Quotes About Finality

Death is a mighty, universal truth.

In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.

Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final.

In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the world. I would say that much on the subject with my last breath.

It is finished.

Time's up! Tomorrow just arrived.

However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the end.

The day you ever have that much control over my behavior, it will be because somebody's asking you, should she get the pine box or a plain white shroud?

Good-bye, Harry.

closers. So let's close this one out." Bosch and Rider stood

I read once in a book that it doesn't matter if you're lying beneath a marble tombstone on a hill or at the bottom of an oil sump, when you're dead you're dead.

What did Shakespeare say? Or little lives are rounded with a sleep.

I shut my eyes, turned away for a moment, and it came: a shiver of finality like the one when you decide, in your own mind, that you're going to have to tell someone who loves you that you don't want to be with them anymore. Terror, and relief; relief and terror, so intermingled that they feel like the same thought.

We all end up dying in the end. It's just a question of how and when.

I can't deal in ifs or in hypothetical situations. I only deal in absolutes.

I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through.

I'm the person with the final say on everything. I really love being in that position.

One of the advantages of -- of this -- is that dying men are allowed complete and brutal candor.

Ultimul act e sângeros; oricât de frumoas? ar fi comedia în rest; ni se arunc? p?mânt în cap ÅŸi cu asta se încheie totul pentru totdeauna.

The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play. They throw earth over your head and it is finished forever.

Le dernier acte est sanglant, quelque belle soit la comédie en tout le reste.

There is no equality. The only thing people all have in common is that they are all going to die.

Life takes time. Death, however, reveals itself in an instant.

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious!