"The end of THE END is the best place to begin THE END, because if you read THE END from the beginning of the beginning of THE END to the end of the end of THE END, you will arrive at the end."
— Lemony Snicket (The End)

"We've walked together down this winding road,
In search of something true. Together we grew.

But now our journey has come to an end,
And it's on to something new. For me and you.

So goodbye, my friend.
Until we meet again,
Some other day.
I know so much will change.
But looking back I can say,
I wouldn't change a day.
I hope you can say, I hope you can say
The same.

So many memories, we got to make,
The challenges we met. I'll never forget.

'Cause those lessons made us who we are today,
Now we're taking the next step. Without a regret.
No regret.

All I'm telling you (All I'm telling you)
'Til I get to the end. I would do it again. Do it again.
"
— Hoobastank

"The Great Stories are the one that you heard and want to hear again. The ones that you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet though you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t.In the Great stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again."
— Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things)

"The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable."
— Nietzche

"There’s a trick to the 'graceful exit.' It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over — and let it go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its validity or its past importance to our lives. It involves a sense of future, a belief that every exit line is an entry, that we are moving up, rather than out."
— Ellen Goodman

"The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending--the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending."
— Orson Scott Card

"And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness.

And they did live."
— Stephen King (The Dark Tower)

"An invisible fire scorched the bottoms of her hands, the feel reminding her of raw energy and stealth, and she tried to jerk away, unable to do so because the man held her in place. He would surely kill her now. No one touched a lion and lived to tell about it."
— From Predetermined Endings by Destiny Booze

"His glare snapped back on her with enough speed that she shrunk away from him. 'Make no mistake about me,' William said harshly. 'I'm not a good man! I'm a killer; I'm just one with an agency attached to my name.'"
— From Predetermined Endings by Destiny Booze

"A good man would help the two people in the limo because it was the right thing to do; a good man would turn himself in; a good man would beg for his job back; a good man would just let this case go and move on. William wasn't a good man, not anymore. He was on a mission."
— From Predetermined Endings by Destiny Booze

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."
— Carl Bard

"Endings to be useful must be inconclusive."
— Samuel R Delaney