Quotes About Finality

You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesnt mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.

My railings against the platonists are a thing of the past. Assuming at last that one could, what would be the advantage of ignoring the transcendent nature of mathematical truths. There is nothing else that all men are compelled to agree upon, and when the last light in the last eye fades to black and takes all speculation with it forever I think it could even be that these truths will glow for just a moment in the final light. Before the dark and the cold claim everything.

Here is a small fact. You are going to die. Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

Sometimes, Jake, disappeared is worse than dead. With dead, at least there's an end.

For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.

And then, he was not there. A terrible storm came over her, as if she were drowning. She was possessed by a devastating hopelessness. And she approached mechanically to the altar. Never had she known such a pang of utter and final hopelessness. It was beyond death, so utterly null, desert.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

That Tuesday afternoon, he kept staring into his children's eyes. At one point he looked at Patty and his children for a long time, then at Laurene, and finally gazed past them into the distance. "Oh wow," he said. "Oh wow. Oh wow." Those were his final words before he drifted into unconsciousness sometime around two that afternoon.

Print encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalized, has reached a state of completion.

When you reach perfection, it's a sure bet you can't get any better.

come on, you" (last words from flight 128)

You can't tell a dead man you're sorry.

Final words are hard to hear when you know for certain they are indeed final. And I knew for certain.

We're all going to die, Johnny. Hit the iron bell like it's dinnertime.

fragility of life, finality of death

The speedway ends at the cemetery.

We born alone, we all die alone.

PorzÄ…dek historyczny okazuje siÄ™ tylko porzÄ…dkiem umierania.

My wiedzieli?my, ?e trzeba umiera? publicznie, na oczach ?wiata.

I believe the last thing that runs through the brain of a dying man is hope.

LIFE" made it possible, "DEATH" made it necessary!

The buck stops here.

Fuck you! I hope you die!" "Everybody Dies," I said. "So fuck you.

Death strips all men of dignity.