quotations about beginning
End without infinity is but a new beginning.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC
The Sun Watches the Sun
What one needs to do at every moment of one's life is to put an end to the old world and to begin a new world.
NIKOLAI BERDYAEV
The Beginning and the End
all these calculations yes explanations yes the whole story from beginning to end yes completely false yes
SAMUEL BECKETT
How It Is
We ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings.
SAM TANENHAUS
Literature Unbound
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
LAO-TZU
Tao Te Ching
This is the beginning of anything you want.
BOY
"This Is the Beginning", Mutual Friends
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment. When this sensation is lacking--as when one is in prison, or ill, or stupid, or when living has become a habit--one might as well be dead.
CESARE PAVESE
This Business of Living, Nov. 23, 1937
In every end, there is also a beginning.
LIBBA BRAY
A Great and Terrible Beauty
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
LEWIS CARROLL
Alice in Wonderland
End, begin, all the same. Big change. Sometimes good, sometimes bad.
DAVID ODELL
The Dark Crystal
The birth of all things is weak and tender; and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Essays
Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!
HORACE
Epistles
Rise up lotus, rise, this is the beginning.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA
"Lotus"
The beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time and patience in order to find out in which direction it is heading, a process that feels its way along the path ahead like a blind man the beginning is just the beginning, what came before is nigh on worthless.
JOSÉ SARAMAGO
The Cave
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
CONFUCIUS
The Analects
The beginning is the promise of the end.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
The Fellowship of the Ring
We must be tender with all budding things.
Our Maker let no thought of Calvary
Trouble the morning stars in their first song.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
The Land of Heart's Desire
The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.
ALAN MOORE
V for Vendetta
Things are always at their best in their beginning.
PASCAL
Provincial Letters