The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices.
There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.
While it is true that commercial art is always in danger of ending up as a prostitute, it is equally true that noncommercial art is always in danger of ending up as an old maid.
If you can see a world within a portrait I would be happy with that. I don't want to tell the story with a painting, though. I'm trying to get away from the story- from the beginning and the ending.
Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?
These are the best reasons to do anything in life. People who say things like this are the kind of people who change the world. Who prevent the world from ending. Or at least they can change the inner world of a reader and that is a sacred power.
This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.
I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower. I was not arguing, but engaged in a rousing discussion.
And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.
Not everything in this life has a happy ending, but this life is not the end of the story.
Sunset in the ethereal waves: I cannot tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets is inside me again.
If you own this story you get to write the ending.
I think probably everybody works most on the beginning and the ending.
That state of mind - of being beside yourself - is wonderful. As you get older, you're just very aware of a sense of an ending. You're grateful for every day.
It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.
Saw # Birdman. Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending.
Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville.
All reading was done in the early years out loud, there was no such thing as silent reading because you had to read out loud in order to figure out you know, where was a word ending and where is the word beginning.
Every ending is also a beginning. We'll meet again, I promise.
But only agony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.