Gertrude Stein Quotes

In the end, there is no end.

Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.

What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.

And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end.

In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?

We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity.

The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles.

The more change, the more it's the same thing.

Immortality is but ubiquity in time.

It's the same questions we ask of our existence, and the answer is always the same. The mystery lies not in the question nor the answer, but in the asking and answering themselves, over and over again, and the end is engendered in the beginning.

Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun

There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward-toward what?

Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.

The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify?

Life is a cycle of ends and starts.

Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet .

Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?” "...I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning." "Well reasoned.

The end of 'The End' is the best place to begin 'The End', because if you read 'The End' from the beginning of the beginning of 'The End' to the end of the end of 'The End', you will arrive at the end.

Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle.

Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.

There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again.

Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.