a goat, a cow:"What's it all about and why?"I asked a hog as he went by:"Where will the whole thing end, and when?"I asked a duck, a goose, a hen:And I copied all the answers too,A quack, a honk, an oink, a moo."
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