Finals Quotes - Page 32

• Grief causes you to leave yourself. You step outside your narrow little pelt. And you can’t feel grief unless you’ve had love before it - grief is the final outcome of love, because it’s love lost. […] It’s the cycle of love completed: to love, to lose, to feel grief, to leave, and then to love again. Grief is the awareness that you will have to be alone, and there is nothing beyond that because being alone is the ultimate final destiny of each individual living creature. That’s what death is, the great loneliness.

  Philip K. Dick

  Lost Love, Loneliness, Grief

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• The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

  Oscar Wilde

  Stars, Moon, Heaven

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• Whether it's good for anything or not, cool or totally uncool, in the final analysis what's most important is what you can't see but can feel in your heart.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Important, Analysis

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.172, Random House

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• Sorry, but I have plans elsewhere,” William said darkly. “I’m leaving tomorrow morning, and I’ll be gone for a few weeks.” “What plans?” “Doesn’t matter why I kept you in the dark. I’m going and that’s final.” “You can’t go without me,” Gilly said. “I can and I will.” “You promised to protect me always. How can you protect me if you’re gone?” “I didn’t lie to you. I will always protect you,” William told her gently. He stood, reached for her, but realized what he was doing and dropped his arms to his sides. “You have to trust me on this.

  Gena Showalter

  Morning, Sorry, Lying

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• We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is not our only motive; love or grief or despair or hatred is what drives us on. We'll spy relentlessly on the dead; we'll open their letters, we'll read their journals, we'll go through their trash, hoping for a hint, a final word, an explanation, from those who have deserted us--who've left us holding the bag, which is often a good deal emptier than we'd supposed.

  Margaret Atwood

  Grief, Flames, Hands

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• And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope?

  John Green

  Causes, Everlasting Life

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.158, Penguin

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• Why are we doing this?" Caine asked him. "You know damned well why we're doing this. Because it's a fight. It may be THE fight. I may be the final fight. And what else are we good at, you and me? What are we going to do if we ever get out there anyway?

  Michael Grant

  Fighting, May, Wells

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• The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.

  William Kent Krueger

  Heart, Air, Mind

  William Kent Krueger (2014). “Ordinary Grace: A Novel”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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• Harry constantly repeated Dumbledore's final words to himself. "I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me. ... Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it. "But what good were these words? Who exactly were they supposed to ask for help, when everyone was just as confused and scared as they were?

  J. K. Rowling

  Confused, School, Hogwarts

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• Not a single star will be left in the night. The night will not be left. I will die and, with me, the weight of the intolerable universe. I shall erase the pyramids, the medallions, the continents and faces. I shall erase the accumulated past. I shall make dust of history, dust of dust. Now I am looking on the final sunset. I am hearing the last bird. I bequeath nothingness to no one.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Stars, Sunset, Past

  Jorge Luis Borges, Alastair Reid (1977). “The Gold of the Tigers: Selected Later Poems : a Bilingual Edition”, Dutton Adult

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• Hope is that tiny light that the gods have given us so that we can find our way through our darkest hours. And while we might stub our toes and bruise our knees, if we keep moving forward, even when our progress is slow and painful, we will overcome and be made better by our journey. … No misery or bad situation is ever infinite or final until we make a conscious decision for it to be so.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Moving Forward, Journey, Light

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Inferno: Chronicles of Nick”, p.173, St. Martin's Griffin

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• But who can foresee such things? None of us can predict the final outcomes of our actions, and few of us even try; most of us just do what we do to prolong a moment's pleasure or to stop the pain. And even when we act for the noblest reasons, the last link of the chain all too often drips with someone's blood.

  Stephen King

  Pain, Blood, Trying

  Stephen King (2002). “Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales”, Scribner

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• I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with hate and cunning and the spirit of vengeance. I will make my final stand here, Benjamin Thomas Parish.

  Rick Yancey

  Hate, Grief, Self

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.128, Penguin

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• No misery or bad situation is ever infinite or final until we make a conscious decision for it to be so. ~ Inferno

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Decision, Misery, Infinite

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Inferno: Chronicles of Nick”, p.173, Macmillan

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• When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment, the flickering light of it, in a green field, his mouth on yours. He means the stretching of that moment. But forever isn't bright; it isn't like that. Forever is cold and hard and final.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Mean, Green Fields, Light

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.207, Macmillan

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• A real fighter never cries, never lets the weight of any blow bring him down. Except that final blow, the inevitable one, but even then they always go out like men.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Real, Blow, Men

  J. A. Redmerski, J. Lynn, Jay Crownover (2013). “The Edge of Never, Wait For You, Rule: Scorching Summer Reads 3 Books in 1”, p.72, HarperCollins UK

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• If one does not make human knowledge wholly dependent upon the original self-knowledge and consequent revelation of God to man, then man will have to seek knowledge within himself as the final reference point. Then he will have to seek an exhaustive understanding of reality. He will have to hold that if he cannot attain to such an exhaustive understanding of reality he has no true knowledge of anything at all. Either man must then know everything or he knows nothing. This is the dilemma that confronts every form of non-Christian epistemology

  Cornelius Van Til

  Christian, Reality, Men

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• I had no answer to those questions, only hope. With absolutely no one to turn to, no Mikey, no Axe, no Danny, I have to face the final battle by myself, maybe lonely, maybe desolate, maybe against formidable odds. But I was not giving up. I had only one Teammate. And He moved, as ever, in mysterious ways. But I was a Christian, and He had somehow saved me from a thousand AK-47 bullets on that day. No one had shot me, which was well nigh beyond all comprehension.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Christian, Lonely, Giving Up

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• When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Flying, Ruins

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• I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write of sin. You’re the book I love the best, your skin only holds my truth, you will be a palimpsest lines of age rewriting youth. You will not burn upon the pyre. Or be buried on the shelf. You’re my letter to desire: And you’ll never read yourself. I will trace each word and comma As the final dusk descends, You’re my tale of dreams and drama, Let us find out how it ends.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Drama, Book

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• The final reward of the dead - to die no more

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Rewards, Dies

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• I know this song!’ Rosie laughed. ‘If you didn’t, that’d be the final proof that you’re from Mars.

  Graeme Simsion

  Song, Mars, Proof

  Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Frank Zhang! I, Jason Grace, praetor of the Twelfth Legion Fulminata, give you my final order: I resign my post and give you emergency field promotion to praetor, with the full powers of that rank. Take command of this legion!

  Rick Riordan

  Order, Giving, Grace

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• Are you sure?" