“Love rests on no foundation.
It is an endless ocean,
with no beginning or end.”
Hush Don't Say Anything to God (1999)
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“Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
“Eternity and Existence,” p. 31
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Skywalking”
Charles Manson (1934–2017) American criminal and musician
Source: Manson in His Own Words: The Shocking Confessions of 'The Most Dangerous Man Alive'
“love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end.”
Graham Greene book The End of the Affair
Source: The End of the Affair
“If emptiness is endless, then everything rests in emptiness.”
Dejan Stojanovic book The Sign and Its Children
"The Sign and Emptiness," p. 9
The Sign and Its Children (2000), Sequence: “The Supreme Sign”
“Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending.”
Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
The Ninth Revelation, Chapter 22
Context: Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending. For which love He said full sweetly these words: If I might suffer more, I would suffer more.
“It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
The Figure a Poem Makes (1939)
Variant: A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Context: It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.
“Womanliness means only motherhood;
All love begins and ends there.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
The Inn Album (1875).
“Love is a wonderful game which begins in fun and ends in marriage.”
Robert Sheckley (1928–2005) American writer
Source: The 10th Victim (1965), Chapter 15 (p. 131)