Quotes About Finality

The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's 'Nightline.'

This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be.

You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell.

That's the end. I have to turn off the light now. Good night.

If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here and they're over, and that has to be enough. The other view is a lie of literature and the liberal arts, which is why I did not succeed as a teacher, and another reason I put my novel away in the drawer and have not taken it out.

We're all alive the day before we die.

Certe volte penso che lo scopo dell'esistenza sia quello di riconciliarci, per sfinimento, con la sua perdita finale, dimostrandoci che, indipendentemente dal tempo che ci vorrà, la vita non è affatto all'altezza della propria fama. da Il senso di una fine

And then there is the inevitable third stylisation—of posthumous memory. Leading to the moment when the last living person to remember you has their very last thought about you. There ought to be a name for that final event, which marks your final extinction.

Ich glaube nicht, dass ich sie je wiedersehen werde. Ich werde sie nie wieder sehen, hören, berühren, in den Armen halten, ihr zuhören, mit ihr lachen; nie wieder auf ihre Schritte horchen, lächeln, wenn eine Tür aufgeht; nie wieder ihren Körper an meinen, meinen an ihren drücken. Ich glaube auch nicht, dass wir uns in entmaterialisierter Form wiedertreffen. Ich glaube, tot ist tot.

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

Last words are for fools who haven't said enough

Ursula tried to remember what her own last words to her father had been. A nonchalant 'See you later,' she concluded. The final irony. 'We never know when it will be the last time,' she said...

Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck.

Dead men always have the last laugh. They win. They're dead. You can't hurt their feelings anymore.

Dead men have no victory.

It is the lot of man but once to die.

The grave is sooner cloy'd than men's desire.

There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.

When a rules man gives you a ruling, that's it. Amen.

Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid.

Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.

You have to be 100% sure [about brexit] because there's no going back on Friday morning and your decision could cost someone else their job.

Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.

When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.