Quotes About Epilogue
Over the ensuing decades and centuries, to be sure, the Bill of Rights has ascended to an elevated region in the American imagination. But in its own time, and in Madison's mind, it was only an essential epilogue that concluded a brilliant campaign to adjust the meaning of the American Revolution to a national scale.
~ Joseph J. Ellis
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Marriages are like certain books, a story where you turn the last page and you think it's over and then there's an epilogue, and after that you're inclined to go on wondering about the characters or imagining that their lives continue without you, dear reader. Until you forget most of that book, you're stuck puzzling over what happened to them after you closed it.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
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I always knew that adulthood didn't count; following puberty, all existence is but epilogue.
~ Amelie Nothomb
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Dreams are but prologue to days, epilogue to other days, written by our faltering minds.
~ Yiyun Li
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Thus the body opens with a vision of the heavenly Bridegroom, the Son of Man, and it closes with a vision of the heavenly bride, the new Jerusalem. Toward the end of the body are the contrasting visions of the judgment of the harlot Babylon (17:1-19:111) and the joy of the bride Jerusalem (21:9-22:9). Thus 22:6-9 is the climax of the body and the opening of the epilogue-a literary interweaving of themes characteristic of Revelation elsewhere.
~ Dennis E. Johnson
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Note also in the epilogue that I want to show that Stahr left certain harm behind him just as he left good behind him.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The story ended a long time ago
~ E. Lockhart
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Acta est fabula [The play is over].
~ Anonymous: Latin
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I write where I can see things happen, and then things get glued together. I do have the final scene, but that really is an epilogue. It's not part of the plot.
~ Diana Gabaldon
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Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before I see first chapters, too. I usually begin with endings, with a sense of aftermath, of dust settling, of epilogue.
~ John Irving
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A brief short story may require only a few paragraphs after the climax. On the other hand, in his massive novel 'The World According to Garp,' John Irving's denouement consisted of 10 separate sections, each devoted to an individual character's fate and each almost a story in itself.
~ Nancy Kress
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And she did. But that, dear reader, is another story . . .
~ Julia Quinn
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So, at the last, a story.
~ Justin Cronin
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This is how stories end, with all these leftover characters, nothing left for them to do.
~ Stephen Graham Jones
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I've had an epiphany and decided to completely dedicate my existence to a full-court press for the truth. All else is now irrelevant. Everything in my life up to this point has been bullshit, and everything afterward will just be epilogue." "What's 'epilogue'?" "Bullshit that comes later.
~ Tim Dorsey
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ANYONE WHO HAS SKIPPED TO THIS EPILOGUE BEFORE READING THE REST OF THE STORY IS A BIG CHEAT AND SHOULD GO RIGHT BACK TO CHAPTER 1 OR I WILL GET REALLY QUITE UPSET.
~ Cressida Cowell
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I don't want a happily ever after, Callum. I need an ending. No spin-offs or sequels. Just a standalone. And maybe someday, I'll get to hear your epilogue.
~ Len Webster
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We all hate those stories that end with 'And that's the story.'
~ Matt Besser
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If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue; yet to good wine they do use good bushes, and good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues.
~ William Shakespeare
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Muriel and Zachary's Maine coon cat was named 'Epilogue' for the fact that he concludes the lives of so many mice.
~ Unknown
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Hold, are you mad? you damn'd confounded Dog, I am to rise, and speak the Epilogue.
~ John Dryden
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The way you remember or dream about your loved ones - the ones who are gone - you can't stop their endings from jumping ahead of the rest of their stories. You don't get to choose the chronology of what you dream, or the order of events in which you remember someone. In your mind - in your dreams, in your memories - sometimes the story begins with the epilogue.
~ John Irving
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Um epílogo, disfarçado de resumo do passado, é realmente uma forma de nos alertar sobre o futuro.
~ John Irving
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HERE is the epilogue; there always is one. In a world where love and sorrow float, there are many epilogues—and some of them go on and on. In a world where doom always muscles in, some of the epilogues are short.
~ John Irving
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