The Surrey batsman, who quit Test cricket in 2015 with 12,400 runs, is fifth on the record-breaking rundown of Test run scorers, averaging 57.40 in 134 Tests.
"You attempt to battle the inescapable however you have to stretch out while you're beyond," the 39-year-old told the BBC on Monday.
"It's the last time I'll play a four-day amusement here. I'll be 40 in a couple of months, this is about the finish of my time in area cricket."
And in addition his Test misuses, Sangakkara has been one of the diversion's extraordinary restricted overs batsmen and was a piece of the Sri Lanka group that came to the 2007 and 2011 World Cup finals, despite the fact that they lost to Australia and India individually.
His Twenty20 duties will take him through to 2018, yet his time in the more extended arrangement is practically over.
"My vocation may have a couple of more months (left) yet that is about it," he included.
Having joined Surrey for the 2015 season, Sangakkara is still in great frame. He scored more than 1,000 top of the line runs last term and hit two centuries against Middlesex at the end of the week however felt it was still time to leave.
"The greatest slip-up that occasionally you can make is that you believe you're superior to anything you truly are," he said.
"Cricketers, or any kind of sportsperson, have an expiry date and you have to leave.
"I have been extremely fortunate to play for whatever length of time that I did as such however there's significantly more life to be lived far from the diversion."
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