Quotes About Beginning

only when a man dies can his life acquire a beginning, middle, and an end: up until then we are constantly unfinished, even the midpoint cannot be located. So only the final word finds the middle word and this, in a way becomes a verse--one's death explains oneself.

A wise man said a long ago, to realize that one is ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

I remember one morning... getting up at dawn... there was such a sense of possibility! You know? That feeling? And... and I remember thinking to myself: 'So this is the beginning of happiness...' 'This is where it starts!' 'And, of course, there'll always be more.' Never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning, It was happiness. It was the moment...

Look with favour upon a bold beginning.

Et iam prima novo spargebat lumine terras

Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semitransparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

There is no doubt in my mind, that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice.

There was all the difference in the world between this planning airily away from the canvas and actually taking her brush and making the first mark.

She felt that if only one could begin things at the beginning, one might see more clearly upon what foundations they now rest.

But when she looked at Prue tonight, she saw this was not now quite true of her. She was just beginning, just moving, just descending.

Every word they said now would be true.) Do say something, she thought, wishing only to hear his voice. For the shadow, the thing folding them in was beginning, she felt, to close round her again. Say anything, she begged, looking at him, as if for help.

Let us take down one of those old notebooks which we have all, at one time or another, had a passion for beginning. Most of the pages are blank, it is true; but at the beginning we shall find a certain number very beautifully covered with a strikingly legible handwriting….here we have copied out fine passages from the classics;…here, most interesting of all, lists of books that have actually been read, as the reader testifies with some youthful vanity by a dash of red ink.

J'ai un faible pour les gens qui ne se décident pas à commencer quelque chose.

With the twelfth stroke of midnight, the darkness was complete. A turbulent welter of cloud covered the city. All was darkness; all was doubt; all was confusion. The eighteenth century was over; the nineteenth century had begun.

But if there are no stories, what end can there be, or what beginning?

I am convinced, however, that in a certain magic and fateful way Lolita began with Annabel.

me pregunto si fue entonces, en el resplandor de aquel verano remoto, cuando empezó a hendirse mi vida.

But how can I begin writing when I do not know whether I shall have time enough, and the torture comes when you say to yourself, Yesterday there would have been enough times - and again you think, If only I had begun yesterday...

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one's feet.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.