Quotes About Finality

Life is so fragile. You're here, then you're not, and it's final, no going back, no changing anything at all.

death is the most helpless and irrevocable of states.

She is dead. Almost certainly dead. Nearly conclusively dead. She is, at the very least, not answering her telephone.

now he sensed that she was saying goodbye to him

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

But everything is remembered by its moment of greatest intensity. Dying

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

You know why they invented the phrase 'case closed'? What? So that the audience would know it wasn't.

Goodbye cruel world.

Dying ain't pretty. Death is beautiful.

The first breath is the beginning of death.

Death is just a final breath.

Death is a sudden silence — one of those deafening silences that leaves ringing in your ears.

Dismount and kneel before me, that I may strike off your head with fullest ease. You shall die in this tragic golden light of sunset.

What if this really is goodbye? What if this is the last time you ever see your mum?

That's what makes death so hard—unsatisfied curiosity. —BERYL MARKHAM, West with the Night1

I want one last look at something beautiful. I want one last look so that I have something to hold in my mind while I'm dying, so that when I take my last breath I will be able to think of something that will make me smile, so that in the midst of the horror I can hold on to some shred of humanity.

I am going to die. When I die I will be dead, gone, no more. There will be no more thinking, no more breathing, no more feeling of any kind. There will blackness and the blackness will be eternal. There will be silence and the silence will last forever. I am going to die.

I have always been uncomfortable with a series of movies. I hate that word 'franchise' - it always makes me think of French fries. What I felt each time was that we were going for broke, that this was going to be the last in the series. You can't count on anything.

The world is going to end for each of us in a prescribed time, and you sort of understand that your time is limited at a certain point, and you want to get done the things you want to get done. You don't want to leave things undone, because you only have a limited amount of time.

Death is not considerate, or fair.

Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Is that all?

I think what's different about working on stage is that you have another chance to portray it again. If you don't get something right on film, you can do another take, but on stage, once it's done, it's done. You can't go back.

You can know that the final show is coming up, and prepare yourself for it mentally, but when it finally occurs, it's like a dream. You stand there feeling the love the audience has for you, and you think, 'Is this really going to end?