Quotes About Ends And Beginnings

#1. You're searching ...
For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings.
Ends and beginnings - there are no such things.
There are only middles.

Robert Frost

#2. THINGS HAVE ENDS AND BEGINNINGS Cloud mountains rise over mountain range. Silence and quietness, sky bright as water, sky bright as lake water. Grace is the instinct for knowing when to stop. And where.

Charles Wright

#3. The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#4. People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. Waxy yellows, cloud-spat blues. Murky darknesses.

Markus Zusak

#5. Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

A.S. Byatt

#6. I left Beijing because I wanted to be alone and to forge my own path, but I know now that no path is solitary, we all tread across other people's beginnings and ends.

Ma Jian

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

Gertrude Stein

#8. Life is all beginnings and ends. Nothing stays the same, lad.

Bryce Courtenay

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

Eleanor Porter

#10. If the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.

Alain De Botton

#11. I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on.

Clay Aiken

#12. BUILD UP YOUR CIRCLE ... A mind that perceives What can rationally be. A spirit that sees Innovative possibility. A heart that is open to Both beginnings and ends. A firm hand that fits readily To the reach of a friend.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#13. People observe the colours of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colours.

Markus Zusak

#14. Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.

Confucius

#15. Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#16. Believe it or not, stories don't function in terms of beginnings, middles and ends, they simply have beginnings, middles, and ends.

Film Crit Hulk!

#17. I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.

Eric Kripke

#18. Your heart's strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don't look back.

Shannon L. Alder

#19. Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.

Paul Valery

#20. Beginnings are the hardest because they're the parts that pull people in, that make them want the ends. And endings are the most painful, the parts that can leave you bleeding out.

Krista Ritchie

#21. Although I am far too frequently convinced otherwise, with God a dead-end is only the death of an end.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#22. Books were about movement. They were about quests and journeys. Beginnings and middles and ends, even if not in that order. They were about new chapters. And leaving old ones behind.

Matt Haig

#23. I like it when actors get an opportunity to chew into something. They love scenes with beginnings, middles, and ends - scenes that give an arc to their characters and allow audiences to get to know these people.

Tracy Letts

#24. People think in narratives - in beginnings, middles and ends. The danger when you edit something too severely is that it no longer makes sense; worse still, it leaves people with the disquieting impression that something is being hidden.

Errol Morris

#25. Our ego never wants to die and it will do anything to prolong its life. But the truth is, we are both spirit and ego and you have to have a balance between the two. Your spirit never dies, but the ego is all about beginnings and ends.

RuPaul

#26. The journey from love to love. This is the journey all of us are on- what happens between teh beginning and end of the journey is your life.

Gary Zukav

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

Munia Khan

#28. 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

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

Seamus Heaney

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

Julia McNair Wright

#31. It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.

Joan Didion

#32. It was a cycle of whimpers and bangs, gruesome beginnings and bloody ends.

Victoria Schwab

#33. We believe that the very beginning and end of salvation, and the sum of Christianity, consists of faith in Christ, who by His blood alone, and not by any works of ours, has put away sin, and destroyed the power of death.

Martin Luther

#34. When you live the virtues - when you live in that place of God-consciousness - all these rules we have about cause and effect, beginnings and ends, don't have any impact or relevance.

Wayne Dyer

#35. No straight lines make up my life; And all my roads have bends; There's no clear-cut beginnings; And so far no dead-ends.

Harry Chapin

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

Peter Boody

#37. Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

John Owen

#38. Bach is the beginning and end of all music.

Max Reger

#39. There are planets so far away from ours that no scientist will ever guess that they exits, let alone know the stories of their civilizations, their beginnings and ends. They're not being kept secret from us, but they're secret all the same.

John Darnielle

#40. One of the attractions of moving away into te life of employment, I think, is being disconnected and free, unbothered by membership. It is a life of beginnings without memories, but i is a life too that ends without being remembered.

Wendell Berry

#41. We live in biological time, and we have beginnings, middles, and ends.

Anonymous

#42. 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

#43. Things have ends (or scopes) and beginnings. To/ know what precedes and what follows will assist yr/ comprehension of process.

Ezra Pound

#44. All the things I've thought about love are true. It's beautiful and terrible and it doesn't make things perfect. It ends things, and it brings beginnings.
This is mine.

Elizabeth Scott

#45. 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.

#46. In him I saw my furture In him I saw my friend In him I saw my destiny Both my beginning and end

Alexandra Adornetto

#47. ( ... ) but no, ends must not be permitted to precede beginnings and middles, even if recent scientific experiments have shown us that within certain types of closed systems, under intense pressure, time can be persuaded to run backwards, so that effects precede their causes.

Salman Rushdie

#48. I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

Allan Sherman

#49. But, to Shepherd, life seemed to be laid out like a golf course, with a series of beginnings, hazards, and ends, and with a definite summing up - for comparison with others scores - after each hole.

Kurt Vonnegut

#50. The basic meaning of etiquette is to be quick at both the beginning and end and tranquil in the middle.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo