Top 100 Beginnings Endings Quotes
#1. Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie.
Wallace Stegner
#2. Endings and beginnings are inseparable, like the moment before dawn and the moment after.
Kass Morgan
#3. God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease.
Bernie Siegel
#4. Fiction is the enemy of history. Fiction makes us believe in structure, in beginnings and middles and endings, in tragedy and comedy. There is neither tragedy nor comedy in war, only disorder and harm.
Sarah Moss
#5. 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.
#6. Because all endings have a certain a certain amount of pain, just as all beginnings contain a certain amount of joy.
Heather Brewer
#7. Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.
Lev Grossman
#8. Youth and age, she thought. Beginnings and endings, connections and constancy. And, love.
Nora Roberts
#9. Grace has as much to say about endings as it does about beginnings.
Jen Pollock Michel
#10. Autumn has come to northeast Montana. The vapor of one's breath, the clarity of the stars, the smell of wood smoke, the stones underfoot that even a full day of sunlight won't warm- these all say there will be no more days that can be mistaken for summer.
Larry Watson
#11. I didn't write them a happy ending because 17-year-olds don't get endings.
They get beginnings.
Rainbow Rowell
#12. Beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living.
Bob Marley
#13. The end is never the end. It's always the the beginning of something.
Kate Lord Brown
#14. Do not neglect the day of small things, for little beginnings have big endings
Florence Scovel Shinn
#15. I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.
Katherine Applegate
#16. Stories don't end," he says. "They just turn into new beginnings." (pg. 123)
Lindsay Eagar
#17. happy endings start with new beginnings.
Luanne Rice
#18. A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end.
Douglas Rushkoff
#19. There are never beginnings and endings in my work; everything just fits into place after a while.
Bruce Gilden
#20. Small beginnings are the launching pad to great endings.
Joyce Meyer
#21. You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
John Irving
#22. As Garp put it, 'You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.' Even if these so-called endings and beginnings are illusions.
John Irving
#23. A moment's beginning ends in a moment
Munia Khan
#25. The secret to a fulfilled life is to engage in more beginnings than endings. Explore. Discover. Experience.
Jason Harvey
#26. You try to decide if you should take this as a message of endings. Or beginnings.
Francesca Lia Block
#27. And time inherently creates a story. Things begin and they end. How they end is the story. Or maybe it's what happens between when they begin and end that's the story.
Arianna Huffington
#28. In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.
Ellen Hopkins
#29. In any important relationship, we must always ask should we stay or leave. Perchance the correct answer exits in the reason for hanging on and the reason for finally moving on. Perchance self-sacrifice is required. Conversely, perhaps selfishness is called for as an act of self-preservation.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#30. It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.
Gautama Buddha
#31. Daddy
and it contained within it the prospect of living and the hope of dying, of endings and beginnings, of love and loss and peace and rage, all wrapped up in two whispered syllables.
John Connolly
#32. What really counts are good endings, not flawed beginnings.
Ibn Taymiyyah
#33. 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
#34. In His plan there are no true endings. Only everlasting beginnings.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#35. Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.
Anna Quindlen
#36. Maybe I don't have enough beginnings in my life because I fought against the endings that were about to birth those beginnings.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#37. When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
Aidan Chambers
#38. I must finish what I've started, even if, inevitably, what I finish turns out not to be what I began.
Salman Rushdie
#40. I've learned that what has a good beginning needs also a good ending.
Spoken by the hero, Adam Tremain
Day Taylor
#41. Generosity, generosity, generosity, must be the beginning and ending of our life
Cornelia Connelly
#42. Why had I ever cared about happy endings? Happy beginnings were so much better.
Kristin Walker
#43. If you have not seen the real end of the journey, don't boast much at the beginning and never be too proud and haughty in mid of the path. Keep the real end in mind and mind how to get to the real end successfully!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#44. Life has no happy endings, actually, no endings at all, just an ongoing series of beginnings. A story - whether it's happy or sad, whether it makes sense or not, what its meaning is - depends entirely on where you start it and where you end it.
Judith Ryan Hendricks
#46. As a writer, I try to appeal to the 'elusive boy audience' the same way I try to appeal to everyone: I do the very best I can to create interesting characters, addictive plots, tons of conflict, believable settings, unexpected plot twists, intriguing beginnings, and satisfying endings.
Marie Lu
#47. I don't believe in happy endings," Flynn said, spinning Tess and tilting up her chin. "Just happy beginnings.
Brynn Kelly
#49. Sometimes what you think is an end is only a beginning. And that wouldn't do at all.
Agatha Christie
#50. The sense of endings as well as beginnings in the air is now so obvious in so many dimensions of our experience that a critical mass has been reached.
Marianne Williamson
#51. Partings are the beginnings of new meetings.
Beginnings happen because there are endings.
Natsuki Takaya
#52. Frederica also thought, for she had been there many times, that if this was a beginning, it was the beginning of an ending, that was the way it went.
