Sometimes what you think is an end is only a beginning. And that wouldn't do at all.

— Agatha Christie

Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.

— Robin Hobb

Although I am far too frequently convinced otherwise, with God a dead-end is only the death of an end.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

A moment’s beginning ends in a moment.

— Munia Khan

The truth is: I was lost in him. I had gone from losing one of the most important people in my life and then losing someone I loved a month later. I wrapped myself in people, in lust, in the idea of love. I met him and I met a gentlemen, and when I found out who he truly was, I was still in love with the gentleman and justified all of his actions.

— Dominic Riccitello

People always start with vigor, deep aspirations and inspirations, but things that happen as we journey and our reactions towards such things, fantasies and realities, determine the real robustness of our staying power and what distinctive thing we are able to do in reality with our vigor, aspirations and inspirations in the end!

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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 ultimate art.

— Suzy Kassem

Very well, you do so love rules! I shall make some up for you on the spot, so that my little moppet is not forced to wander the world in a soup of stories without laws. A tale may have exactly three beginnings: one for the audience, one for the artist, and one for the poor bastard who has to live in it.

— Catherynne M. Valente

The end is never the end. It's always the the beginning of something.

— Kate Lord Brown

When you let go of control and commit yourself to happiness, it is so easy to offer compassion and forgiveness. This propels you from the past, into the present. People that are negative, spend so much time trying to control situations and blame others for their problems. Committing yourself to staying positive is a daily mantra that states, “I have control over how I plan to react, feel, think and believe in the present. No one guides the tone of my life, except me!

— Shannon L. Alder