Quotes About Beginnings And Endings

#1. 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

#2. There are never beginnings and endings in my work; everything just fits into place after a while.

Bruce Gilden

#3. 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

#4. Youth and age, she thought. Beginnings and endings, connections and constancy. And, love.

Nora Roberts

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be discerned.

Patrick W. Carr

#8. At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don't know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are.

Terry Pratchett

#9. 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

#10. Same people. Same hellos and goodbyes. Same beginnings and endings. Same befores and afters.

Sarah Ockler

#11. 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

#12. In the midst of life's ups and down, beginnings and endings, let us live our life, let us be joyful, let us be happy.

Debasish Mridha

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

John Galsworthy

#16. 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

#17. Today's ashes are tomorrow's soil.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#18. 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

#19. I know beginnings, I know endings too,
and life-in-death, and something else
I'd rather not recall just now.

Anna Akhmatova

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Since when," he asked,
"Are the first line and last line of any poem
Where the poem begins and ends?

Seamus Heaney

#23. 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

#24. It is always easier to see the beginning from the end, than the end from the beginning.

Julia McNair Wright

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. And I hope above all you give your heart to someone again no matter how many broken promises you have recieved.

Nikki Rowe

#29. That's the difference between life and art, of course. Life has no frames, no curtains, no beginnings and no endings.

Orson Scott Card

#30. 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

#31. Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.

Robin Hobb

#32. I always begin [a novel] with outlines, but they change and so do my endings and beginnings.

Sefi Atta

#33. Life is endings and beginnings.

Amy Poehler

#34. Amidst the rush of worldly comings and goings, I observe how all endings become beginnings

Wayne Dyer

#35. 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

#36. And endings are always the beginnings of something else.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#37. 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

#38. When you begin, you envision a better end but, when you get to the end, you see the beginning better!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. Endings are beginnings, and beginnings are ours to turn into something good.

Elizabeth Chandler

#42. 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

#43. Sometimes all a country needs is an entire collapse for a new beginning!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. Well, everything comes to an end, sooner or later," she said. "Everything begins and ends. Everything changes.

Peter Boody

#47. All beginnings are scary, like all endings are sad, but that's the journey and everything in between is worth experiencing.

J.C. Reed

#48. The beginning and ending of the secret of handling Arabs is unremitting study of them.

T.E. Lawrence

#49. 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

#50. ...the beginning is where the end gets born.

Catherynne M Valente

#51. A moment's beginning ends in a moment

Munia Khan

#52. 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

#53. You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

John Irving

#54. 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

#55. Stories don't end," he says. "They just turn into new beginnings." (pg. 123)

Lindsay Eagar

#56. I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

Katherine Applegate

#57. The end is never the end. It's always the the beginning of something.

Kate Lord Brown

#58. Beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living.

Bob Marley

#59. I didn't write them a happy ending because 17-year-olds don't get endings.
They get beginnings.

Rainbow Rowell

#60. 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

#61. Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.

Lev Grossman

#62. 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.

#63. 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

#64. 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

#65. Endings and beginnings are inseparable, like the moment before dawn and the moment after.

Kass Morgan

#66. Sometimes what you think is an end is only a beginning. And that wouldn't do at all.

Agatha Christie

#67. With endings come new beginnings.

Alexandra Potter

#68. I don't believe in happy endings," Flynn said, spinning Tess and tilting up her chin. "Just happy beginnings.

Brynn Kelly

#69. 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

#70. 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

#71. 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

#72. Generosity, generosity, generosity, must be the beginning and ending of our life

Cornelia Connelly

#73. I've learned that what has a good beginning needs also a good ending.

Spoken by the hero, Adam Tremain

Day Taylor

#74. I must finish what I've started, even if, inevitably, what I finish turns out not to be what I began.

Salman Rushdie

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. It's all right- this isn't the end of it. Endings and beginnings are as different than exits and entrances.

Takuji Ichikawa

#80. There is no beginning to an end / But there is a beginning and an end / To beginning.

Gertrude Stein

#81. A sunset is nothing more and nothing less than the backside of a sunrise.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#82. For all my dreams of complex new beginnings and convoluted endings, it can be as easy as this: a boy singing hymns again.

Kristin Hannah

#83. Where are the beginnings, the endings, and most important, the middles?

Julio Cortazar

#84. Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#85. It isn't given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.

Eleanor Porter

#86. Every exit is an entrance to someplace else.

Patti LaBelle

#87. This is not the end, of course. Every story we read, every film we watch, continues in our imagination if we allow it.

Hugh Howey

#88. 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

#89. Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

T. S. Eliot

#90. 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

#91. This, I suspect, is the territory that lies just ahead and around the curve of today. A place where loss grows more familiar, where joy is harmonized by sorrow, where endings outnumber beginnings, and where kindness becomes a sacrament.

Katrina Kenison

#92. Saying Good Bye is bad but don't forget. it is a new beginning of something and new beginnings are always blissful

Anamika Mishra

#93. 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

#94. We can't even remotely fathom that whatever is ending for us is always more than an ending.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#95. Places, like people, have their beginnings and have also their endings.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

#96. No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!

C. JoyBell C.

#97. 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

#98. 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

#99. Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster.

Sam Shepard

#100. 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