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Quotes About Finality

In Greek, the words translated "it is finished" is tetelistai. It means, "The debt has been paid in full!
~ Chuck D. Pierce
Así como nadie le enseñaría un día a morir: seguramente un día moriría como si antes se hubiese estudiado de memoria la representación del papel de una estrella. Pues en la hora de la muerte las personas se vuelven brillantes estrellas de cine, es el instante de gloria de cada uno y es como cuando en el canto coral se oyen agudos silbantes.
~ Clarice Lispector
to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.
~ Herman Melville
The dead do not negotiate.
~ Hilary Mantel
if you're dead, Peterborough is as good a place as any.
~ Hilary Mantel
Well, ' he says, 'if you're dead, Peterborough is as good a place as any.
~ Hilary Mantel
He's quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.
~ Holly Black
There's no way out, she reminded herself. There's only what you do before you die.
~ Holly Black
If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic. She'd seen a lot of old movies, and that was definitely the way to go out.
~ Holly Black
Mom didn't move. Mom and Dad were dead. They were never going to move again.
~ Holly Black
But for one final night, he's the father I remember best
~ Holly Black
And if I am particularly kind that evening, particularly deferential, if I laugh particularly loudly, it is because I know I will never do this again. I will never have him behave like this with me again. But for one final night, he's the father I remember best, the one in whose shadow I have- for better or worse- become what I am.
~ Holly Black
If it's my day to die, then I will die... Death is quick and final. Survival is long and hard.
~ Linda Barnes
Sometimes solutions aren't so simple; sometimes goodbye's the only way.
~ Unknown
In the end, it doesn't even matter.
~ Unknown
At some point there was no almost.
~ Lionel Shriver
And I know that this will be my last sunset. this one, here, right now, on Christmas Eve, playing out in violent flames of red and gold across the horizon. And I know that these are my last moments. And that is fine. That is absolutely fine.
~ Lisa Jewell
No more Dane," he eventually said with unnerving finality. I tried to be funny. "I can't decide if that means you don't want me to see him again or if you're planning to kill him." "It means if the first thing happens, the second thing is likely to follow.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I'm not playing for lack of options. But this is such a fleeting thing. When I'm done, I'm never, ever going to be able to come back to it. I know Vancouver is my last go.
~ Angela Ruggiero
Mourir n'est pas facile
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Pamaž?le žengiau prie pabaigos, netur?damas nei kit? vil?i?, nei kitoki? troškim?,išskyrus tuos, kuriais teks užpildyti savo knygas, ?sitikin?s, kad paskutinis mano širdies pol?kis bus ?rašytas ? paskutinio mano rašt? tomo puslap? ir kad mir?iai atiteks tik lavonas.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Non... Les jeux sont faits. On ne reprend pas son coup
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Rather than see me or have me touch it again, it died.
~ Jeff Lindsay
I think I need to see a lawyer," I tell him. He shakes his head sadly. "I retire in a year and a half," he says. And with this apparent non sequitur our conversation is over and I am buttoned securely into my cell once more.
~ Jeff Lindsay