Quotes About Final Hours

#1. Why waste your final hours racing about your cage denying you're a squirrel?

Ray Bradbury

#2. She was a lover and a lewd cohabitator, a liar and a cherished friend, an aunt and a kindly grandmother, a champion of the fallen, and a late-in-coming fighter for reason over fear. Even in those final hours, quite and rocking, arriving and departing, she knew who she was.

Laura Moriarty

#3. These final hours until Aelyx's departure were no more or less important than the millions of other hours they would share over a lifetime.

Melissa Landers

#4. Matron Malice, her belly swollen in the final hours of pregnancy.

R.A. Salvatore

#5. It's weird, all you think about when you're young is gaining your independence, but when those final hours come, people want to go home.

Kathryn Craft

#6. But now, in the final hours, even hope had vanished. Yet he could smile. At a point without hope he had found contentment. He knew he had tried and there was nothing to be sorry for. And this was complete victory, because it was a victory over himself.

Richard Matheson

#7. We will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.

Robin Gibb

#8. So we face our final hours ... and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.

Tad Williams

#9. Their kisses had gone on and on - cheeks, neck, mouth, and tongue. Seconds ... minutes ... hours. Then they'd start all over again. Adults were too fixed on the final goal to take that kind of time. Only teenagers afraid of the next step exchanged kisses that lasted forever.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#10. Never was there a creature more appropriately placed to be the poster girl for euthanasia.

Dawn French

#11. Things were good. He had things to look forward to. That, for now, was to be his definition of living - to always have a thing to look forward to.

Kevin Sampson

#12. Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Alain Badiou

#13. Today is a new day.You will get out of it just what you put into it.

Mary Pickford

#14. Not every story in history has a beginning, a middle and an end, but the wreck of the Titanic does. It begins when they leave, in the middle it hits an iceberg, and in the final two hours, the ship sinks.

Maury Yeston

#15. What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.

Jung Chang

#16. Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.
Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final defence of the dying. (252)

Suzanne Collins

#17. There must have been a real mess on the tracks,' Lorna said, 'They shut down the F train line for a whole two hours for you. Two hours! And in rush hour!'
My final achievement. Man, I hoped Mom was getting that put on my gravestone. Here lies Charlotte Feldman. She pissed off commuters. A lot.

Suzy Cox

#18. I can't imagine a decent maze that would be caught dead without a minotaur. It's not done! You don't go out of your house without any clothes on, and a minotaur doesn't go into the world without a labyrinth to keep him warm.

Catherynne M Valente

#19. Labour's support in Scotland depends on their ability to be electable. If they are divided and unelectable, what's the point?

Nicola Sturgeon

#20. Maybe you don't need to understand her; maybe you just need to want to.

Jeannine Allison

#21. Abandoned homes become magnets for vandalism and crime. They drag down the property values of neighboring homes.

Eric Schneiderman

#22. A man can be an artist ... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.

Christopher Walken

#23. Be an advocate of love and kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#24. I'm a massive fan of the 'Bourne' franchise, and I think Damon's brilliant in it, and I love the films. I'm really into it.

Max Beesley

#25. Even now - in the final hour of my life - I'm falling in love again.

Steven Morrissey

#26. When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and that's fine. But all that initial creation of the early drafts, I'd just as soon write it on the road in any extreme place. That's sort of ideal.

Pam Houston

#27. Because I am kind of distracted, I don't tend to sit at my desk 9 to 5. It can be two hours a day, or, when I'm in the final editing stages, it can be 14 hours a day.

Rick Riordan

#28. I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

Gabriel Byrne

#29. I have to get off the Internet. It's so unhealthy for me. I do see what they post about me, and it's not always positive. They're mean - though there are some lovely ones. I'm so tempted to post something, but I haven't done it yet.

Linda Evangelista

#30. It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience those four and a half hours after you write the final word.

Zadie Smith

#31. I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.

Winston Churchill

#32. Studies have shown that patients on hospice who become dehydrated in their final weeks, days, or hours, die much more comfortably than patients who are kept artificially hydrated with intravenous fluids or supplemental tube feedings.

Heidi Telpner

#33. This is the most complicated potion I've ever seen,

J.K. Rowling

#34. Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'

Jack White

#35. You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.

Lauryn Hill

#36. There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.

William Faulkner