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Quotes About Unfinished

If anyone had unfinished business, he did. If anyone needed more time, he did. He was going to wander for years at the edge of my line of sight.
~ Joan Silber
So, what is my story? I don't know. It's long and twisted and not quite finished yet.
~ Caitlyn Paige
I intended to give you some advice, but now I remember how much is left from last year unused.
~ George Harris
Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece
~ Vladimir Nabokov
That smile tells me he's not done. That we're not done.
~ Rachel Caine
My only regret is to die four pages too soon.
~ Dennis Potter
There is no better place to keep a secret than in an unfinished novel.
~ Italo Calvino
A classic is a book that has never finished what it wants to say.
~ Italo Calvino
Não há melhor lugar para se guardar um segredo que num romance inacabado.
~ Italo Calvino
Undeveloped, the whole thing,tossed into a box before we really had a chance to know what we had, and that's why we broke up.
~ Daniel Handler
When parents don't take responsibility for their own unfinished business, they miss an opportunity not only to become better parents but also to continue their own development. People who remain in the dark about the origins of their behaviors and intense emotional responses are unaware of their unresolved issues and the parental ambivalence they create.
~ Unknown
Each time, Rita was shocked to find herself alone, but her history didn't surprise me. We marry our unfinished business.
~ Lori Gottlieb
Long dead and buried in another town, my mother hasn't finished with me yet.
~ Louise Penny
Everyone looks like they've just stepped out of a Dante Gabriel Rossetti painting that he never got around to finishing because even he knew it was too over the top. It
~ Joe Queenan
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
~ Unknown
I detested you, at the moment of my death... My soul cannot move beyond that... As long as you live, I cannot rest! -Kikyo to Kagome
~ Rumiko Takahashi
know what it is like to finish a book and find oneself wondering, a day or a week later, what happened to the butcher or who got the diamonds, or whether or not the dowager was ever reconciled with her niece. I
~ Diane Setterfield
I was someone who lived in anxiety. I felt anxiety was part of being conscious in the world; it was a prerequisite of a moral and ethical life. I don't mean the anxieties of Capital, I mean the anxieties of an unfinished world, the unfinished projects of the imagination, as Wilson Harris would put it.
~ Dionne Brand
My uncle told a great story with his life, but I think there was such a sadness at his funeral because his story wasn't finished. If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died. But my uncle died too soon.
~ Donald Miller
His inconsistency. His inability to finish anything. His sudden terrifying feelings that nothing he did mattered. His realizations that what went on in the outside world had more substance than anything in his life.
~ Lydia Davis
She was thinking how it was the unfinished business. This was why she could not sleep. She could not say the day was over. She had no sense that any day was ever over. Everything was still going on. The business not only not finished but maybe not done well enough.
~ Lydia Davis
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone.
~ Unknown
He is one of those whom God has not quite finished.
~ John Steinbeck
In the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable we eventually learn that here, in this life, all symphonies remain unfinished.
~ Karl Rahner