Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

The line reframes endings—departures, failures, even death—as thresholds rather than dead-ends. By treating an “exit” as simultaneously an “entrance,” it suggests that loss and closure can be understood as transitions into new roles, places, or states of mind. The aphorism encourages resilience and imaginative perspective: what looks like being shut out may also be a way in elsewhere, if one is willing to change vantage point. In a broader Stoppardian spirit, it also hints at theatricality and structure—doors, scenes, and stage directions—where leaving one space is literally the means of arriving in another, and meaning depends on how the audience reads the movement.