"Why are you so surprised? You have wandered in great circles across the planes in these countless lives you have lived. Such symmetry. Such futility. Go now, back to where it began. Go back, and die."
— Trias the Betrayer, Planescape: Torment
"This story, like all good stories, begins where it ends: in a tower, in a realm that is no more..."
— April Ryan, The Longest Journey
"The very last stroke. But to think that it should fall here, at the very door of Bag End! Among all my hopes and fears at least I never expected that."
— Frodo, The Lord of the Rings
"Our struggle ends where it began, Autobot! Aboard this ship!"
— Megatron, Transformers: Animated, "Megatron Rising"
Megatron: It appears you and I are destined to battle aboard this ship once more, Autobot.
Optimus: Bring it on, Decepticon.
Optimus: Bring it on, Decepticon.
— Transformers: Animated, "Transwarped"
"Imbeciles. After all the trouble you've gone to, you're about to die right where you started. [sniff] It's so... poetic."
"Jack! This is where we first met"
— Rose, about the poop deck of the sinking Titanic (1997)
We move in circles
Balanced all the while
On a gleaming razor's edge
A perfect sphere
Colliding with our fate
This story ends where it began
Balanced all the while
On a gleaming razor's edge
A perfect sphere
Colliding with our fate
This story ends where it began
— Octavarium, Dream Theater
"You took my family from me so that I could have yours. We will welcome them, with open arms... just as we will welcome you. We will be waiting for you where it all began."
— Joseph Seed, Far Cry 5
Unconquered city on Vltavas shore
Is protected by its people
And thirty years ago the war begun
It has returned to where it started
Is protected by its people
And thirty years ago the war begun
It has returned to where it started
—1648, Sabaton
