Quotes About Finality

It doesn't matter. What matters is that you're about to die.

Parks said, he's guilty and that's the end of the story.

In every parting there is an image of death.

Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any.

Best advice I've ever received: Finish.

Solange man leidet, lebt man doch wenigstens. Ich fürchte mich nicht vor dem Sterben. Ich habe Angst vor dem Tod - einfach, weil dann alles zu Ende ist.

There is no just playing to catch the leader in a pick-and-pray—once your picks are in, that's it.

We're dead anyway, all we get to choose is the exit strategy.

She might be dead, but she was on a plane out of Turin in mid-August.

At last, his companions approached his bedside and implored him to name his successor: To whom do you leave your kingdom? They leaned close to hear his words. With great effort Alexander answered in a whisper: To the strongest. With that, the king of the world closed his eyes and breathed his last.

Novels are nice,' my friend said. 'They stop.' He waggled his fingers to make quotation marks in the air. 'They say, 'The End.' Very nice. A marvelous invention. Here we have stories, but never 'The End.

The sole equality on earth is death.

Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude remains: Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone finality They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love.

I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back.

Time is like the wind That comes in the morning With a barely palpable caress of the cheek Rising to a comfortable caress In its measured passage of the day Until it rises a sudden gale Revealing the irrevocability of its power Trembling our browning leaves And blowing them to our finality.

I am done; I have announced my retirement, so there is no reconsideration. I am not going to shoot again.

I always approach every film I make as if it was going to be the last. So if I'm going to go out, I'm going out with a bang.

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its terrible finality or the havoc it could wreak on those who'd entrusted the deceased with their hearts.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.

Time stops for the duration of a cigarette: when you're smoking, you're acutely present to yourself; you step outside the unconscious rush of life. This is why the condemned are allowed a final cigarette...it's a lot easier to leave the world if you're certain that you have really been in it.

Impossibility is attractive. You know, the safety of dead-ended things.

Mephistopheles: Over! A stupid word. How so over? Over and pure nothing: completely the same thing! "It's over now!" What's that supposed to mean? It's as good as if it never was.

Closure isn't closure until someone's ready to close the door.