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Quotes About Finality

What if this present were the world's last night?
~ John Donne
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
~ John Donne
Amen"—so be it, there is nothing more to be said.
~ John Dunlop
My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.
~ Christopher Hitchens
I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.
~ Isabelle Eberhardt
Nothing is promised in life except death.
~ Kanye West
There is no solution to death.Life intends to kill us.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Life as we know it is a death sentence.
~ Joseph Curiale
The end of a life is always vivifying.
~ Samuel Beckett
We're all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.
~ Will Schwalbe
The sands are number'd that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end.
~ William Shakespeare
The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth.
~ Alan Ball
How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the not being able to turn round in the grave and to say It is over.
~ Edward Thomas
in life, certain choices are like dying. Final, with no hope of ever turning back. You simply have to get through it with as much grace as you can muster.
~ Eileen Goudge
A coffin striking earth is indisputably something serious." - from "At the Burial of a Friend
~ Antonio Machado
Well…Shit." They were, as last words go, not terribly inspired. But
~ Ari Marmell
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
~ Aristotle
The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.
~ Aristotle
The moment you're born you're done for.
~ Arnold Bennett
I'd just like to retire quietly with dignity, secure in the knowledge that no more comedies will ever be made now that I'm gone.
~ Megan Mullally
I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.
~ Holland Taylor
When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.
~ Wilbur Smith
There is nothing glamorous about death.
~ Roger Moore
There's nothing glamorous about being dead.
~ Loni Anderson