Top 100 Beginning And Ending Quotes
#1. A relationship is like a holiday from loneliness, beginning and ending in the same airport. The most awful thing about the end is that it reminds you so clearly of the beginning with the joy with which you set off. Everything is the same, yet everything has been inverted by grief.
Louis Buss
#2. As a phenomenon, life has a beginning and ending, but life itself doesn't. So, which one is truly me - a phenomenon that lasts only between birth and death, or life itself that underlies all phenomena?
Ilchi Lee
#3. The particular way he had of structuring his paragraphs, beginning and ending each with a joke that wasn't really a joke, but an insult cloaked in a silken cape.
Hanya Yanagihara
#4. The beginning and ending of the secret of handling Arabs is unremitting study of them.
T.E. Lawrence
#5. Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility.
Nicole Ari Parker
#6. In a way, our stories have the same beginning and ending -- we all are born, and we all die. What happens in the middle sets us apart.
Shon Mehta
#7. The old woman's voice echoed through his mind, like she'd been lurking in the shadows as the centuries passed, just waiting.
'A woman with violet eyes will signal the beginning and ending of your life.
Lisa Kessler
#8. Generosity, generosity, generosity, must be the beginning and ending of our life
Cornelia Connelly
#9. It is not easy to speak of people and land in simple terms beginnings with a beginning and ending with an end.
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
#10. All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.
Jeet Thayil
#11. You realize time isn't just a period that you tell a story within - it becomes a major character in the film. There is no beginning, middle, end because there is always stuff beginning and ending simultaneously.
Feist
#12. There are others. There will be others. Other heroes, other heroines. Other prophecies to fulfill, other adversaries to despise. There will be stories told and forgotten, and reinvented anew until one day, perhaps, the oldest are remembered, and the beginning may end, and the ending begin.
Jacqueline Carey
#13. It is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye and indefatigable feet, will find in her travels all the Londons she has ever met in the pages of books, one atop the other, like the strata of the Earth.
Anna Quindlen
#14. The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#15. The end of the idyll was implicit in the beginning: I at least knew that, though you might not. And also that the more enchanted the idyll the greater must be the pain of its ending. That won't endure. Hearts don't really break, you know.
Georgette Heyer
#16. Worship seals all prayers at the front and at the back. Always pray with praise beginning and praise ending.
David Jeremiah
#17. It's often the case that the most strained moments in books are the very beginning and the very end - the getting in and the getting out. The ending, especially: it's awkward, as if the writer doesn't know when the book is over and nervously says it all again.
Robert Gottlieb
#18. Saying my story makes me want to change it, make it sound pretty the way I do with the stories I tell the workers. I'd like it to have a beginning as grand as a ball and an ending in a whisper, like a mother tucking in a child for sleep.
Shannon Hale
#19. All reading was done in the early years out loud, there was no such thing as silent reading because you had to read out loud in order to figure out you know, where was a word ending and where is the word beginning.
Nicholas G. Carr
#20. So the world ended.
And the next one began.
They were infinite.
They were the beginning and the ending; they were eternity.
Sarah J. Maas
#21. Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.
Robin Hobb
#22. A tragi-comedy, telling of an impoverished minister's desperate attempts to gain money by any means, beginning with a mercenary marriage and ending with sorcery. I should think it might be received very well. I believe I shall call it, ' Tis Pity She's a Corpse.
Susanna Clarke
#23. It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn.
Ken Burns
#24. The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.
Jack Vance
#25. Truly Time is a vast Denful of Horrour, round about which a Serpent winds and in the winding bites itself by the Tail. Now, now is the Hour, every Hour, every part of an Hour, every Moment, which in its end does begin again and never ceases to end: a beginning continuing, always ending.
Peter Ackroyd
#26. An ending is only happening because at some point it was a beginning. And if an ending is dependent upon a beginning, I would be well advised to focus on the miracle of beginnings verses the pain of endings.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#27. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.
Lemony Snicket
#28. You're right, Manon. It is all still there. The times we spent together are immortal, imperishable, and life never stops. The death of our loved ones is merely a threshold between an ending and a new beginning.
Nina George
#29. I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.
Gracie Allen
#30. When you begin, you envision a better end but, when you get to the end, you see the beginning better!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#32. We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be?
