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Quotes About Finality

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The meaning of life is that it stops.
~ Franz Kafka
Some last words should never be said.
~ Mary E. Pearson
It had been odd to envy their grief, but I had. I envied the explosion and finality of it-- their sobs and tears... Her passing came slowly, over months and years, in the dull bits, pieces, and mundane hours that I worked to stay alive... The memories of her became disconnected blurred images, warm hands cupping my cheeks, a tuneless hum as she worked, words that floated in the air, her finger pressed to my lips.
~ Mary E. Pearson
We're all going to die.
~ Mary E. Pearson
There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then take the other one.
~ Mary Hoffman
Here is the End for me, if I want it — here is the Ceasing, when I want it.
~ Mary MacLane
Knowing that death is hovering in the wings is a great leveller. We regret so many things - and yet what does it matter in the end? We can't change anything
~ Unknown
I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my cheek on the pillow and sigh for a long time. It seemed there would never be another book. It was all over, the book was dead. It lay in its bent cover by my hand. What was the use? Why bother dragging the weight of my small body down to dinner? Why move? Why breathe? The book had left me, and there was no reason to go on.
~ Marya Hornbacher
In every death, a busy world comes to an end.
~ Mason Cooley
And death is the opposite of possibility.
~ Matt Haig
It was, she decided, a very good time to die.
~ Matt Haig
They die, and so they have impatience.
~ Matt Haig
Åžok edici gerçek o anda, nihayet, zihninde netleÅŸti; Nora ölmek istemiyordu.
~ Matt Haig
Creep into thy narrow bed,Creep, and let no more be said!
~ Matthew Arnold
I call disaster what does not have the last limit: that which drags the last in the disaster.
~ Maurice Blanchot
Nature gives us a dispersed finality. It is a demonology, full of supranatural forces, not one of which is supernatural. On this terrain of knowledge, one must be polytheist.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Death, as he had said, cancelled all engagements.
~ Max Beerbohm
Dan — Whistling Dan," he said, "I'm seeing you a long, long ways off. Partner, I'm done for." The whole body of Dan stiffened. "Done? Tex, you can't be! Five minutes ago you sat at that there table, smilin' an' talkin'!" "It doesn't take five minutes. Half a second can take a man all the way to hell!
~ Max Brand
There is no god but death.
~ Maxwell Anderson
In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.
~ Maya Lin
Hiljadu ne?ijih sre?nih ?asaka bi?e kao ovaj, ali ovaj nikada više. Hiljadu tu?ih ljubavi bi?e kao ova, ali ova nikada više. Nikada: jedina kona?nost.
~ Meša Selimovi?
This is where we die, I thought, stripped of any fleck of the festive. Dying is bureaucratic and fluorescent.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
Neka no? mora biti posljednja,i nešto mora biti što boli,uvijek.
~ Unknown