Quotes About Finality

And I'd be struck a new by the finality of Ruth's absence.

Geen drenkeling zal ooit weten welke waterdruppel hem zijn laatste adem benam...

As the warm air blew in the car, simple snapshots of the life they'd lived together surfaced in his mind; but as always, those images led inexorably to their final day together.

He was dead. He just didn't know it yet.

There was a certain feminine satisfaction in having the last word, delivering her line smartly, and breaking the connection between them quickly and decisively.

I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire, who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.

Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you — free.

Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free.—Kingsley Amis

My father had died, and very swiftly too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was seventy-nine. I am sixty-one. In whatever kind of 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

lying on "mattress graves.

He'd lost all fear of Death's embrace, The last embrace a man will know.

Death comes for the dead.

Mors est quiest viatoris – finis est omnis laboris.

Now he was passing from the playing space with no role left to play but this last one of dying, that comes to all.

You were right to come to see a dying man. It is right that these moments should have witnesses. Everyone has his dream; I would like to live till dawn, but I know I have less than three hours left. It will be night, but no matter. Dying is simple. It does not take daylight. So be it: I will die by starlight

When infinity opens to us, terrible indeed is the closing of the gate behind.

You have done well to come and look at a man who is on the point of death. It is well that there should be witnesses at that moment.

Forgiveness doesn't matter, does it, Dean? When a thing is done, it's done. You can't unring a bell.

Once you've decided to die, the plan gets easy

Christ. Time is short, don't you understand that? We bump along, blindly assuming we have forever to do things, say things…but we don't. You can feel perfectly fine, and go to your annual checkup on a sunny Wednesday afternoon, and discover that your time's up. Game over.

Some chapters must be finished, though, some books closed.

Everything has to come to an end, sometime.

I want to kiss you one more time before I die.

Life is full of risks. Death is much simpler.