A.S. Byatt
#53. I always begin [a novel] with outlines, but they change and so do my endings and beginnings.
Sefi Atta
#54. Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.
Robin Hobb
#55. It's a lot easier to say when something ended rather than when it began. Most of us can recognize the end from a mile away, but the beginning always slips up on us, lulling us into thinking what we're living through is yet another moment, in yet another day.
Steve Yarbrough
#57. I do not know why journalists insist on calling their stuff "pieces", when they are in fact little entities, attempting to have beginnings, middles and endings.
James Cameron
#58. That's the difference between life and art, of course. Life has no frames, no curtains, no beginnings and no endings.
Orson Scott Card
#59. And I hope above all you give your heart to someone again no matter how many broken promises you have recieved.
Nikki Rowe
#60. Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for. - Ann Patchett, from the essay The Sense of an Ending
Megan Hart
#61. She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most.
Sandra Bullock
#62. Sometimes you need to take the chance and risk it all. Everything might come to an abrupt end or lead to a prosperous beginning either way you would have got your answers, answers you happened to seek which will only be given to you when you ask for them, when you speak.
Chirag Tulsiani
#63. My hope for all of us is that 'the miles we go before we sleep' will be filled with all the feelings that come from deep caring
delight , sadness, joy, wisdom
and that in all the endings of our life, we will be able to see the new beginnings.
Fred Rogers
#65. It is always easier to see the beginning from the end, than the end from the beginning.
Julia McNair Wright
#66. But as Hegel teaches us, beginnings are necessarily problematic. (As are endings.) How can I describe my first encounter with Ana fairly, when my understanding of her essence has passed through infinite iterations over the past four and a half years? My
Alena Graedon
#67. I don't believe that 17-year-olds get happy endings. They get beginnings.
Rainbow Rowell
#68. Since when," he asked,
"Are the first line and last line of any poem
Where the poem begins and ends?
Seamus Heaney
#69. Most people never ask where the road goes if the road is very beautiful! This is an ignorance because the 'endings' may never carry the beauties of the beginnings!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#70. Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
Baltasar Gracian
#71. I know beginnings, I know endings too,
and life-in-death, and something else
I'd rather not recall just now.
Anna Akhmatova
#72. And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning.
Hunter S. Thompson
#74. 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
#76. So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.
Margaret Atwood
#77. Let my memories of you be like water on the moon. A beautiful impossibility - but allowing me to sleep and dream of infinite beginnings rather than Othello endings.
Carew Papritz
#78. The beginning and ending of the secret of handling Arabs is unremitting study of them.
T.E. Lawrence
#79. I have a problem with beginnings ... and endings ... and middles. But I don't know what else I would do. I find it very, very difficult to write. It takes everything; it's physically and mentally and emotionally exhausting for me. And my neighbours. And my dog.
Miriam Toews
#80. All beginnings are scary, like all endings are sad, but that's the journey and everything in between is worth experiencing.
J.C. Reed
#81. Well, everything comes to an end, sooner or later," she said. "Everything begins and ends. Everything changes.
Peter Boody
#82. Beginnings are usually scary, endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will.
Steven Rogers
#83. Once upon a time ... " "In the beginning was ... " That's the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history, chronicle, myth, legend, folktale, or old wives' tale blues riff begins with "Woke up this mornin' ...
Steven Tyler
#85. Sometimes all a country needs is an entire collapse for a new beginning!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#86. Sometimes painful endings bring the best new beginnings.
Shae Ross
#88. In life, there are no true beginnings or endings.
Gavin Extence
#89. I felt clean, all the bone-beaked loneliness birds banished, their rocky nests turned to river stones. Cool, clear water bubbled over them, streams in the desert.
Bryce Courtenay
#90. Endings are beginnings, and beginnings are ours to turn into something good.
Elizabeth Chandler
#91. If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that's lost, there is usually something gained.
Merle Shain
#92. The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow.
Shannon L. Alder
#93. And because it's all that we can see, the ending becomes an end in itself when directly ahead of us new beginnings are being forged and fresh byways are being laid out from the very ending that we're caught up in.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#94. he claimed to have seen sunrise from every angle. Never sunset, though. Beginnings were far more interesting than endings. One held promise, the other only darkness.
L.J. Hatton
#95. When you begin, you envision a better end but, when you get to the end, you see the beginning better!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#96. As they helped Max clear the few dishes they used, he told them the plan for tomorrow. "It's our custom to bury our dead at sunrise," he said. "We believe that dawn is the time of renewal. Endings and beginnings are inseparable, like the moment before dawn and the moment after." "That's
Kass Morgan
#97. In life, the number of beginnings is exactly equal to the number of endings ... In poetry, the number of beginnings so far exceeds the number of endings that we cannot even conceive of it.
Mary Ruefle
#99. 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
#100. Amidst the rush of worldly comings and goings, I observe how all endings become beginnings
Wayne Dyer
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