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Quotes About Finality

And you came home? To die. Yes. To die? Yes. To die.
~ William Faulkner
But that competitor was Death, and Roger Shumann lost.
~ William Faulkner
It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.
~ William Faulkner
His toes were making little squelching noises, each time he took a step, and what if the last thing you knew before you died was just some pathetic discomfort like that, like your shoes were soaked and your socks were wet, and you weren't ever going to get to change them? Rydell
~ William Gibson
When this is over we will see who is right, and who is dead.
~ William Goldman
It must have been fifty seconds before Doc died. Long time.
~ William Goldman
The immutable, awful quiet of a dying world.
~ William Hope Hodgson
These felt very much like last moments.
~ China Mieville
Create a need for closure.
~ Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Left alone to die on a frozen hill! I, whose life had been a rush of attending to the needs of my five husbands—how ironic that at the moment of my own final need not one of them should be with me!
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
There are times in people's lives when a significant event occurs and they're not aware of it—the last time you pick up a son before he's too heavy, the final kiss of a marriage gone bad, the view of a beloved landscape you'll never see again. Weeks later, I realized those were Dad's last words to me.
~ Chris Offutt
When Death comes, I want to be ready.
~ Chris Smith
Death is almost never timely, even for the old.
~ Christopher Bram
cannot remember that my heart stopped beating at any particular time,' he wrote in his diary. 'The blow was so stunning, so final after six weeks of unremitting faith, that it was tempered to me as being beyond my appreciation. Death will be like this, something too vast to hurt much or perhaps even to upset me.' His
~ Helen Macdonald
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying which is terrible.
~ Henry Fielding
I'm not going to bother with you anymore I don't need all the extra thought I got enough right now as it is Not going to wait for your phone calls Not going to think about you And what it would be like it were different It's not different It's like this
~ Henry Rollins
You're going to do what you're going to do and that's all there is. That's all you got and that's that.
~ Henry Rollins
He saw nothing but death or the advance towards death in everything.
~ Leo Tolstoy
You'll die and all will end. You'll die and know all, or cease asking.
~ Leo Tolstoy
it's closing time
~ Leonard Cohen
A story always ends just when it comes to an end. Like a breath.
~ Leonie Swann
One has to be careful what one takes when one goes away forever.
~ Leonora Carrington
Headstone: death's bookmark.
~ Les Coleman
I mean there's a certain finality about a movie, when it's done it's done -- that raised eyebrow in that moment will always be that raised eyebrow. Whereas a play only lives as a blueprint for a performance on any given night. There's a reason you can eat popcorn and watch a movie and you can't do that in the theatre. Theatre you have to lean in, you have to tune your ear to the stage and participate.
~ letts tracy