Quotes About Beginning

The book thief had struck for the first time - the beginning of an illustrious career.

was January 1939.

The rot started

People observe the colours of a day only at its beginnings and ends

Chapter One: It was quite fitting that the entire town was sleeping when the dream carrier was born...

Like most misery, it started with an apparent happiness

The trouble with life (the novelist will feel) is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor, or at least violently uneven. The twists are either predictable or sensationalist. And it's always the same beginning, and the same ending.

But what is great can only begin great.

When I spoke of beauty, I was thinking of Rilke's notion that the beautiful is nothing but the beginning of the terrible, and of Hölderlin's idea that the beautiful can unite extreme opposites in intimacy.

What is last is what not only needs the longest ante-cedence [Vor-läuferschaft] but what itself is the most profound beginning rather than a cessation, the beginning which reaches out the furthest and catches up to itself with the greatest difficulty. What is last is therefore withdrawn from all calculation and for that reason must be able to bear the burden of the loudest and most repeated misinterpretation. How else could it remain what is surpassing?

James Hutton, peering at the fine detail of geological stratigraphy, newly exposed by eighteenth century industrial works. Realizing a simple story was illusory, he instead inferred a world in which 'we find no vestige of a beginning—no prospect of an end'.

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.

No more sorrow and regret! Take heart! A new day is beginning.

Things are always easier when imagination ceases and action begins

Premda sam imala samo ?etrnaest godina, ?inilo mi se kao da sam ve? živjela dva života. Moj novi život još uvijek nije pravo zapo?eo, iako je moj stari život završio prije dosta vremena.

The end was nigh. She had been waiting for her father to die so her life could begin, but as we could all have told her it doesn't work like that. She knew that anyway. Really.

Everything important originated with nothingness.

No matter what night preceded it, she had never known a morning when she did not feel the rise of a quiet excitement that became a tightening energy in her body and a hunger for action in her mind—because this was the beginning of day and it was a day of her life.

That man, the unsubmissive and first, stands in the opening chapter of every legend mankind has recorded about its beginning. Prometheus was chained to a rock and torn by vultures—because he had stolen the fire of the gods. Adam was condemned to suffer—because he had eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Whatever the legend, somewhere in the shadows of its memory mankind knew that its glory began with one and that that one paid for his courage.

Begin now to be what you will be hereafter.

Then, in far less time than it takes to tell - - The blip is gone - - But the wonderment begins - -

And you who seek to know Me, know that the seeking and yearning will avail you not, unless you know the Mystery: for if that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find it without. For behold, I have been with you from the beginning, and I am That which is attained at the end of desire.

Pero tú no puedes empezar. Eso sólo lo puede hacer un bebé. Tú y yo… pero si somos lo que ha pasado. La ira de un momento, mil imágenes, eso somos nosotros.

The thing that makes you say, I want to do something - that is the beginning of talent.