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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.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

Quotes by Jim Henson

Such a thing as ending unemployment would never occur to Washington politicians because their corporate backers depend on the threat of unemployment to keep wages down.

Quotes by Jill Stein

Endings are really hard to do, and it's hard to do an ending where it's sort of collaborative with thousands and thousands of people, and to satisfy all those people is impossible.

Quotes by Jennifer Hale

I pretty much started the lyrics and I hit a roadblock and I think Kerry finished them up. Then I came back and did the ending part. The whole 'Raining Blood.' That part. But it pretty much came together easy....

Quotes by Jeff Hanneman

When I left university with a history degree, I had no idea what I wanted to do, and I was terrified of accidentally ending up in the wrong career.

Quotes by Jane Fallon

I can make something for a long time and just not come up with an ending. It's finishing things that I don't enjoy.

Quotes by Jamie xx

I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending.

Quotes by Jamaica Kincaid

My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

Quotes by Jack Whitehall

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

Quotes by J. R. R. Tolkien

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

J.K. Rowling

Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.

Quotes by J. B. Pritzker

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

Quotes by Igor Stravinsky

A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games.

Quotes by Howard Staunton

'Not Another Happy Ending' is a romantic comedy starring Karen Gillan and Stanley Weber. It is about these two characters and their relationships.

Quotes by Henry Ian Cusick

In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.

Quotes by Henrietta Szold

The sudden ending of a White House career all seems so unceremonious for aides who have personally sacrificed a lot - and sometimes even bent their conscience - to do the president's bidding.

Quotes by Helen Thomas

The movie 'Vacation' had a whole different ending. They never even got to the amusement park, Wallyworld, at the end of 'Vacation.' The last 20 minutes of the film was entirely different - and bombed so badly that the audience...

Quotes by Harold Ramis

I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career.

Quotes by Harold Budd

In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.

Quotes by Gustav Mahler

Creating mechanisms for ending deforestation and promoting regeneration of the environment is one of the most effective ways of achieving net-zero emissions.

Quotes by Guilherme Leal

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.