“Is death truly the end or is it a stage, a continuation, a passing over, a new beginning, or a metamorphosis?”
Anthony Mizzi
“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.”
W. M. Lewis
“I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.”
Harold Kushner
“The entire story of 'Elizabethtown' arrived quickly, ... a tale of love and loss and the discovery of family roots in the aftermath of a very black turn of events in the life of a young shoe designer, Orlando Bloom. It was a story that would start with an ending and end with a beginning and, I hoped, give a sense of what it was to be truly alive.”
Cameron Crowe
“Each day is the beginning and the ending of my life.”
Lorrin L. Lee
“The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.”
Mary Catherine Bateson
“Where annual elections end, there slavery begins”
John Adams