Top 100 Endings Beginnings Quotes
#1. 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
#2. We fear beginnings; we fear endings. We fear changing; we fear "staying stuck." We fear success; we fear failure. We fear living; we fear dying.
Susan Jeffers
#3. Beginnings come at random but endings always have a reason
Ayumi Hamasaki
#4. The best endings resonate because they echo a word, phrase, or image from earlier in the story, and the reader is prompted to think back to that reference and speculate on a deeper meaning.
James Plath
#5. I tend to write my beginnings and endings first - as a cartoonist and storyteller, I couldn't sit down every day if I didn't know where the story was headed.
Jeff Lemire
#6. Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise.
Kim Harrison
#7. Saying Good Bye is bad but don't forget. it is a new beginning of something and new beginnings are always blissful
Anamika Mishra
#8. Endings are the toughest, harder than beginnings. They must satisfy the expectations you have hopefully generated in your reader - not frustrate them, leave the reader grasping at elusive strings.
Jeffrey Thomas
#9. When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.
Shannon L. Alder
#10. Sometimes ends are in fact beginnings; beginnings ends.
Anna Godbersen
#11. Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.
T. S. Eliot
#12. Without a beginning I am pouring the whole of my existence into the building of endings, while the cross and the resurrection declare that God is incessantly building beginnings from the collapse of endings.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#13. Beginnings are happy never-endings as long as you remember where you started from.
Steven Cuoco
#14. The fear
that all this
will end.
The fear
that it won't.
Rae Armantrout
#16. All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
Mitch Albom
#17. There is no beginning to an end / But there is a beginning and an end / To beginning.
Gertrude Stein
#18. It's all right- this isn't the end of it. Endings and beginnings are as different than exits and entrances.
Takuji Ichikawa
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. What really counts are good endings, not flawed beginnings.
Ibn Taymiyyah
#22. 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
#23. In His plan there are no true endings. Only everlasting beginnings.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#24. 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
#25. I must finish what I've started, even if, inevitably, what I finish turns out not to be what I began.
Salman Rushdie
#26. I've learned that what has a good beginning needs also a good ending.
Spoken by the hero, Adam Tremain
Day Taylor
#27. We all have our own Journey which be ending for everyone the same.
Jan Jansen
#28. How we begin and how we end any relationship is a product of planning, fortuity, and personality. Many enterprises commenced in good faith spiral into confusion, discord, and disarray, generate turmoil and corruption, sunburn the sensitive parties, and conclude in a cesspool of regret and animosity.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#29. Death is the end of our ephemeral life and beginning of infinite eternal life.
Debasish Mridha
#30. Too often our lives are soiled to desperation by endings that in reality are magnificently outnumbered by beginnings. And unless we become convinced that an ending is always the birthplace of a beginning that is on its way, we will live terribly soiled lives.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#31. over the smooth lip of the china cup, I thought of how someone's loss had become my gain, of how the tide would roll in and out again as if nothing had changed, and how sometimes the separation between endings and beginnings is so
Karen White
#32. This is the beginning There are no beginnings or endings We are here Learning And creating and destroying Growing and decaying I want to share with the world and be loved But it always starts with me. The stone dropped Creates the ripples
Isa Ritchie
#33. The word 'however' is like an imp coiled beneath your chair. It induces ink to form words you have not yet seen, and lines to march across the page and overshoot the margin. There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. Here is one.
Hilary Mantel
#34. You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a learning experience instead of a proving one.
Guy Finley
#35. If only we had the ability to live life as though it were so new or so close to the end that all we could do is give and show and become love. It seems that beginnings and endings teach us about this kind of love. It is in between that we tend to forget.
Michael Spehn
#36. To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#37. Although I am far too frequently convinced otherwise, with God a dead-end is only the death of an end.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#38. There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything has ended and nothing else can ever begin.
Robin Hobb
#39. There is something deep within us that sobs at endings. Why, God, does everything have to end? Why does all nature grow old? Why do spring and summer have to go?
Joe L. Wheeler
#40. Why had I ever cared about happy endings? Happy beginnings were so much better.
Kristin Walker
#41. Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.
Ann Leckie
#42. Endings bring new beginnings. Love has many truths. And knights come in all colours.
Dianna Hardy
#43. Some journeys don't have endings, they lead to new beginnings. These are the journeys that lead to great adventures!
Alex Haditaghi
#44. In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
Karen Salmansohn
#46. Endings are thus formally unappealing to me, more than beginning or ending, in life, I enjoy continuing. Continuing is my only focus or concern.
Brian D'Ambrosio
#47. Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster.
Sam Shepard
#48. Perhaps events had their own way of ordering themselves , perhaps beginnings and endings always had coincidences no ordinary person could penetrate. In the flood of time, human beings were no more than flecks of grit, borne along by the flow.
Chan Ho-Kei
#49. A story of before and after, of new beginnings and never-endings. A story flawed and fractured, crazy and cracked, and most of all, a love story.
Amy Harmon
#50. Major Chhetri's pronouncement when we'd first arrived in Nepal came echoing back: Things that start in the rain end well.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#53. Sometimes painful endings bring the best new beginnings.
Shae Ross
#55. Endings are beginnings, and beginnings are ours to turn into something good.
Elizabeth Chandler
#56. When you begin, you envision a better end but, when you get to the end, you see the beginning better!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#57. 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
#58. 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
#60. 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
#61. Amidst the rush of worldly comings and goings, I observe how all endings become beginnings
Wayne Dyer
#63. 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
#64. I always begin [a novel] with outlines, but they change and so do my endings and beginnings.
Sefi Atta
#65. Sometimes all a country needs is an entire collapse for a new beginning!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#66. And I hope above all you give your heart to someone again no matter how many broken promises you have recieved.
Nikki Rowe
#67. 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
#68. It is always easier to see the beginning from the end, than the end from the beginning.
Julia McNair Wright
#69. 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
#70. I don't believe that 17-year-olds get happy endings. They get beginnings.
Rainbow Rowell
#71. Since when," he asked,
"Are the first line and last line of any poem
Where the poem begins and ends?
Seamus Heaney
#72. 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
#73. I know beginnings, I know endings too,
and life-in-death, and something else
I'd rather not recall just now.
Anna Akhmatova
#74. 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
#75. 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. 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
#77. happy endings start with new beginnings.
Luanne Rice
#78. 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
#79. I don't believe in happy endings," Flynn said, spinning Tess and tilting up her chin. "Just happy beginnings.
Brynn Kelly
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.
Lev Grossman
#84. Grace has as much to say about endings as it does about beginnings.
Jen Pollock Michel
#85. 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
#86. I didn't write them a happy ending because 17-year-olds don't get endings.
They get beginnings.
Rainbow Rowell
#87. Beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living.
Bob Marley
#88. Stories don't end," he says. "They just turn into new beginnings." (pg. 123)
Lindsay Eagar
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. Small beginnings are the launching pad to great endings.
Joyce Meyer
#92. You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
John Irving
#94. The secret to a fulfilled life is to engage in more beginnings than endings. Explore. Discover. Experience.
Jason Harvey
#96. 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
#97. All beginnings are scary, like all endings are sad, but that's the journey and everything in between is worth experiencing.
J.C. Reed
#98. 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
#99. 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
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