Finals Quotes - Page 27

• In the final seconds before sleep, I wish I could go back and undo everything, give those little girls another chance.

  Emily Giffin

  Girl, Sleep, Giving

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.211, Macmillan

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• Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Men, Logic, Socialism

  "Life Is Worth Living". TV Series (1952-1957); transcript was later published in Fulton J. Sheen "Life is Worth Living: First and Second Series" (Second Series, p. 122), 1953.

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• In university courses we do exercises. Term papers, quizzes, final examinations are not meant for publication. We move through a course on Dostoevsky or Poe as we move through a mildly good cocktail party, picking up the good bits of food or conversation, bearing with the rest, going home when it comes to seem the reasonable thing to do. Art, at those moments when it feels most like art -- when we feel most alive, most alert, most triumphant -- is less like a cocktail party than a tank full of sharks.

  John Gardner

  Art, Moving, Home

  John Gardner (2010). “The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers”, p.35, Vintage

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• Everybody is waiting for the end to come, but what if it already passed us by? What if the final joke of Judgment Day was that it had already come and gone and we were none the wiser? Apocalypse arrives quietly; the chosen are herded off to heaven, and the rest of us, the ones who failed the test, just keep on going, oblivious. Dead already, wandering around long after the gods have stopped keeping score, still optimistic about the future.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Optimistic, Long, Waiting

  "Memento Mori". Short story by Jonathan Nolan, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Seven half-bloods shall answer the call To storm or fire the world must fall An oath to keep with a final breath and foes bear arms to the doors of death

  Rick Riordan

  Fall, Fire, Doors

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.263, Penguin UK

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• There are many things in the deep waters; and seas and lands may change. And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world. We should seek a final end of this menace, even if we do not hope to make one.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Deep Water, Sea

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She moved nearer, leaned her shoulder against me — and we were one, and something flowed from her into me, and I knew: this is how it must be. I knew it with every nerve, and every hair, every heartbeat, so sweet it verged on pain. And what joy to submit to this 'must'. A piece of iron must feel such joy as it submits to the precise, inevitable law that draws it to a magnet. Or a stone, thrown up, hesitating a moment, then plunging headlong back to earth. Or a man, after the final agony, taking a last deep breath — and dying.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Sweet, Pain, Men

  Yevgeny Zamyatin “We”, Two-Gunner Pulp Press

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• Edward and I had not had a last grand scene of farewell, nor did I plan one. To speak the word was to make it final. It would be the same as typing the words The End on the last page of a manuscript. So we did not say our goodbyes, and we stayed very close to each other, always touching. Whatever end found us, it would not find us separated.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Goodbye, Farewell, Touching

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.391, Hachette UK

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• I yearn for the darkness. I pray for death. Real death. If I thought that in death I would meet the people I've known in life I don't know what I'd do. That would be the ultimate horror. The ultimate despair. If I had to meet my mother again and start all of that all over, only this time without the prospect of death to look forward to? Well. That would be the final nightmare. Kafka on wheels.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Mother, Real, People

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• 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

  Faces, Stories, Defeat

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• She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing sunset colors of her beauty offer her one last, urgent choice between maternal and feminine love. At such a moment a life that seemed to have chosen its course long ago is questioned once again, for the last time the magic compass needle of the will hovers between final resignation and the hope of erotic experience.

  Stefan Zweig

  Love, Husband, Regret

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• The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not wisdom, is why we devote such a huge proportion of the ingenuity and income of our societies to finding faster ways of doing things - as if the final aim of mankind was to grow closer not to a perfect humanity, but to a perfect lightning-flash.

  John Fowles

  Time, Perfect, Humanity

  JOHN FOWLES (1969). “THE FRENCH LIEUTENTANT'S WOMAN”

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• Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit.

  Don DeLillo

  Giving, Borders, Needs

  Don DeLillo (1999). “White Noise”, p.186, Penguin

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• For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.

  Audre Lorde

  Luxury, Silence, Waiting

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.44, Crossing Press

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• The final mystery is oneself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspiring, Learning, Growth

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• To anyone else, Xavier's use of the word angel would have sounded like nothing more than a lovesick teenager professing his admiration. Only the two of us knew differently and now we both shared a secret- that brought us closer than ever. It was as if we had just sealed the bond between us, closed the gap, and made it final.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Teenager, Angel, Two

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.205, Feiwel & Friends

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• Are you happy in your misery? Resting peaceful in desolation? It’s the final tie that binds us The sole source of my consolation" “blue

  Gayle Forman

  Blue, Ties, Peaceful

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.99, Penguin

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• Then I think of the dark, and the lights, and the roaring, and Juliet, and before I can think of anything else, I fight the final few steps to the door and step out into the cold, where the rain is still coming down like shards of moonlight, or like steel.

  Lauren Oliver

  Rain, Dark, Fighting

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• Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final.

  Tom Stoppard

  Believe, Valentine, Struggle

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Arcadia”, p.96, Faber & Faber

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• Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my life. He said, "The one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything." Never to be afraid of anything, even death, which, after all, is but that final breakthrough into the open, waiting, outstretched arms of Abba.

  Brennan Manning

  Brother, Jesus, Fear

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.160, Multnomah

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• We’re not completely happy here because we’re not supposed to be! Earth is not our final home; we were created for something much better.

  Rick Warren

  Home, Earth, Supposed To Be

  Rick Warren (2015). “The Purpose Driven Life Devotional for Kids”, p.59, Harper Collins

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• Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.

  George R. R. Martin

  Death, Thrones, Life Is

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.101, Bantam

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• The tennis challenger starts strong but soon loses confidence in his playing. The champion racks up the games. But in the final set, when the challenger has nothing left to lose, he becomes relaxed again, insouciant, daring. Suddenly he's playing like the devil and the champion must work hard to get those last points.

  Yann Martel

  Strong, Hard Work, Games

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.149, Vintage Canada

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• He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath: “Only God knows how much I loved you

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Grief, Grateful, Eye

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• Donovan Caine wanted me, but he wasn't strong enough to accept me. Not my past, not my strength, not the woman I was. Bitter disappointment filled me, replacing my rage, but I forced myself to ask the final question I wanted an answer to.

  Jennifer Estep

  Strong, Disappointment, Past

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