John Ashbery Quotes

The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.

As far as I'm concerned, my life is just beginning. It's never too late to start over, so this is what I've been doing.

Today is a brand new beginning for me!

You can have a do-over starting today. But you have to get over the feeling that it's too late

I realize something. That wasn't a finish line for me...This is my new starting line.

So where do you start when you want to start your life again?

I think we all agree, the past is over.

I like to approach every day like it's my first, so this morning when I woke up I covered my body with red gelatin.

His door is closed behind me. It's staying closed. He's letting me go. I think I've made myself very clear, but no ones stepping forward to stop me. A lot of you cared, just not enough. And that...that is what i needed to find out. And I did find out. And I'm sorry.

It is never too late to begin rebuilding, Though all into ruins your life seems hurled; For see! how the light of the New Year is gilding The wan, worn face of the bruised old world.

I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.

Makes sense to me. Sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs. And I think it's admirable. A lot of people don't have the courage it takes to do something like that.

It is possible to have second chances. When I thought everything was lost, when I reached bottom and things didn't go my way, the universe gave me a second chance.

It's okay to start over again.

It's too late and it's too bad, don't think of me.

No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.

I'm starting a new chapter in my [[life], and you have no idea how much that means.

You can make a fresh start with your final breath.

To make an end is to make a beginning.

It's been said that every new beginning in some other beginning's end.

It's time for second chances. It's time to remake the world.

Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)

In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives.

The first day of the rest of my life.

It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.