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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 ending of irrational fantasies is always going to come as a rude jolt.

Quotes by Dominic Grieve

The idea of viewers getting invested in a series is that you're getting invested in the reality of these characters' lives that, in fact, don't have an ending.

Quotes by Darren Star

I love the ending of 'The Wrestler.'

Quotes by Damien Chazelle

I think 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy has a very satisfying ending, and there's not really that deep of a mythological construct.

Quotes by Damon Lindelof

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Quotes by Conrad Aiken

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.

Quotes by Colin Quinn

Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.

Quotes by Christopher Love

I don't disagree with ending Congress' retirement program. I'm a governor; I don't have a retirement program in my state, and I don't disagree with that.

Quotes by Chris Christie

It's not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my characters to have hope - and that's what I do with all my stories.

Quotes by Cecelia Ahern

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

Quotes by Casey Stoner

I used to get so many letters from students about the ending of 'Pro Femina.' So I had a stamp made that said 'irony, irony, irony' to put on a postcard and mail it back.

Quotes by Carolyn Kizer

In general, the hedge funds were clobbered by the 1969 bear market, ending up in many cases with records that were worse than those put together by aggressive mutual funds denied the luxury of short sales.

Quotes by Carol Loomis

I can't say that the ending of a story is always the best part of the story, and yet there's sort of this implicit idea that the finale is somehow supposed to be the mind-blowing best episode of a show....

Quotes by Carlton Cuse

The queer community deserves a happy ending just as much as anybody else.

Quotes by Camille Perri

Actors are always nervous about not only hurting each other, but maybe perhaps hitting each other's face and ending one's career.

Quotes by Bryce Dallas Howard

I've never heard of a comedy that hasn't had reshoots, especially for the ending of a movie in a comedy.

Quotes by Bradley Cooper

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

Quotes by Bob Woodward

A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.

Quotes by Bobby Bowden

I live in constant anticipation of good stuff. It's not being 'Pollyanna' about things, but most stories don't have the ending we would give them right away. The better endings come later.

Quotes by Bob Goff

I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to...

Quotes by Billy Collins

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.