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Quotes About Finality

I promise. and as I said it I felt that from that instant a door had been shut between us.
~ Bram Stoker
In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose.
~ Susanna Kaysen
When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No fanfare, no metaphor, no brilliant final words. The culmination of the most influential piece of dramatic literature is, 'He dies.' Now I am not asking you to be happy at my leaving but all I ask you to do is to turn the page and let the next story begin. -- Mr. Magorium
~ Suzanne Weyn
There is a word, sad and resonant, for the last member of a dying species. The word is endling.
~ Sy Montgomery
Everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end.
~ Sylvia Plath
It always has to end, doesn't it? We always have to separate.' 'Yes,' I said. He was insistent, 'But it doesn't always have to be that way. We could be together some day for always.' 'Oh, no,' I told him, wondering if he knew it was all over. 'We keep running till we die. We separate, get further apart, till we are dead.
~ Sylvia Plath
I wanted to do everything once and for all and be through with it.
~ Sylvia Plath
The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not so fast, nor with such manic, unanswerable finality.
~ Sylvia Plath
It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next. It made me tired just to think of it. I wanted to do everything once and for all and be through with it.
~ Sylvia Plath
Van valami végleges abban, ahogyan valaki elt?nik lassan az úton, nem fordul meg, nem néz vissza. (…) Van valami végtelenül nyomorúságos, végtelenül végleges az üres útban. Csak mégy tovább, hallgatsz. (Egy júniusi nap)
~ Sylvia Plath
die letzte brücke.
~ Sylvia Plath
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.
~ T.S. Eliot
So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.
~ Tad Williams
And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
~ Tennessee Williams
We've about come to the end of the line in this friendly enemies routine. Fair warning.
~ Julian May
He's dead, Jim,
~ Julie Campbell
De nouveau il entendit la porte s'ouvrir, et, calme, du fond de la chambre, il vit venir à lui sa dernière heure.
~ Julien Gracq
Antes de caer en la nada con el último diástole
~ Julio Cortazar
Libertad es decir adhesión a lo que finalmente y cada día (cada día es siempre el último, lo finalmente) sabemos bueno, bello, verdadero.
~ Julio Cortazar
Esa tendencia del hombre a terminar limpiamente lo que hace, sin dejar hilachas colgando
~ Julio Cortázar, Rayuela
And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.
~ Junot Diaz
We didn't know it was the last days but we should have.
~ Junot Diaz
And that's when I know it´s over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.
~ Junot Diaz
All things found their ends.
~ Justin Cronin