Quotes about end
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“That was all part of giving someone a piece of your heart; they ended up taking a whole chunk of your mind and reserving it all for themselves.”

Cecelia Ahern book If You Could See Me Now

Source: If You Could See Me Now

Heart, Parting

“We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.”

Eugene H. Peterson (1932–2018) American translator

Source: Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology

“The night crackled… Everything had turned to static electricity in the heat. I combed my hair to watch the sparks fly from the ends.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Flying, Night

“We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Love, Disappointment, Reality

“everyday is an oportunity to make a new happy ending………”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Happiness

“The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end… in the end it is our only ally.”

Joanne Greenberg book I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Source: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Secret

“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

Goodbye

“Do you ever do that thing where you lie in bed and you can't sleep so you end up writing out recent conversation you've had? So they look like a play?'

Well you should. It's fun. I keep them. Look through them, sometimes.”

Nick Hornby book How to Be Good

Source: How to Be Good

Lie, Sleep

“I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker

History, Happiness

“Even at the end of the road, read the first sentence, there is a road. Even at the end of the road, a new road stretches out, endless and open, a road that may lead anywhere. To him who will find it, there is always a road.”

D.J. MacHale (1955) American television director and producer

Source: Pendragon Before The War: Book Two Of The Travelers (Pendragon

Reading

“She is . . . the moon in my night sky. And that is the beginning, middle, and end of it. There is no more to be told than that, and never shall I speak of her again.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: The Shadows

Night

“There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.”

Brandon Sanderson The Wheel of Time

Source: A Memory of Light

Time

“Habit 1: Be Proactive
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Habit 3: Put First Things First
Habit 4: Think Win/Win
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
Habit 6: Synergize
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw”

Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Understanding, Thinking

“Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.”

Stephen King book The Stand

Source: The Stand (1978), p. 1153

Life

“You do the easy thing, the appealing thing, the peaceful thing, mostly it turns sour in the end. But if you take the hard path - ah, that's how you reap the sweet rewards. Duty. Sacrifice. They mean something.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

Peace

“At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around them, as around a stake.”

Anna Funder book All That I Am

Source: All That I Am

Love

“I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

Variant: I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.” - Margaret Thatcher

Way

“When you think you are in love, you don't want to know about the things that could end it.”

Luke Davies (1962) Australian writer

Source: Candy

Love, Thinking

“The end of art is peace.”

Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer

Peace, Art

“Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”

John Hodgman (1971) American humorist

Life, Pain, Sense

“He let her get almost all the way there, just staring, before he stumbled towards her. They ended in a rush and then fell to the ground together, arms locked around each other, each holding on as tightly as possible. Niether of them said a word.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Dark Reunion

Way

“There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.”

Isaac Asimov book The Gods Themselves

Section 3, Chapter 19, p. 287
Source: The Gods Themselves (1972)

History, Happiness

“What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist?”

Lynne Truss (1955) British writer

Source: Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

World, Support

“He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. "I'll save him, Meggie!" he wispered in her ear. "I'll bring Dustfinger back. This story will have a happy ending. I swear!”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkspell

Happiness

“I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Memory

“But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start.”

Jess Walter book Beautiful Ruins

Source: Beautiful Ruins

Life, People, Thinking, Waiting

“What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

Fools

“Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.”

Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic

Life, Hope, Feeling

“The sight of me puffing and straining apparently amused him to no end.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

“Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.”

Scott Snyder (1976) American writer

Source: American Vampire, Vol. 1

Lovers, Night

“Our ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death but a good life to the very end.”

Atul Gawande book Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Source: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Life, Death

“People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.”

Scott Westerfeld book Peeps

Source: Peeps

People

“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

“Any humane and reasonable person must conclude that if the ends, however desireable, are uncertain and the means are horrible and certain, these means must not be employed.”

Howard Zinn (1922–2010) author and historian

Source: Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice

Personality

“Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people”

Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic

Almansor: A Tragedy (1823), as translated in True Religion (2003) by Graham Ward, p. 142
Variant translations:
Wherever books are burned, men in the end will also burn.
Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people.
Where they burn books, they will also burn people.
It is there, where they burn books, that eventually they burn people.
Where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn human beings.
Where they burn books, they also burn people.
Them that begin by burning books, end by burning men.
Variant: Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

People, Books

“The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book."

(, 3 October 1892)”

A.E. Housman (1859–1936) English classical scholar and poet

Source: Selected Prose

Books, Reading

“Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to”

James Patterson book Sundays at Tiffany's

Source: Sundays at Tiffany's

Life, Way

“I'm not perfect, either. In the end, it's only God's judgement that matters, and I've learned enough to know that no one can presume to know the will of God.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

God, Learning, Perfection

“The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.”

Thomas Merton book The Seven Storey Mountain

Source: The Seven Storey Mountain (1948)
Context: Indeed, the truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers the most: and his suffering comes to him from things so little and so trivial that one can say that it is no longer objective at all. It is his own existence, his own being, that is at once the subject and the source of his pain, and his very existence and consciousness is his greatest torture.

Fear, Suffering, Hurt

“No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or might not bring a hail storm, plane crash, poetic justice, or a miraculous reversal.”

Nicole Krauss book Great House

Source: Great House

Justice, Waiting

“Jamie: You know what I figured out today?
Landon: What?
Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I had for myself. Like this journey never ends. Like you were sent to me because I'm sick. To help me through all this. You're my angel.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Variant: Maybe God has a bigger plan for me that i had for myself,
likes, this journey never ends,
likes, you were sent to me because I'm sick, to help me through all this,
you're my angel!
Source: A Walk to Remember

God, Angels, Help

“No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.”

Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman

Speech at Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Washington, D.C. (22 October 1883).
1880s, Speech at the Civil Rights Mass Meeting (1883)
Variant: No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

“In every end, there is also a beginning.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

Good Night

“To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

Life

“He was like some wild, untamed creature that you could keep and feed for a time, but in the end you knew you'd have to let it go for its own sake as well as yours.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Night Embrace

Source: Night Embrace

Time

“But it was an ending.”

Robert Jordan The Wheel of Time

Source: A Memory of Light

“…In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.”

Dan Brown book Angels & Demons

Source: Angels & Demons

Truth, Search

“Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for awhile.”

Salman Rushdie Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Source: Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Happiness

“The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

Source: UnWholly

Suffering

“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”

James Joyce book The Dead

Dubliners (1914)
Variant: His soul swooned softly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
Source: "The Dead"
Context: Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

Soul, Universe, Dead