Quotes about Endings

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

The end of a matter is better than the beginning, and a patient spirit is better than a proud one.

but something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was sure that this was the person with whom she wanted to spend the rest of her life. After a long time, she came to the conclusion that men brought only pain, frustration, suffering and a sense of time dragging.

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.

I cannot put words to the feelings within me on the day we brought her out for burial. It is an odd thing to stand so close to life's beginning and life's end. Birth and death are such strange cousins. We carried my mother to the graveyard, shed tears and sang hymns, then returned home, stood over the cradle, smiled, and sang lullabies. . . .

If you could know —if you could always know —when the lasts in life are coming, you'd handle them differently. You'd savor. You'd stop. You'd let nothing else invade the moment.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.

The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.

We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.

Sometimes relationships grow stronger through conflict; other times relationships end.

Instead of telling yourself you can't have the happy ending, why don't you let go of all your dreams—and your fears—and let God show you how it ends. He's the master of happy endings—let him figure it out." She

Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.