Quotes About Completion

I've known fantastic writers who never finished a project. And writers who launched incredible ideas, then never fully executed them.

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

love is a mission a man goes on every day. A mission a man never completes until death. In that way, true love is a suicide mission.

The best thing you can say about an ending is that it made you happy you read it, but sad that it's over. It really is that simple. 23.

Love is a beautiful tapestry woven by two people and the moment it is complete they keep going until they unpick every thread.

We all count the hours. We all look for completion, even if we fear it. We long to be consumed. I long to be consumed.

There is in our natures a calamitous hunger for consummation.

Who are you after you finish something this magnificent—in constructing it you have also journeyed through it, to the other side.

She'd have to get started if she was going to read them all.

He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last.

only when a man dies can his life acquire a beginning, middle, and an end: up until then we are constantly unfinished, even the midpoint cannot be located. So only the final word finds the middle word and this, in a way becomes a verse--one's death explains oneself.

Life is like being at the dentist. You always think that the worst is still to come, and yet it is over already.

Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.

Life is like being at dentist. You always think that the worst is yet to come, & yet it is over already.

Live, and prosper, for all your adventures are past. We are called onwards from destiny to destiny. For you, your rest is won.

If it were now to die, 'twere now to be most happy.

Did nature supplement what man advanced? Did she complete what he began? With equal complacence she saw his misery, condoned his meanness and acquiesced in his torture.

That dream, of sharing, completing, of finding in solitude on the beach an answer, was then but a reflection in a mirror, and the mirror itself was but the surface glassiness which forms in quiescence when the nobler powers sleep beneath? Impatient, despairing yet loth to go (for beauty offers her lures, has her consolations), to pace the beach was impossible; contemplation was unendurable; the mirror was broken.

when all this and much more than all this was complete and to his liking, Orlando walked through the house with his elk hounds following and felt content.

I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get rid of that book....

La muerte no era otra cosa que una reunión más completa de los infinitos fragmentos de la soledad.

Icing, meet cake.

I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.

The moment contained all her best hopes and desires. She needed and wanted very little: to be able to gaze upon his face every day for the rest of her life. The place did not matter, nor the conventions of church vows or family alliances or noble ties. He was her love, completely and utterly. As he sank down into her, Meghan gave a little sigh like a moan of surrender but it was not that. It was a sigh of peace, of completion, of a joining that made whole her world.