“I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”

“I want not to panic. I want to be comfortable in my body and my life. I don't want to keep thinking that I don't belong here, that I have ended up on the wrong planet, completely alienated.”

Mike Oldfield (1953) English musician, multi-instrumentalist

“If you don't do anything, you simply end up overwhelmed by something happening.”

Matsuri Hino Japanese manga artist

“I don't want to end up in the gutter punctured by machine gun slugs.”

Al Capone (1899–1947) American gangster

“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.”

Robert Smith (musician) (1959) English singer, songwriter and musician

“True stories seldom have endings.
I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.”

Frances Hardinge book Fly by Night

“I don't want to be the joke of the world, and I don't want to be thought of as another Hitler swallowing up people.”

Abd al-Karim Qasim (1914–1963) Prime Minister of Iraq

“I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.”

Fannie Flagg book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything”

John Updike book Rabbit Redux

“If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club