Quotes About Finality

Hasta que la luz se desvanezca, hasta que el agua se agote, hacia la Sombra con las mandíbulas comprimidas, gritando con desafío con la última exhalación, para escupir en el ojo del Cegador de la vista en el día final

His final words were reported to be, "Kiss my ass.

It's so beautiful that it hurts me,' said Anne softly. 'Perfect things like that always did hurt me — I remember I called it the queer ache when I was a child. What is the reason that pain like this seems inseparable from perfection? Is it the pain of finality — when we realise that there can be nothing beyond but retrogression?' 'Perhaps,' said Owen dreamily, 'it is the prisoned infinite in us calling out to its kindred infinite as expressed in that visible perfection.

The only thing she really enjoyed was a funeral. You knew where you were with a corpse. Nothing more could happen to it. But while there was life there was fear.

If you're planning on dying today I hope you dig your grave first.

They're finished," Bigfoot said. "We've all got a finishing point. These boys have just come to theirs.

Death cures all ills. Well, most of them.

I hated missing the end of anything. I was always convinced that the bit I'd miss would be the best part.

Only death was final, and without hope; short of that, there were options.

Broken leaves flew into the air from the violence of his thrashing, and the gore and blood kept pouring from the black hole in his belly and from his mouth - surely enough blood for ten men, a sight horrid enough to make God Himself weep - and suddenly, his boots stopped running and his form stilled and then......Death caught him.

THE END OF a case is always long, tedious, and anticlimactic

Death is the saddest part of life.

Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.

There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.

The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda.

We all end up dying in the end. It's just a question of how and when.

The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment.

Ivan Klima dice: casi nada se parece tanto a la muerte como el amor realizado. Cada aparición de cualquiera de los dos es única pero definitiva, irrepetible, inapelable e impostergable.

It is difficult to want to tell a grave that it is not immortal. It's so obvious at that point.

In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.

The meaning of life,' wrote Kafka, reputedly, 'is that it stops.

I don't mess around with the men in the coven, especially my Shadowblades," she said with quiet finality. Flirting was one thing but anything more, it was a mistake of epic proportions. His eyes narrowed and he gave a slow shake of his head. "That is all right then. Because I want so much more than just to mess around.

The word of the justifying grace of God never departs from its position as the final word; it never yields itself simply as a result that has been achieved. . . . The word remains irreversibly the last; for otherwise it would be reduced to the quality of what is calculable, a merchandise, and would thereby be robbed of its divine character. Grace would be venal and cheap. It would not be a gift.1 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics

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