Mitch Albom
#33. Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson
#34. The world has an ending and a beginning. It begins with you and it ends with you. The end of the world occurs when you make a major transition in attention.
Frederick Lenz
#35. I, Kotoko Aihara ... Now Kotoko Irie ... have finally become Irie-kun's wife. And though this may seem like a happy ending, it is actually more of a happy beginning.
Kaoru Tada
#36. Just look for a strong beginning and a strong ending and get moving.
Chip Heath
#37. I think probably everybody works most on the beginning and the ending.
William Monahan
#38. The London season is like one of those Drury Lane melodramas in which marriage is always the ending. And no one ever seems to give any thought as to what happens after. But marriage isn't the end of the story it's the beginning. And it demands the efforts of both partners to make a success of it.
Lisa Kleypas
#39. In standard American English, the word with the most gradations of meaning is probably run. The Random House unabridged dictionary offers one hundred and seventy-eight options, beginning with "to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk" and ending with "melted or liquefied." In
Stephen King
#41. But a person doesn't always know the difference between a new beginning and a forever sort of ending.
Ali Benjamin
#42. Nobody can go back and start all over again. But anyone can start today and make a new beginning. Instead of another closure, make a new future.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#43. A moment's beginning ends in a moment
Munia Khan
#44. And just as I thought that my happy ending was beginning, it had to end so soon even though it hadn't started yet.
Kristine Cuevas
#45. The ending is the beginning, and the beginning is the first step, and the first step is the only step.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#46. The world is always ending and always beginning at every moment.
Frederick Lenz
#47. Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end.
Patrick Rothfuss
#48. When I'm putting a story together, I generally know the ending and a couple of the points halfway through, and I've got sort of an idea about the beginning, and although I do write the story one sentence at a time, when I'm thinking it up, I'm thinking it up all at once.
Alan Moore
#49. All transitions are composed of an ending, a neutral zone and a new beginning
William Bridges
#50. Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came out of what men were, but it did not go as men had planned.
Bruce Catton
#51. If I am brave enough to stand against those who have been groomed by fear, I will recognize that where I get knocked down is all about where life begins, and has nothing to do with where it ends.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#52. I'd like to think my performance is today. I never try to - it's so, as you know, watching me, I have a beginning, middle and ending. But every night the show changes and I relate to an audience and I relate to the young people.
Don Rickles
#53. Ends are not bad things, they just mean that something else is about to begin. And there are many things that don't really end, anyway, they just begin again in a new way. Ends are not bad and many ends aren't really an ending; some things are never-ending.
C. JoyBell C.
#54. Because love, no matter how tragic, is not an ending. It is a test and a textbook; it is a map to undiscovered places and a lexicon of languages yet to be spoken.
Love.
Really, it is a beginning.
Ted Michael
#55. ALPHA (A'LPHA) n.s.The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to our A; therefore used to signify the first. I am alpha and omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.BibleRevelat.
Samuel Johnson
#56. Hearing a story awakens the mythic story living in each of us. It places us in a "mythic condition" that reconnects us to the core imagination and living story at the center of our soul. Being touched by myth carries us to the center where the world is always ending and always beginning again.
Michael Meade
#57. I feel like if you really know the ending right from the beginning, you can add so many subtleties and little things later that will pay off and be more consistent and more rewarding for the reader.
Jeff Lemire
#58. If you can die, you are confused because death is a perception of something ending and something else obviously beginning, which means we're still hung up on qualities.
Frederick Lenz
#59. Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning ... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.
Chico Xavier
#60. What are you reading?" Owen asks.
"Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died."
"You ought to read the book from end to beginning," Owen jokes. "That way, no one dies, and it's always a happy ending.
Gabrielle Zevin
#61. Eternity is everywhere, it stretches endlessly in all directions, never beginning and never ending. Merge with it. Embrace it. Be free and disciplined.
Frederick Lenz
#62. This is how you discover who someone is. Not the success. Not the result. The struggle. The part between the beginning and the ending that is the truth of life.
Elan Mastai
#63. Mort moved my ending to the beginning, took out all the adjectives, cut the whole thing in half, and made it one hundred percent better.
'That's how it's done,' he said. Best writing lesson I ever had.
