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Quotes About Finality

The job of the second component of your one-liner is to close the story loop, not open more.
~ Donald Miller
The thing about death is it reminds you the story we are telling has finality
~ Donald Miller
Hic scientia finit: Knowledge Stops Here.
~ Donna Leon
No second chances.
~ Donna Tartt
And if it doesn't go like that? – Then all your problems will be over and you won't have a thing to worry.
~ Jack Higgins
It all ends in tears anyway.
~ Jack Kerouac
After the first death there is no other.' Do
~ Unknown
If this moment was a sentence, I'd be the period.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
If this moment was a sentence, I'd be the period.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
Oh, l'indignité qu'il y a dans la mort ; heureusement que les morts semblent incapables de s'en apercevoir.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
Death is the only reality, for it is the only certainty, inevitable to all things.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
Yes. Andrew. Ralph, I have to tell you about Jay." Hannah and Mary looked at each other. With everything that Andrew said, from then on, they realized in a sense which they had failed to before, that it had really happened and that it was final.
~ James Agee
Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.
~ Luke Davies
She is bending over her child. She can't leave her. The child is laid out in state on a table. She wants to take one more photograph of the child, probably the last. In life, the child would never sit still for a photograph. She says to herself, "I'm going to get the camera," as if saying to the child, "Don't move.
~ Lydia Davis
A morte combina muito com latim, não tem coisa que combine tanto com latim como a morte.
~ Unknown
Pay attention to fate, Mrs. Osgood. It will always have the last word." I
~ Lynn Cullen
Despite my lovely diction I am going to die.
~ Lynn Emanuel
Death is the most certain truth in life !
~ Unknown
It is done. I will think of them no more. I cast them out and I am finished.
~ Madeline Miller
An answer is always a form of death.
~ John Fowles
I like it," Massey said, "but it would be nice to wrap this up. Go to seven, Layton, but that's all.
~ John Grisham
Live while you live, then die and be done with.
~ John Gunther
Death, it seems, Garp wrote, does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.
~ John Irving
Once a Garp, then an Arp, now only an Ar; she knew he was dying. He had just one vowel and one consonant left.
~ John Irving