Quotes About Finality

Murder is the one crime that can't be put right. It upsets the balance. The dead can't be restored like stolen property; death doesn't heal like physical or emotional scars left by assault or rape. It's final. The end...

That's what it means to die, to not be able to stop looking at whatever's in front of you. Some darn thing placed directly there, with nothing you can do about it...

I'm dead; lay the heavy bread on me.

Shame to die with one bullet left, though.

Your death taps you on the shoulder, or takes your hand, and says, 'Come along o' me, it's time.

The end is so immense, it is its own poetry. It requires little rhetoric. Just state it plainly.

Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged—where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only.

It was the end of all understanding.

The White Throne Judgment will be nothing like our modern court cases. At the White Throne, there will be a Judge but no jury, a prosecution but no defense, a sentence but no appeal.

Dead is dead. For whatever reason. And in choice between life and death, there is no other choice.

I tell him goodbye instead - a kind of goodbye that's never, ever final.

You expect death to bring some new form of punctuation, but there it is: one small gasp. Period.

When it's my turn, I'll open my mouth, unable to speak, and feel a little tap on my wrist. Time to stand up, my watch will whisper. Then, before killing myself, I'll say one last time, "I am standing up.

Yes, it is time I was dead; there is nothing left me to do but to die. I am no good in the world; I am no longer a father!

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

She rolled over, giving a cry that froze my heart; and I saw her dying, still looking at me without anger.

He was dead. Even with practice he would never be any deader.

However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return.

Well, that obviously wasn't good enough. Not by a long shot. Saying period at the end of something doesn't make it incontrovertible.

Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of the rat race is not yet final.

that was when I realized that I was done. I was finished breaking the law.

No colour comes after black.

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

There's something oh so terrifying about The End.