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"Still ending, and beginning still." William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book III, line 627.
"He is born naked, and falls a whining at the first." – Robert Burton, "The Anatomy of Melancholy" (1621), Part I, Section II. Mem. 3. Subsect. 10.
"The realization that life is absurd and 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." – Albert Camus, "The Reading Room," Alger Républicain (1938) critiquing "Nausea" by Jean-Paul Sartre.