Best Endings Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.”

“A horrible end is better than endless horror.”

“That's the thing they never tell you about love stories: just because one ends, that doesn't mean it failed. A cherry pie isn't a failure just because you eat it all. It's perfect for what it is, and then it's gone. And exchanging the truest parts of yourself--all the things you are--with someone? What a slice of life. One I'll carry with me into every single someday.”

“You’re just another story I can’t tell anymore.”

“Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adolescence and adulthood when everything feels raw and invigorating and scary-and why those feelings are all coming back to me now.”

“To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my mind, except in my dreams, where the aftertaste of her still lingers.”

“I could’ve sworn I was telling the truth when I told you I didn’t miss you.”

“Every ending writes the first chapter of something new.”

“Happy endings were too much for some people, false and cheap, but hope - hope was honest. Hope was good.”

“But there are no happy endings, because if things are happy they have not ended.”

“Not all boats which sail into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.”

“A person's destiny often ends before his death.”

“When a country is defeated, there remain only mountains and rivers, and on a ruined castle in spring only grasses thrive. I sat down on my hat and wept bitterly till I almost forgot time.”

“Do not wait until the near end of your life to realize that you have not fully lived to love.”

“Everything comes to an end. A good bottle of wine, a summer’s day, a long-running sitcom, one’s life, and eventually our species. The question for many of us is not that everything will come to an end but when. And can we do anything vaguely useful until it does?”

“Everything begins and ends. Every day and night, every concerto, every relationship, every life. Everything ends eventually.”

“Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.”

“I am almost a hundred years old; waiting for the end, and thinking about the beginning.”

“The splendid thing”

“Since when," he asked,”

“So for now,”

“Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past.”

“The beauty of life isn't the perfectioned moments or storybook endings; the beauty of life is when you fall flat on your face, the Lord picks you up, then you look around and cheer, after all, a merry heart is the medicine!”

“A moment’s beginning ends in a moment”

“The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow.”

“The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.”