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Quotes About Finality

Everything must come to an end, you know!
~ Paul Reginald Siles
It's better to go out with a bang and a press release than with a whimper and a secret.
~ Mira Grant, Deadline
When you're dead, you're done.
~ Louis Armstrong
Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.
~ Stephen Crane
To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.
~ Charles Dickens
It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.
~ Susan Sontag
Peace is a certificate you get in the grave.
~ Peter Tosh
Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.
~ Immanuel Kant
One deep breath, one last step and out into oblivion where death held out its arms into a welcoming embrace.
~ Stephen Craig, The Last Step
This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.
~ T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men
In baseball when they say you're out, you're out. It's the same way in politics.
~ Gerald R. Ford
I'll make a beautiful corpse.
~ Will Hobbs
We're all in the end-of-your-life book-club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.
~ Will Schwalbe
We're all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.
~ Will Schwalbe
I guess we're all in it together," she said. And I couldn't help but smile at the other meaning of the phrase. We're all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one. I
~ Will Schwalbe
Loose ends are only tied up in books.
~ William Brodrick
The perfect man of action, is the suicide.
~ William Carlos Williams
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but it serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment; therefore the principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.
~ WILLIAM J. BRENNAN
Judges are not final because they are infallible, but they are infallible only because they are final.
~ WILLIAM J. BRENNAN
The dead. No more'n a breath. You let that last one go and you're with them again.
~ William Kent Krueger
If she'd still had sight, her eyes would have beheld a wonderful view from the few feet of earth that were to be hers forever.
~ William Kent Krueger
When God says something, the argument is over.
~ R. C. Sproul
You can bet everything will come to an end. It's going to be ugly and it's going to be a mess, and it's going to be something that somebody did in the name of God.
~ Frank Zappa
Get ready to die, tell God I say hi.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.