„If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning.“
— Corrie ten Boom Dutch resistance hero and writer 1892 - 1983
Quelle: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
„But defeat is not the end, it is only a gate or a beginning.“
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Karma
Kontext: If thou think defeat is the end of thee, then go not forth to fight, even though thou be the stronger. For Fate is not purchased by any man nor is Power bound over to her possessors. But defeat is not the end, it is only a gate or a beginning.
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Aurobindo Ghose1
indischer Politiker, Philosoph, Yoga-Meister und Guru 1872 - 1950Ähnliche Zitate
„It is only the darkness in our own hearts that will defeat us, in the end.“
— Alison Croggon, buch The Crow
Quelle: The Crow
— George W. Bush 43rd President of the United States 1946
2000s, 2001, Freedom and Fear Are at War (September 2001)
„Only God knows the beginning and the end.“
— Ben Carson 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon 1951
Quelle: Think Big (1996), p. 122
„There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.“
— Federico Fellini Italian filmmaker 1920 - 1993
Fellini on Fellini (1976) edited by Anna Keel and Christian Strich; translated by Isabel Quigly.
Variante: There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
— Robert Frost, buch Mountain Interval
Mountain Interval (1920), 5. In the Home Stretch, Line 187-192
General sources
Kontext: “My dear,
It’s who first thought the thought. You’re searching, Joe,
For things that don’t exist; I mean beginnings.
Ends and beginnings—there are no such things.
There are only middles.
„The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.“
— Albert Camus French author and journalist 1913 - 1960
Review of Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, published in the newspaper Alger Républicain (20 October 1938), p. 5; also quoted in Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd (2002) by Avi Sagi, p. 43
Kontext: It is the failing of a certain literature to believe that life is tragic because it is wretched.
Life can be magnificent and overwhelming — that is its whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would be almost easy to live. And M. Sartre's hero does not perhaps give us the real meaning of his anguish when he insists on those aspects of man he finds repugnant, instead of basing his reasons for despair on certain of man's signs of greatness.
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.
„Womanliness means only motherhood;
All love begins and ends there.“
— Robert Browning English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era 1812 - 1889
The Inn Album (1875).
„You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.“
— John Irving, buch Garp und wie er die Welt sah
Quelle: The World According to Garp
— Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain
Quelle: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book V : The High King (1968), Chapter 21
Kontext: “Dyrnwyn is yours,” Gwydion said, “as it was meant to be.”
“Yet Arawn is slain,” Taran replied. “Evil is conquered and the blade’s work done.”
“Evil conquered?” said Gwydion. “You have learned much, but learn this last and hardest of lessons. You have conquered only the enchantments of evil. That was the easiest of your tasks, only a beginning, not an ending. Do you believe evil itself so quickly overcome? Not so long as men still hate and slay each other, when greed and anger goad them. Against these even a flaming sword cannot prevail, but only that portion of good in all men’s hearts whose flame can never be quenched.
— Winston S. Churchill Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874 - 1965
speech at Lord Mayor’s Luncheon, Mansion House, London, November 10, 1942 : ( partial text http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/EndoBegn.html)
Referring to the British victory over the German Afrika Korps at the Second Battle of El Alamein in Egypt.
The Second World War (1939–1945)
Variante: This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.
Quelle: Their Finest Hour
— Benjamin Hoff, buch The Tao of Pooh
Quelle: The Tao of Pooh
— Gough Whitlam Australian politician, 21st Prime Minister of Australia 1916 - 2014
Abiding Interests (1997), Foreword
Dr. Rose Marie Toussaint http://haiti.org/dt_team/dr-rose-marie-toussaint/, Pearls of Excellence Exhibit, Haitian Embassy
„My end is my beginning, and my beginning my end.“
— Guillaume de Machaut French poet and composer 1300 - 1377
Ma fin est mon commencement
Et mon commencement ma fin.
"Ma fin est mon commencement", line 1; translation from Donald N. Ferguson A History of Musical Thought (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, [1935] 1948) p. 94.
