15 Quotes About Endings And Beginning

When you’re writing a story, it can be hard to know when to stop. You want to tell the best story, and your characters want that too — but the ending is important too. These quotes about endings and beginnings will help you figure out how to bring it all together in the end.

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No matter how bad you want a person, if your hearts are in two different places, you’ll have to pass and move on. Alexandra Elle
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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.
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And then I knew that despite all the pain and hard work all of us had gone through, despite the sadness and anger we felt, in the end, everything was going to be fine. But I did not know when the end was, or if it was even near. But that did not matter. I preferred to look towards it in anticipation rather than worry about it. One new day equalled to one new adventure. And right now, I still had plenty of days left in my life. So I did not decide to sit down and plan out my life. Instead, I decided to sit back, relax, and see where life would take me. . Erica Sehyun Song
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To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings–all in the same relationship. Unknown
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Spring is proof that there is beauty in new beginnings. Matshona Dhliwayo
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We must be conscious of this; one day, the life we have, will be gone. Lailah Gifty Akita
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You have no control over how your story begins or ends. But by now, you should know that all things have an ending. Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. Every flower returns to sleep with the earth. The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimateart. Suzy Kassem
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Countless times, I have imagined A. rising through the rivers of this land, to the surface of Florida to be found again, pulled into the air by new hands. The possibilities are endless, but most often I imagine him found by children. Above him, the sky shimmers and undulates blue through transparent springwater. Then four small brown hands break the surface and pull him into the air and into their excited and frightened vocabularies. The delicate bones of their arms and ribs absorb his voice, shattering their knowledge of what is possible. Rhonda Riley
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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
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When you begin, you envision a better end but, when you get to the end, you see the beginning better! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Death is the end of our ephemeral life and beginning of infinite eternal life. Debasish Mridha
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Endings and beginnings look just the same. Patricia Robin Woodruff
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Major Chhetri's pronouncement when we'd first arrived in Nepal came echoing back: "Things that start in the rain end well. Jane WilsonHowarth
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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