Finals Quotes - Page 23

• For every reader who dies today, a viewer is born, and we seem to be witnessing . . . the final tipping balance.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Balance, Tipping, Today

  Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.165, Macmillan

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• The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Falling In Love, Sight, Growth

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.3, Sarah Orne Jewett

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• Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong and the final decisions are made in silent rooms. Tell him to be different from other people if it comes natural and easy being different. Let him have lazy days seeking his deeper motives. Let him seek deep for where he is a born natural. Then he may understand Shakespeare and the Wright brothers, Pasteur, Pavlov, Michael Faraday and free imaginations Bringing changes into a world resenting change. He will be lonely enough to have time for the work he knows as his own.

  Carl Sandburg

  Lonely, Strong, Brother

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.449, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

  Walter Scott

  Sympathy, Death, Grief

  Sir Walter Scott (1833). “The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations”

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• Why can't we resist the urge to second-guess and evaluate each other?...Sometimes I wonder if the final judgment will be a breeze compared with what we've put each other through here on earth. p 225

  Sheri L. Dew

  Earth, Sometimes, Wonder

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• The conventional parabola--sentiment, the touch of the hand, the kiss, the passionate kiss, the feel of the body, the climax in the bed, then more bed, then less bed, then the boredom, the tears and the final bitterness--was to him shameful and hypocritical.

  Ian Fleming

  Kissing, Hands, Boredom

  Ian Fleming (1953). “Casino Royale”

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• The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.

  Wallace Stevens

  Believe, Fiction, Belief

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.244, Vintage

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• I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn’t a final destination. You don’t one day get there and get to stay.

  Deb Caletti

  One Day, Destination, Final Destination

  Deb Caletti (2009). “The Fortunes of Indigo Skye”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Death, Years, Aging

  Nicholas Sparks (2014). “The Notebook: Student edition”, p.145, Hachette UK

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• Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspirational, Compassion, Flare Up

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.

  Dallas Willard

  Children, Doe, Indicators

  Dallas Willard (2012). “Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God”, p.82, InterVarsity Press

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• Wherever your path takes you, may all your deathbed wishes come true, and may you celebrate each and every one of them many long years before your final breath.

  Gay Hendricks

  Years, Long, Wish

  Gay Hendricks (2010). “Five Wishes: How Answering One Simple Question Can Make Your Dreams Come True”, p.135, New World Library

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• Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Friendship, Philosophy

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 10, 2015

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• What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell me what the meaning of it is. I find it just so staggering--that you're supposed to explain the meaning of your book to some total stranger! If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.

  Margaret Drabble

  Book, Writing, Examination

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• Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends can never be properly tied, one is always producing new ones. Time, like the sea, unties all knots. Judgements on people are never final, they emerge from summings up which at once suggest the need of a reconsideration. Human arrangements are nothing but loose ends and hazy reckoning, whatever art may otherwise pretend in order to console us.

  Iris Murdoch

  Art, Opportunity, Order

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• I made strength from everything that had happened to me, so that in the end even the final tragedy could not defeat me. And that is what Ultima tried to teach me, that the tragic consequences of life can be overcome by the magical strength that resides in the human heart. --Antonio

  Rudolfo Anaya

  Heart, Tragedy, Overcoming

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• He gave the body a final kick and then turned to face me. “You and I need to talk, Kitten.” “Now?” I asked in disbelief, gesturing to the dead vampire near his feet. “It’s not like he’s going anywhere, so yeah. Now.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Feet, Vampire, Needs

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• All the drawing lacks is the final touch: To add eyes to the dragon

  Diane Duane

  Eye, Dragons, Drawing

  Diane Duane (2002). “The Wizard's Dilemma”, p.387, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You left me." Not realizing until I've said my final good-bye and closed the door behind me, that he's not referring to the past. He's prophesying our future.

  Alyson Noel

  Past, Doors, Bye

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• To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Heart, Men, Iron

  1849 'Marginalia', in the Southern Literary Messenger, Jun.

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• So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!

  Alexandre Dumas

  Humans, Human Wisdom, Final Words

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• The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about.

  Dean Koontz

  Achievement, Process

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.232, Bantam

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• Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.

  Suzanne Collins

  Humor, Dying, Defense

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.333, Scholastic Inc.

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• So if you think this is going to save you...If you think anything is going to save you...Please consider this your final warning.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Thinking, Warning, Please

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• But, drawn to her at that moment, he felt a quiet like the voice of the rain flow over him. He knew well enough that for her it was in fact no waste of effort, but somehow the final determination that it was had the effect of distilling and purifying the woman's existence.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Determination, Rain, Voice

  Yasunari Kawabata, Rudyard Kipling, Sinclair Lewis (1971). “Nobel Prize Library”

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