Quotes About Finality

Dead men tell no tales.

All are equal in the grave.

remember that death is the punctuation at the end of the sentence. It's up to us to decide what kind of punctuation it will be—a period or an exclamation point.

Someone is digging your grave right now.

I didn't want to see it this way, everything eating everything in the end.

Imagine this: You're pulling the car over. Somebody's waiting. You're going to die in your best friend's arms.

If it's dead, don't go digging it up every five minutes to check if there's a pulse. It's dead; walk away.

If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.

It doesn't matter. Take Eddie's blood. Take Belikov's blood. Take your own for all I care. But If she doesn't want to give hers, then that's all there is to it. She said no. This conversation is done.

I shook my head and turned away, unable to hear this. "I'm leaving now. I really don't want to see you again. Nothing personal. Well, yeah, actually it is.

Crazy' is a term that's used incorrectly and far too often. It's also used with stigma and finality." He tapped his head. "We're all chemicals, Adrian. Our bodies, our brains. It's a simple yet vastly sophisticated system, and every so often, something goes awry. A cell mutation. A neuron misfiring. A lack of a neurotransmitter.

I has told you five or six times,' he said, 'and the third will be the last.

The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for---if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most.

All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre— The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.

There was only one way this was going to end, and that was with one of us dead.

I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

Anytime people do something consciously for the last time, Samuel Johnson is reported to have remarked, they feel sad.

Ruhe gibt es nicht, bis zum Schluss. Und dann? Auch am Schluss steht noch ein Fragezeichen. (There is no peace until the end and even then there would still be a question mark.)

Ogen's drool pinged my cheek. This would be my last sight? Almost a relief when my lids slid shut and scenes flashed through my mind. I beheld Jack's face as he'd gazed down at me in that suspended moment of time. So perfectly, I saw him. Heard him. I am home, Evangeline. Finally found the place I'm supposed to be. With my death, would Matthew tell him to stop hunting, to stop searching?

No matter what happens, I want you to know that I dearly wish you could end this game.

His kiss was desperate, a night before the gallows kiss.

When it's over for a woman, it's over. You're not getting an appeal.

All good things must come to an end.

My dear, you are a mathematician. You're even more, you're a philosopher of mathematics. So do this for me: Tell me the final number.