Quotes About Finality

Only language knows no conceptual, no projective finality.

death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return

I already knew this immense tenderness, which is only the last degree of sorrow… I knew then, already, that the intimacy of things is death.

My problem is, I give something a lot of time and space, but once it's over, it's over.

Once it gets down to single-digit games, you know the season's end is approaching, and we're all pretty physically tired.

I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.

The quality that all last words share: the silence after.

I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call undue attention to the glaring fact that I cannot think in complete sentences, that I think only in short fragments or long, run-on thought relays that the literati call stream of consciousness but I still like to think of as disdain for the finality of the period).

Death is nothing but to the last chance to meet the god

It was not my physical being, however, which was descending, but rather my mind. It was as if the thinking, reasoning part of my being was closing with the finality of a heavy, locked door.

I've wanted to die for a long time and one day, I'm going out like a Texas lightning storm – big, bold, beautiful, deadly, dead and done with.

For every one of us, living in this world means waiting for our end.

Everything you see, you might be seeing for the last time.

I should say nothing! I'm through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.

Every day travels toward death; the last only arrives at it.

It is time to leave. Oprah has spoken.

Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

I want to kiss you one more time before I die.

The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever.

Once I'm done with a book, I'm done! I'm just not a sequel kind of girl. By the time I've finished a book I've read it so many times that it's time to move on.

We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.

Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time.

Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.

And so Yoshimi heard the dry pop one more time. Her forehead felt as if it were being crushed by a car. That was all.