Quotes About Culmination

Achievement brings it own anticlimax.

The secretary and I were like Hamlet and Laertes in the final scene, where, because of harm done by one ancestor to another, we were bound to duel to the death. Also because the play must end somewhere.

La vie de l'homme, avec tous ses projets, s'élève comme une petite tour dont la mort est le couronnement.

Election Day 2010 saw the culmination of years of aggravation and resentment toward a federal government that became disconnected and disdainful of the values and priorities of Americans.

contemplate the fertility I hope for in my fifties and beyond—the regeneration of my creativity, the refinement of my spirituality, a new relationship with my body, the rediscovery of my daughter, indeed an inner culmination I cannot fully articulate to myself—I realize it cannot be plotted, orchestrated, controlled, and forced to bloom.

Death is just the last scene of the last act.

Making the Hall of Fame has long been considered the top individual honor that one can achieve in any sport, but for me, I feel it is a culmination of all the input and effort afforded me from so many other people over the years that put me in this position today.

Galaxie 500 broke up because it was time. We broke up as a result of internal contradictions.

The last act is bloody, no matter how happy the rest of the play.

We had reached the moment of final nightness.

No one dies halfway through the last act. – Heinrich Ibsen

They said later that Mrs. Merriweather was putting her all into the grand finale, that she had crooned, Po-ork, with a confidence born of pine trees and butterbeans entering on cue. She waited a few seconds, then called, Po-ork? When nothing materialized, she yelled, Pork!

the cook's art is wasted if it is not consumed. Eating is not destruction; it is culmination.

It is finished.

They end when the career ends

When love's the culmination of everything you feel, then it's the only thing that's precious, it's the only thing that's real.

The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play

This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but with a whimper.

All things found their ends.

My fairy tale has ended.

Ça exploserait derrière lui. C'était fini.

The day had finally arrived, a day I'd been awaiting for ten years. A glorious day, a momentous day, a day of import and distinction. It was time to buy a hot dog.

The only point in creating something is to watch it die. Like a story that must come to a climax, what I have done will not be fulfilled until the end has arrived.

I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.