Mallory Ortberg Quotes

I don't really have a problem saying good-bye to things. All things come to an end.

But whatever you've been today is already over.

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

Everything. Things you lost. Things you’re gonna lose. Everything. Here’s where it all ties together.

While I understand that all things must come to an end, whether it's a television advertisement or one's life or the world itself, it doesn't make it any easier to deal with.

I never look at things again once they're done.

I find that when I'm ready for something to end, I transition quickly. But when something ends before its time, I find it hard to move on.

It will be difficult to let go but it is going to happen sooner rather than later in my case.

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

Everything ends, people move on, they don't look back. It's how they should be.

I'm sort of in this rhythm where we want to make the most of the time we have, but when it's done it will be time for it to be done.

In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.

All things must end, and they do! You're only stuck in a place if you choose to stay stuck there.

Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well...In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.

We have this time to meet and do something, or just be together, and then we lose it and move to another kind of time, another kind of being, I guess. Those left behind must mourn, remember, and live on as we know.

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again.

I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between.

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

In every parting there is an image of death.

Like everyone else, I want to go on dancing forever, but I know the day is going to come when I will have to be doing something else.

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.