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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.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Quotes by Orson Welles

Business, much like life, is not a movie, and not everyone gets to have a storybook ending.

Quotes by Om Malik

In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate.

Quotes by Noah Feldman

I enjoy a third act, and I like stories with ending. A lot of my frustration with serialized storytelling is a lot of shows don't have a third act. They have an endless second act, and then they find out...

Quotes by Nic Pizzolatto

I always like things to be as complicated as possible. I don't like an easy ending. I don't like when all the pieces get tied up. As a viewer who loves stories and storytelling, that annoys me.

Quotes by Miriam Shor

I could very well see myself ending my professional career at Kaiserslautern.

Quotes by Miroslav Klose

While most episodes have a beginning, middle, and an ending, finales on 'Game of Thrones' are just one ending after another after another, as each of the storylines needs to wrapped up or at least attended to in some way.

Quotes by Miguel Sapochnik

The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president.

Quotes by Michael Reagan

I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.

Quotes by Michael Ondaatje

I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.

Quotes by Michael Ondaatje

Whenever I have given lectures to a large audience before, I have always looked for an ending that gives a 'wow' feeling.

Quotes by May-Britt Moser

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

Quotes by Max Frisch

I got a lot out of 'Brothers & Sisters' and learnt some incredible things and I think it certainly had come to a natural ending, so it was definitely time to move on.

Quotes by Matthew Rhys

As a producer, it's not unusual to find yourself on the field, backstage, often with a camera crew and living with constant anxiety of accidentally ending up in the shot.

Quotes by Mary Pilon

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

Quotes by Mary Catherine Bateson

The Obama administration deserves credit for quickly ending the housing free fall. In particular, Obama empowered the Federal Housing Administration to ensure that households could find mortgages at low interest rates even during the worst phase of the financial panic.

Quotes by Mark Zandi

Al Qaeda's leaders seek to reverse what they claim are corrupt Islamic practices bookended by the Mongol invasions in 1256 and Ataturk's ending the caliphate in 1924. Theirs is a fight to turn Islam's clock back to the time of...

Quotes by Malcolm Nance

We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.

Quotes by Mahmoud Abbas

I thought my acting career was going to just last forever - and I didn't plan on it ending at 41, 42 years of age.

Quotes by Lorenzo Lamas

While I had no intention of ending the series after 'The Spellmans Strike Again,' I did close many doors in that book and, with the fifth one, I was opening a lot of doors and not finding anything behind them...

Quotes by Lisa Lutz

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.