53 Inspirational End Quotes

In the journey of life, every ending heralds a new beginning, often bringing with it a wealth of wisdom, reflection, and inspiration. Whether it's the conclusion of a chapter, the end of a challenging endeavor, or the closing of a significant period, endings offer us moments to pause, contemplate, and find solace in the lessons learned. To inspire you in these pivotal moments, we've curated a collection of the top 53 Inspirational End Quotes. Each quote is a testament to the beauty of closure and the promise of new horizons, offering words of encouragement and profound insights to help you embrace every ending with grace and optimism.

1. “It's better to burn out than to fade away.” - Neil Young

2. “From too much love of livingFrom hope and fear set free,We thank with brief thanksgivingWhatever gods may beThat no life lives for ever;That dead men rise up never;That even the weariest riverWinds somewhere safe to sea.Then star nor sun shall waken,Nor any change of light:Nor sound of waters shaken,Nor any sound or sight:Nor wintry leaves nor vernal,Nor days nor things diurnal;Only the sleep eternalIn an eternal night.” - Algernon Charles Swinburne

3. “Seek for the Sword that was brokenIn Imladris it dwells;There shall be counsels takenStronger than Morgul-spells.There shall be shown a tokenThat Doom is near at hand,For Isuldur's Bane shall waken,And the halfling forth shall stand.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

4. “I am an old man, and I am dying...Will you remember me, Jacob?"I promise, one day, I will join you, Mr. Gold."Mr. Gold's laughter sounded like a trumpet and brought light to the corners of the room.” - Noah BenShea

5. “In the end we're all just chalk lines on the concrete Drawn only to be washed away For the time that I've been given I am what I am” - Five Finger Death Punch

6. “And I know I’ve lost.Everything is lost.Everything is over.“As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,” the Mayor says, holding out his hands as if to show me the world for the first time,” let me be the very first to welcome you to its new capital city.”“Todd?” Viola whispers, her eyes closed.I hold her tightly to me.“I’m sorry,” I whisper to her. “I’m so sorry.”We’ve run right into a trap.We’ve run right off the end of the world.“Welcome,” says the Mayor,” to the New Prentisstown.” - Patrick Ness

7. “I will fight untill the end” - Breaking Benjamin

8. “Death isn't the end, it's the beginning.” - Jennifer Love Hewitt

9. “I may not have any power over it at the moment, but at some point that must change. I can be very patient. I am the end of all things, nephew mine. I shall be the last. When birth has ended, I wil cut Clotho's cord, and she will be no more. The time will come when every last thread has been measured, and I will snip Lachesis from the great weave. In the end only Death and I will remain. Then I will cut his thread, and it will be me alone. With my last strength I will close the shears on my own life. I am the end of everything, including you.” - Kelly McCullough

10. “The world began in hazard and will end in it.” - John Fowles

11. “Full emergency power to the engines. Ram the Blade ship.” - Katherine Alice Applegate

12. “Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. "Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cursed this power. I've both enjoyed and misused it. And I've hidden it away. Now I must try to wield it correctly, to marry it to a purpose and hope that is enough.” - Libba Bray

13. “At dawn of man, many words of inspiration.At the end, there will be words of revelation.” - Toba Beta

14. “Chin up, Ferdinand," I kept saying to myself, to keep up my courage. "What with being chucked out of everywhere, you're sure to find whatever it is that scares all those bastards so. It must be at the end of the night, and that's why they're so dead set against going to the end of the night.” - Louis-Ferdinand Celine

15. “Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.” - Haruki Murakami

16. “The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.” - Darin Strauss

17. “...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed.Nerve endings; he'd said they were the problem [causing phantom pain in the amputated limb]." Things that cut off, that ended abruptly or died--like parents and marriages--kept hurting forever.” - Kristin Hannah

18. “In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, "Is this all?” - Thomas Harris

19. “The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.” - Ralph Ellison

20. “Maggie squeezes my hand. It’s a silent message that everything will be okay. Somehow I believe her. In the end everything will be okay. But hurdles have to be jumped through first.” - Simone Elkeles

21. “Promise me you’ll marry me. Not now. Someday. Because I need to know.”Claire felt a flutter inside, like a bird trying to fly, and a rush of heat that made her dizzy. And something else, something fragile as a soap bubble,and just as beautiful. Joy, in the middle of all this horror and heartbreak.“Yes,” she whispered back. “I promise.”And she kissed him, and kissed him, and kissed him, while the sun came up and bathed Morganville in one last, shining day.” - Rachel Caine