Anita Diamant
#64. Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde
#65. And the hermit's spirit detaches itself, ever so gently, and begins its lonely passage upward, to find its final resting place among the stars.
Eleanor Catton
#66. Graduation is not the conclusion of an achievement but simply the ending of one chapter and the beginning of another chapter
Thomas S. Monson
#67. I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination.
Billy Collins
#68. Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
Elizabeth Bowen
#69. I've learned that what has a good beginning needs also a good ending.
Spoken by the hero, Adam Tremain
Day Taylor
#70. Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?
Tahir Shah
#71. Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Henry Ward Beecher
#72. Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending.
Compay Segundo
#73. A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding ... and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for many more days in which we can gather like this.
C.J. Cherryh
#74. The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read. It makes it, as they say, or unmakes it. A weak beginning is forgettable, but the end of a story bulks in the reader's mind like the giant foot in a foreshortened photograph.
John Updike
#76. And so, we end with a beginning. Because every ending is really a beginning. All you need is a house that's old and creaky ... filled with lots of books ... a cat ... a person who's willing to try again ... someone who promises never to leave ... and most important of all ... a little Hope.
Kate Klise
#77. Do you believe in eternity?
We will encounter each other again and again, as the time goes by, as we change form, we will fall in love and tied together.
We are on top of a never-ending circle, each doesn't have a beginning or an ending.
MISAKI
#78. The priceless lesson in the New Year is that endings birth beginnings and beginnings birth endings. And in this elegantly choreographed dance of life, neither ever find an end in the other.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#79. When a fairy tale ends a new one starts. Close your eyes and say 'once upon a time' with me; who knows we may catch the beginning of a fairy tale which will bless us with a happy ending."
By T. Afsin Ilgar - Ted's Tale
T. Afsin Ilgar
#80. All right, said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
Lewis Carroll
#82. The ending can only start with the beginning and end with self estrangement, as to become once again his own/old self. This is why every man is a continuous ending.
Sorin Cerin
#83. You're scared and I understand that. I know it's difficult because you want to imagine the ending but you can't even imagine the beginning. But everything will be ok. It just takes time.
Andrew Davidson
#84. I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present.
David Levithan
#85. When the ending finally comes to me, I often have to backtrack and make the beginning point towards that ending. Other times, I know exactly what the ending will be before I begin, like with the story "A Brief Encounter With the Enemy." It was all about the ending - that's what motivated me.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
#86. They were infinite. They were the beginning and the ending; they were eternity. The king standing before them gaped as the shield of flame died out to reveal Aelin and Dorian, hand in hand, glowing like newborn gods as their magic entwined.
Sarah J. Maas
#87. But there's no such thing as a completely fresh start. Everything new arrives on the heels of something old, and every beginning comes at the cost of an ending.
Jennifer E. Smith
#88. You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
C.S. Lewis
#89. Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
Jack Kornfield
#90. Since the beginning is where things seem perfect and the ending is always tragic, why don't we skip to the middle? There're good things in the middle.
Jay Crownover
#93. The industrial age is ending, and a new one is beginning. It produces art instead of stuff and it rewards gracefulness.
Seth Godin
#94. But, for a little while, this is the place for us
a good place too
a place of good omen, a place of beginning things
and of ending things I never thought would end.
Beryl Markham
#95. I don't think there are too many rock bands in history that can look at the beginning and middle and ending of themselves and see what I see when I think of Soundgarden. I think from the beginning through the middle and the end it was such a perfect ride and such a perfect legacy to leave,
Chris Cornell
#96. Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they're part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They're not only the ending, but the beginning as well.
Benjamin Hoff
#97. Every sunrise gives you a new beginning and a new ending. Let this morning be a new beginning to a better relationship and a new ending to the bad memories. Its an opportunity to enjoy life, breathe freely, think and love. Be grateful for this beautiful day.
Norton Juster
#98. The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.
Alan Moore
#99. Both of us were quiet with the recognition that something was ending, and something was beginning.
Lisa Kleypas
#100. There are a couple of utterly important rules to writing anything, whether it's a novel, a short story or a collection of poetry. And they're really the only rules.
1: Quit talking about it and start.
2: Focus and finish it.
Nicholas Trandahl
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