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Quotes About Finality

Ho, ho! from all your furthest bounds, pour ye now in, ye bold billows of my whole foregone life, and top this one piled comber of my death! Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.
~ Herman Melville
And the drawing near of Death, which alike levels all, alike impresses all with a last revelation, which only an author from the dead could adequately tell.
~ Herman Melville
I wonder if – as I tumble towards the waves – I'll have time to get the iPhone out, hit Facebook and change my status to 'Dead'.
~ Iain Banks
Well, it is always easier to succeed at death.
~ Iain Banks
The bitch is dead now.
~ Ian Fleming
But there was only one inevtiable end, and there was nothing they could do but go towards it.
~ Ian Mcewan
In death, they all looked the same. This morning they spoke, they breathed, they kissed their loved ones good-bye. And now they lay dead. Gone forever.
~ Ilona Andrews
It doesn't matter if I'm the first. It only matters that I'll be the last
~ Ilona Andrews
'It is finished' is the triumphant cry that what I came to do has been done. All is accomplished, completed, fulfilled work.
~ Stanley Hauerwas
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
~ Bela Lugosi
Pinhead needed to say goodbye. He had a farewell speech to make. It was truly as simple as that.
~ Clive Barker
Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.
~ John Piper
In a moment, when I'm ready, I will turn off this computer and that will be it. This letter will be finished. A part of me doesn't want to stop writing to you, but I need to. For both of us.
~ Lucy Christopher
The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars. Oh starry starry night! This is how I want to die.
~ Anne Sexton
The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
~ Anne Enright
The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase--our coffin.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Some things went beyond a single man's life, and maybe justice existed outside the minds of humanity, beyond even the hungry eyes of gods and goddesses, a thing shining and pure and final.
~ Steven Erikson
To draw a weapon is to announce an end to uncertainty.
~ Steven Erikson
There are ways of leaving. The worst of these is also the most final.
~ Steven Erikson
Some things went beyond a single man's life, and maybe justice existed outside the minds of humanity, beyond even the hungry eyes of gods and goddesses, a thing shining and pure and final.
~ Steven Erikson
To stand in the heart of Dragnipur, to stand above the very Gate of Darkness, this was, for Anomander Rake, a most final act. Perhaps it was desperation. Or a sacrifice beyond all mortal measure.
~ Steven Erikson
Empuñar la espada es el último acto de un hombre desesperado.
~ Steven Erikson
You can shake your fist all you want but dead is dead.
~ Steven Erikson
Now, after all this time, he was able to realize that every path eventually, inevitably dwindled into a single line of footsteps. There, leading to the very edge. Then…gone. And so, he faced only what every mortal faced. The solitude of death, and oblivion's final gift that was indifference.
~ Steven Erikson