Top 94 Quotes About Finality
#1. The old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion; and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.
Ellen Glasgow
#2. The idea that an afterlife had been invented to reassure people who couldn't face the finality of death was no more plausible than the idea that the finality of death had been invented to reassure people who couldn't face the nightmare of endless experience.
Edward St. Aubyn
#3. You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.
Carlos Ghosn
#4. My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this.
Dalai Lama
#5. I see all these old people who don't have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep. I will never say 'retired' because that's such a finality that I don't want to be part of my life. I'll work until they throw me in a box.
Mario Andretti
#6. For the Fall of the year is more than three months bounded by an equinox and a solstice. It is a summing up without the finality of year's end.
Hal Borland
#7. The power of mankind has always been in overlooking the finality of things and holding onto optimism even when doing so seems foolish.
Chris Dietzel
#8. Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.
William J. Brennan Jr.
#9. Death during adolescence feels unfair. We're young. We're invincible. Death is supposed to come with old age. When death breaks into our lives and steals our innocence, its finality leaves us unnaturally older. There are too many elderly young people.
Sara Shandler
#10. Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.
Daphne Du Maurier
#11. As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.
Cleveland Abbe
#12. I don't look at failure as death, I don't look at failure as finality. I just look at it and pick myself up and say 'we shouldn't have done that' and move on.
Robert Herjavec
#13. Terrorism gravely threatens international peace and security, and as a solution, the power and apparent finality of force are seductive.
Charles Kennedy
#14. No more Dane," he eventually said with unnerving finality.
I tried to be funny. "I can't decide if that means you don't want me to see him again or if you're planning to kill him."
"It means if the first thing happens, the second thing is likely to follow.
Lisa Kleypas
#15. Many billions of years will elapse before the smallest, youngest stars complete their nuclear burning and shrink into white dwarfs. But with slow, agonizing finality perpetual night will surely fall.
Paul Davies
#16. I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.
George W. Bush
#17. There's no fear in me. Fear, I guess, is rooted entirely in anticipation. Worrying that things won't turn out the way you've planned, that something will hurt; dreading the sorrow to come - all that goes away when you simply accept finality. It
Pittacus Lore
#18. So if I was to choose? Then I choose complicated," I said, with a nod of finality. I met his eyes again in a silent challenge.
"I choose you.
C.J. Duggan
#19. What is protecting me is that it is not a finality being an actress. I really think we tend to idealize this job a lot. When you're an actress and you're really famous, it means people believe you are on top of the world - and I think that's not true.
Charlotte Le Bon
#20. That's not hard work. It's just manual labour," Nagasawa said with finality. "The "hard work' I'm talking about is more self-directed and purposeful.
Haruki Murakami
#21. I knew a girl, once, immortal like me-"
"And she was with someone mortal?" said Alec. "What happened?"
"He died," Magnus said. There was a finality to the way he said it that spoke of a deeper grief than words could paint.
Cassandra Clare
#22. I love the finality of film. When you make a movie, you know the beginning, middle, and end.
Elizabeth Banks
#23. She was right. There is no finality to a funeral. Linden is gone and I saw him go, but there's still the sense that he's somewhere. Everything in me is telling me to go outside and find him, bring him back.
Lauren DeStefano
#24. And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.
Miguel De Unamuno
#25. Leaving the familiar for unknown terrain is like a death - and feeling this level of finality should snap one back to life for life has greater meaning in the face of death.
Donna Lynn Hope
#26. The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.
D.H. Lawrence
#27. Nature gives us a dispersed finality. It is a demonology, full of supranatural forces, not one of which is supernatural. On this terrain of knowledge, one must be polytheist.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#28. The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not so fast, nor with such manic, unanswerable finality.
Sylvia Plath
#29. For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
D.H. Lawrence
#30. The finality of her leaving allowed me to reclaim the places that had once been ours as mine, to say good-bye to my childhood parks and hiking trails rather than grasping for lost moments with a lost girl who refused to be found.
Robyn Schneider
#31. Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.
Dan Brown
#32. VLADIMIR: Moron!
ESTRAGON: Vermin!
VLADIMIR: Abortion!
ESTRAGON: Morpion!
VLADIMIR: Sewer-rat!
ESTRAGON: Curate!
VLADIMIR: Cretin!
ESTRAGON: (with finality). Crritic!
VLADIMIR: Oh!
He wilts, vanquished, and turns away.
Samuel Beckett
#34. Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.
William Ernest Hocking
#35. The bristling eyebrows shot up in mock surprise. Mesmerized, the boy watched them disappear under the hanging thatch of white hair. There, almost coyly, they remained just out of sight for a moment, before suddenly descending with a terrible finality and weight.
Jonathan Stroud
#36. Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up the furniture to keep warm.
Aldo Leopold
#37. 'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#38. There is no moment in which we say good-bye, there is no finality as he slips into peacefulness, he simply leaves us, and though I seek courage when he passes I am weakened by tears, but I must hide them for he leaves us a lie to conceal, a lie he sent to save us.
Lisa O'Donnell
#39. I have always loved Naoko, and I still loved her. But there is a decisive finality to what exists between Midori and me.
Haruki Murakami
#41. Finality of it all has me in a fragile state, but I know the suffering won't last forever. It can't. Pain always fades. Love fades.
Kelly Stevenson
#42. REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.
Ambrose Bierce
#43. The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.
Byron White
#44. Truly there is no such thing as finality.
Bram Stoker
#45. Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.
Eric Temple Bell
#46. And so in my mind's eye these coastal forms merge and blend in a shifting, kaleidoscopic pattern in which there is no finality, no ultimate and fixed reality - earth becoming fluid as the sea itself.
