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Quotes About Finality

Nothing is my last word on anything.
~ Henry James
I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
~ Henry James
Don't people always feel better just before the end?
~ Henry James
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.
~ Warren E. Burger
O starry night, This is how I want to die
~ Anne Sexton
because although she is very pretty, she is also very dead, and dead trumps pretty much everything.
~ Stephen Carpenter
Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.
~ Stephen Crane
David knew what it was to be a man. As he lay dying, he called his son Solomon to his bedside and gave him final instructions: "I am about to go the way of all the earth. So be strong and show yourself a man." These are the last recorded words of one of the greatest kings to ever live. Of all he might have said to his son with his final breath, he chose to instruct him to be a man. They are words we should never forget.
~ Stephen Mansfield
Suicides - you read of it…but you don't know the truth, if you were to see it you would go insane! Cut throats, cut wrists, hangings, suffocating, eyes bulging and tongues protruding, more shit. Suicides always shit themselves, did you know that! Life's final shit, the final act of madness; smell that you rats! Clean me up you pigs, zip me up in the bag you scum and get me out of here… Get me the fuck out of here…get me out!
~ Stephen Richards
I think if you're going to kill somebody, kill them! Don't stand around talking about it!
~ Stephen Sommers
Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.
~ Stephenie Meyer
Shake your fist all you want but dead is dead.
~ Steven Erikson
Quand elle n'est pas celle du mort, la voix-off de narrateur est souvent celle du presque-mort, de celui qui a achevé le cours de sa vie et n'attend que la mort.
~ Michel Chion
Death is not one of our social managements; it is a scene with one character.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Todos los días van hacia la muerte, el último la alcanza.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage.
~ Michel de Montaigne
All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Druga ?wie?o?? to nonsens! ?wie?o?? bywa tylko jedna - pierwsza, i tym razem ostatnia.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.
~ Milan Kundera
A person's destiny often ends before his death.
~ Milan Kundera
All he knew about old age was that it a time when a person had passed his maturity; when fate had ended; when there was no longer any need to fear that terrible mystery called the future; when every love than came along was certain and final.
~ Milan Kundera
Ya?am ne kadar ac?mas?z olursa olsun, mezarl?kta hep huzur vard?r.
~ Milan Kundera
Si una tumba está cubierta por una lápida, el muerto ya nunca podrá salir.
~ Milan Kundera