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Quotes About Finality

Closure is for jars, books, and closet doors.
~ James Sallis
When a clock dies no one wakes.
~ James Tate
I hope I die in the night.
~ Donna Tartt
At pointblank range, there was no possibility of missing. He aimed into the fair, weary, rancourless face, and then at the heart, and both balls found their mark and brought death in the end, not with the sweet ambiguity of an arrow but with the finality which frees the earth at once of body and soul, and all that was good or bad in either.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
But He, unshaken, with exultant voice cried, It is finished! and gave up the ghost. Finished--when men had thought it scarce begun.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
And so the Universe ended.
~ Douglas Adams
Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.
~ Douglas Adams
Time is the best killer.
~ Agatha Christie
He thought: Best of an island is once you get there—you can't go any farther … you've come to the end of things…. He knew, suddenly, that he didn't want to leave the island. VI
~ Agatha Christie
Wwhat the hell? Weve all got to die sometime!
~ Agatha Christie
Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any further... you've got to the end of things.
~ Agatha Christie
Cher ami!" Poirot had said to me as I left the room. They were the last words I was ever to hear him say. For when Curtiss came to attend to his master he found that master dead.
~ Agatha Christie
It´s true, isn´t it? We´re all waiting for the end.
~ Agatha Christie
When he was gone I blocked his number and then deleted it from my phone. When I say good bye I mean it.
~ Alafair Burke
when at last they'd had to admit to themselves that they'd made all the love they could, had been a last meal. Like
~ Alan Furst
In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
~ Alan Lightman
It is far, far better to close off a possibility, for ever, than to cling to some silly hope.
~ Alastair Reynolds
Soon there would be a final morning, a final afternoon, a final sunrise. She measured her life by these thoughts and then reprimanded herself for not simply enjoying such pleasures while she still could.
~ Alastair Reynolds
When you finish a record, I look at it like a photograph. It's already taken. You got it the way you wanted it to be. You edit it, make sure the light and contrast are right, then you just put it away, and that's your photograph. Then you don't really think about it anymore.
~ Brian Fallon
I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.
~ David Tudor
I think the writing on the wall is definitely there this year that this is probably our last year.
~ Michael Shanks
However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the end.
~ Rachel Ward
You can not escape death: the end always reach you.
~ Rachel Ward
No se puede escapar a la muerte: al final siempre te alcanza.
~ Rachel Ward