Rachel Carson
#47. And it occurred to him at last, with the finality of knowledge, that he had never known another human being with any intimacy or trust or with the human warmth of commitment.
John Edward Williams
#48. To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.
David Bentley Hart
#49. ...how in the end it's impossible to understand the finality of certain things, certain words, certain moments.
Lauren Oliver
#50. Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it, said the Philosopher.
James Stephens
#51. If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
George Bernard Shaw
#52. The self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.
Alfred North Whitehead
#53. Death in my mind isn't a finality. There's a continuum: It's like at night, you go to sleep and in the daytime you wake up, or whenever you wake up, and it's a new day.
David Lynch
#54. I could see Grant thinking about this, trying to grasp the chasm between the finality in my voice and his vision of our future, and bridging the divide with a combination of hope and lies.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#55. I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.
George Hickenlooper
#56. Thus when an interpretation of the world, an ideology, for example, claims to explain everything, one thing remains inexplicable, namely, the interpretive system itself. And with that, every claim to completeness and finality fails.
Paul Watzlawick
#57. One day i will have to forgive life for ending. I tell myself I will have to learn how to let life be life with its unbearable finality ... just be what ti is.
Sue Monk Kidd
#58. There's a finality to his words.
I feel a tear drip out because I know what this is.
It's a goodbye. And I don't understand any of it.
His voice drops. 'Don't cry.
Laura Thalassa
#59. The last thing he felt was Bethany being pulled from his limp arms. A finality of black crashed over him in waves he couldn't surface from, welcoming him into the nothingness that dug in deep, refusing to ever let him go.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#60. A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.
Warren E. Burger
#62. Each is deceived by the sense of finality peculiar to the stage of development at which he stands.
C. G. Jung
#63. Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.
Adyashanti
#64. Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount.
Andrew Hudgins
#65. If he had uttered the word "come" she would have followed him to the bitter ends of the earth; if he had said, "There is no hope," she would have known the finality of despair.
Ford Madox Ford
#66. It didn't matter how old you got, the finality of death never changed, and neither did the ideals of loyalty and duty and honor, things this punk had never understood.
Martha Reed
#67. 'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.
Emma Goldman
#68. The man turned away from Bobby, and the finality with which he did it made me glance at Bobby to see if he had disappeared as a result.
James Dickey
#69. ... is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines, goulags, parataxes, non-senses, or paradoxes, and who turns this into the glory of his novelty, into his promise of change?
Jean-Francois Lyotard
#70. Yet now, having held in grief and resentment, and evaded thinking too much about the episode that changed my life with the finality of an axe, here I am exalted by having made use of it, by having spilled my guts in public. We are strange creatures, and writers are stranger creatures than most.
Wallace Stegner
#71. Good," said Moobin. "Any questions?"
"Yes," said Tiger. "Why do inflammable and flammable mean the same thing?"
"Sorry, I should rephrase that: Any questions relating to the job at hand?"
There weren't.
"Well," said Moobin with finality, "there it is, then. Rest well.
Jasper Fforde
#72. It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
Gaston Bachelard
#73. That day, engrossed together in the fate of the child, he met her mind to mind and fell in love with her, with every grain of his spirit and cell of his body; with the essential finality of death.
Dorothy Dunnett
#74. We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that's impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past.
Kristin Armstrong
#75. You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#76. And Id be struck a new by the finality of Ruth's absence.
Nicholas Sparks
#77. The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
Miguel De Unamuno
#78. Even post true death memories carried on the waves of universal energy will defy the faux perception of finality.
Truth Devour
#79. There is no tragedy more woeful than the victory of hate, nor any attainment so hopelessly barren as the sterility of that achievement; for hate is finality, and finality is the greatest evil which can happen in a world of movement.
James Stephens
#80. I can't,' I say.
Her mind closes like a shutter, with finality.
I wish, at that moment, that I had said something else.
Tade Thompson
#81. The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling
settling dust of death and opens the way to new life.
Billy Graham
#82. I know one thing about men," Bunny says with finality, leaving the room to check on A. "They never die when you want them to.
Suzanne Finnamore
#83. My heart would bear the marks from those words, the echo of finality in them, forever.
Cambria Hebert
#84. Impossible to say why childhood joy ends with such finality in so many things.
Dave Franklin
#85. It's quite a thing, to watch a person slip from the potential of life into the finality of death. It's another thing entirely to be the one who pushed. And for all Mercurio's teachings, she was still a sixteen-year-old girl who'd just committed her first act of murder. Her
Jay Kristoff
#86. Cold, still and merciless
Death comes visiting
With absolute finality
(Page 24)
Neena Verma
#87. I ask you again / You who watch / How can there ever be any ending but this? First silence / Then darkness.
Ben Power
#88. To only see 'death' in death is to somehow assume that death itself is a barrier so abrupt that God Himself is halted by it. To see 'life' in death is to understand that death is a sprawling horizon to a new beginning that God created long before death ever thought to show up.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#89. Knowledge is too final. Not knowing lets you dream a little.
Shaun Hick
#90. I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#91. Death. What a brief word for the extinguishing of life. To be no more. To have days cut off and at their end. To never again ... anything.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#92. The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable.
Joyce Carol Oates
#93. We are past the end of things now, but I don't want to leave.
Richard Ford
#94. Life's final lesson,the only truthful one buried beneath a layered skein of delusions.
Sooner or later,she now understood,we are all naught but food.Wolves or worms,the end abrupt or lingering,it matter not in the least.
Steven Erikson
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