22. “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” - Herbert Stein

23. “He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster, the last gasp.” - J. R. R. Tolkien

24. “Life starts from a white hole and ends in a black hole.” - Santosh Kalwar

25. “But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?” - Franz Kafka

26. “Mary believes she was put on earth to bring an end to the living world.”Both Nick and Mikey just stared at her.“What do you mean … end?” asked Mikey.“End means end. Complete and total destruction. She wants to kill everyone and everything. She wants to bring down every building, burn every forest, empty every ocean of life. She wants to turn the earth into a dead planet …” - Neal Shusterman

27. “Well, this is basically the end, so the answers should be in these next few pages. I doubt they will surprise you, but you never know. I don't know how smart or thick you are. You could be Albert Einstein for all I know, or some literary prizewinner, or maybe you're just middle of the road like me.” - Markus Zusak

28. “Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.” - Suzanne Collins

29. “I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that ended our last conversation. It's as if he's speaking the words again. "Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had agreed not to lie to each other."He's right. We did.The point of my arrow shifts upward. I release the string. And President Coin collapses over the side of the balcony and plunges to the ground. Dead.” - Suzanne Collins

30. “I think about going to the lake, but I'm so weak that I barely make it to mymeeting place with Gale. I sit on the rock where Cressida filmed us, but it's too wide without his body beside me.Several times I close my eyes and count to ten, thinking that when I open them, he will have materialized without a sound as he so often did. I have to remind myself that Gale's in 2 with a fancy job, probably kissing another pairof lips.” - Suzanne Collins

31. “I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of cancer. I hated my life. I was tired and bored with my job and my furniture, and I couldn’t see any way to change things.Only end them.” - Chuck Palahniuk

32. “To dance to fey music is the beginning of the end.” - Kate McCafferty

33. “Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.” - Daphne du Maurier

34. “Glaring at the Gasman, ter Borcht said, “Your time is coming to an end, youpathetic failure of an experiment. Vhat you say now is how you vill beremembered.”Gazzy’s blue eyes flashed. “Then you can remember me telling you to kissmy-”“Enough!” ter Borcht said.” - James Patterson

35. “At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.” - Warsan Shire

36. “And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.” - Erin Morgenstern

37. “You get towards the end of life—no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of change in that life. You are allowed a long moment of pause, time enough to ask the question: what else have I done wrong?” - Julian Barnes

38. “Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true.” - Stephen King

39. “End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

40. “And then, a strangely comforting thought trickled through me—I had nothing, so I could do anything now. Anything I wanted. I had nothing left to lose.” - Rachel Ward

41. “We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening.” - Rachel Ward

42. “However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the end.” - Rachel Ward

43. “Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.” - Dejan Stojanovic

44. “Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.” - Dejan Stojanovic

45. “Why should I fear death?If I am, then death is not.If Death is, then I am not.Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?Long time men lay oppressed with slavish fear.Religious tyranny did domineer.At length the mighty one of GreeceBegan to assent the liberty of man.” - Epicurus

46. “You act as if I were your enemy.“You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.”And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?“There is no need to hasten that end,” Vin said. “No reason to force it.”All things are subject to their own nature, Vin, Ruin said, seeming to flow around her. She could feel its touch on her—wet and delicate, like mist. You cannot blame me for what I am. Without me, nothing would end. Nothing could end. And therefore, nothing could grow. I am life. Would you fight life itself?Vin fell silent.Do not mourn because the day of this world’s end has arrived, Ruin said. That end was ordained the very day of the world’s conception. There is a beauty in death—the beauty of finality, the beauty of completion.For nothing is truly complete until the day it is finally destroyed.” - Brandon Sanderson

47. “The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result.” - Sebastian Fitzek

48. “Truth, meanwhile, was a weaponthat even a damaged fist could still grasp and wield. It was a remarkably versatile commodity; it could be traded, or help serve an end, or produce aprofit.” - Mark Allen Smith

49. “Go on till you come to the end; then stop.” - Lewis Carroll

50. “Good thing or bad thing must surely come to an end but absoluety nothing last forever” - Maryann

51. “When things go well for days on end, it is an hilarious accident.” - Kurt Vonnegut

52. “I've been trying to fit everything in, trying to get to the end before it's too late, but I see now how badly I've deceived myself. Words do not allow such things. The closer you come to the end, the more there is to say. The end is only imaginary, a destination you invent to keep yourself going, but a point comes when you realize you will never get there. You might have to stop, but that is only because you have run out of time. You stop, but that does not mean you have come to an end.” - Paul Auster

53. “Dans chaque fin, il y a un début.” - Libba Bray