69 Quotes About Beginnings-and-endings

As you begin a life of service to your nation, your family, and your god, may your experience at Valor be like the sharpening stone. A blunt and hard movable object that is used to bring an edge to a blade.

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.

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

It feels as though the beginning and the end are intertwined, thus leading to a never-ending cycle. Surely this will not be the end. Just as it can't be considered the beginning. Just as it can't be determined where the beginning or the end is.

A bad beginning does not keep you from a good ending.

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

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!

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

Not only are there before and after, but there are also beginnings and returns. Not only is there the creation of the humans, formed of corn or clay, with a breath of wind or a god, but there are mythic destinies. Sometimes myth is formed by the body and what happens to it, especially in the realm of pain, depth, and birth. Phantoms of generations past are in our bodies. These explain us to ourselves.