Ending Quotes - page 3

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything. (Nicolas Chamfort)
In this crazy mirror of terror and art a pseudo-quotation made up of obscure Shakespeareanisms (Chapter Three) somehow produces, despite its lack of literal meaning, the blurred diminutive image of the acrobatic performance that so gloriously supplies the bravura ending for the next chapter. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Oswald Cabal: Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for Man, no rest and no ending. He must go on, conquest beyond conquest. First, this little planet and its winds and ways. And then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him. Then the planets about him, and, at last, out across immensity to the stars. And when he has conquered all the depths of space, and all the mysteries of time, still he will be beginning... View quote
H. G. Wells
A bad beginning makes a bad ending. View quote
Euripides
No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to. View quote
Robert Smith (musician)
If you own this story you get to write the ending. View quote
Brené Brown
So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship. View quote
Donna Rice
I find that life is easier when it is just a blur With no details to confuse who or what or where I was So when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure. View quote
Conor Oberst
It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome. View quote
Huston Smith
History is replete with examples of what happens when any group of authorities do not have to answer to empirical evidence but are free to define truth as they see fit. None of the examples has a happy ending. Why should it be otherwise with therapy? (Robert Todd Carroll)
Every real story is a never ending story. View quote
Michael Ende
Ending is better than mending. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Last, but not least -- in fact, this is most important -- you need a happy ending. However, if you can create tragic situations and jerk a few tears before the happy ending, it will work much better. View quote
Satyajit Ray
I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
I used to feel defensive when people would say, 'Yes, but your books have happy endings', as if that made them worthless, or unrealistic. Some people do get happy endings, even if it's only for a while. I would rather never be published again than write a downbeat ending. View quote
Marian Keyes
People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of. View quote
Nellie Bly
The saddest part of a broken heart Isn't the ending so much as the start The tragedy starts from the very first spark Losing your mind for the sake of your heart. View quote
Raymond E. Feist
In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it. View quote
Rose Tremain
What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year. (Scott Westerfeld)
Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative. View quote
Tim Robbins
Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I already said in the very first line how it was my favorite in all the world. But there's a lot of bad stuff coming. View quote
William Goldman
It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak. View quote
Walter Jon Williams
True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story. View quote
Frances Hardinge