Quotes About Finality

Death is the same for the one who dies.

In a world full of uncertainties, is it not inherently satisfying to come to the last page with every i dotted and every t crossed?

Well, we were never coming back to Fox... that was clear.

I want my funeral to be uncomfortably quiet.

It was time to lie down and die.

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife—chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now, it's complete because it's ended here.

Arrakis enseña la actitud del cuchillo... cortar lo que es incompleto y decir: Ahora ya está completo porque acaba aquí» De Frases escogidas de Muad'Dib, por la Princesa Irulan.

Unde este substanÈ›a, într-un univers alc?tuit din evenimente? (...) Exist? vreun r?spuns final? Nu genereaz? fiecare soluÈ›ie noi întreb?ri?

The meaning of life is that it ends.

Then his head sank to the floor of its own accord and from his nostrils came the last faint flicker of his breath.

I will probably die in silence, surrounded by silence

If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette.

Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it's an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I think that I'll think of it very much as the final sort of final moment for this book and put it behind me along with the rest of the book, as I write more books.

Once I close the doors, it's closed. I don't open it back up. That's kind of me as a human being. That's just one of the things about me... But yeah, for me, I don't close anything until I'm officially done.

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done.

I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath.

The finality of her leaving allowed me to reclaim the places that had once been ours as mine, to say good-bye to my childhood parks and hiking trails rather than grasping for lost moments with a lost girl who refused to be found.

Here have I come to die,' he said, 'and where else could I ask to die but in your arms?

There are ways of Deceiving the Eyes, as well as of Blinding them; so that the Cause of the Innocent must be remitted at last to that Great and Final Decision, where there is no longer any Place for Passion, Partiality, Corruption, or Error. But as to the Business of This World, when the Cocks and the Lambs lie at the Mercy of the Cats and Wolves, they must never expect better Quarter; especially where the Hearts Blood of the One, is the Nourishment and Entertainment of the Other.

There is nothing glamorous about death.

The Guardians perceived cycles, not finality.

Death is much like an alarm clock except there is never a snooze button to give you just a moment more, before you really have to wake.

The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death.

The best for me, perhaps, would be if I could lie down one evening and not wake up again.