Quotes About Finality

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

I think after you write something and you're finished with it, there is a sense of loss. That this is a world I can't really re-enter the way that I could when I was working on it. The covers of the book close it to the writer.

I never want to deal with a book once I'm finished writing.

The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.

We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.

Llegará un día en el que alguien pronunciará por última vez nuestro nombre en el mundo. Es el instante de la muerte definitiva.

El olvido era la muerte postrera y definitiva de las cosas y la gente.

I am dying now, but I still have many things to say.

El silencio de la muerte es el peor de los silencios, porque el silencio rulfiano es un silencio aceptado y el rimbaudiano es un silencio buscado, pero el silencio de la muerte es el que corta de tajo lo que pudo ser y nunca más va a poder ser, lo que no sabremos jamás.

When it left, death didn't even close our eyes.

I hope you die, I said. I hope I die, he said, and then he said: I know I'm going to die.

Cualquiera es capaz de morir»

The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt...He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return.

We all perish in our last attempt to live.

He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return. That, I think, is the shock of any relationship ending. It is realizing that what is still an ongoing relationship to someone is, for the other person, something finished and done with.

Ten times dead was very dead indeed.

I like to leave things tidy. One must leave so many things incomplete in life that I take pleasure in finishing those I can.

But it had taken me years to accept his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangling, waiting for his return. That, I think, is the shock of any relationship ending. It is realizing that what is still an ongoing relationship to someone is, for the other person, something finished and done with.

death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make.

death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make. Am I right?

NO MAN KNOWS the hour of his ending, nor can he choose the place or the manner of his going. To each it is given to die proudly, to die well, and this is, indeed, the final measure of the man.

Let the music stop, the lights die out, and the curtain fall for ever on the March family

John's judgment' on any question was to her always right and the last word.

No need to listen for the fall. This is the world's end.