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Ending Quotes

How things wrap up matters as much as how they start.

One line describes how hard it is to narrate a tale whose grim outcome the viewer can already guess, while another insists on still expecting a happy conclusion despite setbacks. Related reflections continue in our Closure collection.

The first Romanov ruler was just 16 when he was crowned Tsar Michael I in Moscow in 1613, thus ending the 'Time of Troubles' sparked by Ivan the Terrible's death.

Quotes by Saul David

I've been a radio reporter for ten years, and if I learned anything from my time at 'This American Life,' it's how to craft a narrative so that even if the ending is ambiguous, it is somehow satisfying.

Quotes by Sarah Koenig

I'm upset that 'Dastaan' is ending. After working so hard, to see it end abruptly is painful.

Quotes by Sanjeeda Sheikh

Part of any solution to get our economy going should include steps to free up our small businesses by peeling back unnecessarily burdensome regulations, ending the continual threats of tax hikes, and addressing the cloud of federal debt that hangs...

Quotes by Sam Graves

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

Quotes by Roland Barthes

Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.

Quotes by Robert W. Service

The American Dream - that's our folly. That's our folly. Look where we're ending up.

Quotes by Robert Indiana

It's hard to close people out, regardless whether you're sweeping them or ending the series, period. It's hard.

Quotes by Robert Horry

Doing 'YHA' felt as if I was shooting for a film because it was a love story with a definite ending and good script.

Quotes by Rithvik Dhanjani

Either you're for ending Citizens United, or you're not. So, if you're for ending Citizens United, then act like you are against corporations influencing our democratic process.

Quotes by Rashida Tlaib

If you're successful, 'Blue Shift' has what many have called the most satisfying 'Half-Life' ending yet.

Quotes by Randy Pitchford

I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.

Quotes by Ralph Bakshi

In truth, ending DACA will cost us tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic activity.

Quotes by Raja Krishnamoorthi

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

Quotes by Rafael Correa

Everyone in the book's ecology, starting with the author and including the publisher, the distributor, the booksellers, the libraries, and ending up with the reader, should benefit from a healthy book trade.

Quotes by Philip Pullman

I am not satisfied with the ending of 'Mount Eerie' the album, so maybe by calling myself that, I am attempting to elaborate on the ending.

Quotes by Phil Elverum

You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody.

Quotes by Paul Feig

We all have different thresholds for sentimentality. For me, it's a hard won happy ending.

Quotes by Paul Bettany

I believe in picking a strong ending.

Quotes by Patrick J. Adams

I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.

Quotes by Patricia Ireland

A broader entry frames ending inequality as work requiring sustained, systemic effort rather than any single fix. Explore more in our Memories and Past pages.