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Quotes About Finality

At that time, of course, Natalie reflected with contentment, her life would be done. There would be no further fears for Natalie, no possibility of walking wrong when you were no more than a skull in a strange man´s hands.
~ Shirley Jackson
People have to live and die somewhere, after all
~ Shirley Jackson
Dying is the same all over. It's death that kills them.
~ Sholem Aleichem
the absolute could be enclosed within the last moments of a dying person.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Je ne tenais pas particulièrement à revoir maman avant sa mort; mais je ne supportais pas l'idée qu'elle ne me reverrait pas. Pourquoi accorder tant d'importance à un instant, puisqu'il n'y aura pas de mémoire? Il n'y aura pas non plus de réparation. J'ai compris pour mon propre compte, jusque dans la moelle de mes os, que dans les derniers moments d'un moribond on puisse enfermer l'absolu.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
If we apply to the present the point of that desire within us which corresponds to finality, it pierces right through to the eternal.
~ Simone Weil
come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last
~ Sir Walter Scott
Sir Richard Glendale lifted the fatal paper, read it, and saying, 'Now all is indeed over,' handed it to Maxwell, who said aloud, 'Black Colin Campbell...
~ Sir Walter Scott
I am at the end. I exist no more.
~ Sophocles
Come, Fate, a friend at need, Come with all speed! Come, my best friend, And speed my end! Away, away! Let me not look upon another day!
~ Sophocles
O god— all come true, all burst to light! O light—now let me look my last on you!
~ Sophocles
I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.
~ Gore Vidal
Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned.
~ James M. Barrie
If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.
~ Christopher Morley
In the end, all or nothing will matter.
~ Jay Mark D. Saga-ad
The meaning of life is that it ends
~ Franz Kafka
If your life was complete, you'd be dead.
~ Joshua Wisenbaker
Life is but a breath.The end of life is the last breath of a man.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Death is the first and final entry in the book of this life.
~ Kevin Focke
Death is the greatest goal of anyone. It is something no other living human can achieve
~ Davis Carlson
God help us all but he was right. It was time for him to die. There was nothing for him to do today, there was nothing for him to do today.… There, that was settled. Now let the whole thing begin again.
~ John O'Hara
Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.
~ John Piper
This is the last of earth! I am content.
~ John Quincy Adams