Top 893 Beginnings And Endings Quotes & Sayings

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

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

Where are the beginnings, the endings, and most important, the middles?

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.

I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.

It's lonely to say goodbye. Very lonely. Partings are the beginnings of new meetings. Beginnings happen because there are endings…Meetings. Beginnings. It's not too late…to believe in them after the fact.

Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.

happy endings start with new beginnings.

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

A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end.

In this life ain't no happy endings; Only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance.

Endings are always the beginnings of something else

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.

With film music, endings are often more difficult than beginnings, because a beginning is an underline, a way of exciting a moment, and then you have to find a way to dissipate that.

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.

What really counts are good endings, not flawed beginnings.

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

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. I know what he means, and I agree.

And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

Observe how endings become beginnings.

I love the idea of stories being about great beginnings and terrible endings.

Bad beginnings, bad endings.

My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise.

Catherine Land liked the beginnings of things. The pure white possibility of the empty room, the first kiss, the first swipe at larceny. And endings, she liked endings, too. The drama of the smashing glass, the dead bird, the tearful goodbye, the last awful word which could never be unsaid or unremembered. It was the middles that gave her pause. This, for all its forward momentum, this was a middle. The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that.

Endings are beginnings-if we allow them to be.

Partings are the beginnings of new meetings. Beginnings happen because there are endings.

Dogs don't know about beginnings, and they don't speculate on matters that occurred before their time. Dogs also don't know - or at least don't accept - the concept of death. With no concept of beginnings or endings dogs probably don't know that for people having a dog as a life companion provides a streak of light between two eternities of darkness.

Beginnings come at random but endings always have a reason

In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.

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.

Small beginnings are the launching pad to great endings.

In His plan there are no true endings. Only everlasting beginnings.

No story has a beginning, and no story has an end. Beginnings and endings may be conceived to serve a purpose, to serve a momentary and transient intent, but they are, in their fundamental nature, arbitrary and exist solely as a convenient construct in the minds of man. Lives are messy, and when we set out to relate them, or parts of them, we cannot ever discern precise and objective moments when any given event began. All beginnings are arbitrary.

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

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

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.

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

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

The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that.

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.

I think a lot of people want stories or lives to have very distinct beginnings, middles, and endings. Generally, I think things are a little more fluid than that.

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.

The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies.

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

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.

I hate endings. Just detest them. Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster. … The temptation towards resolution, towards wrapping up the package, seems to me a terrible trap. Why not be more honest with the moment? The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards another beginning. That’s genius.

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

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.

When we're young, we like happy endings. When we're a little older, we think happy endings are unrealistic and so we prefer bad but credible endings. When we're older still, we realize happy endings aren't so bad after all.

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

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.

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.

She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most.

Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise.

Endings are always tough, but I believe when something ends, there are new beginnings, new opportunities and new things to be excited for, too.

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.

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

I'm not an endings person. I don't do endings. There may have been people in the band who wanted this to be an ending from time to time, but me and Amy don't really do endings. You cannot escape from us. Once we're friends with you, that's it.

Walter is a force of nature, without beginnings and endings.

It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.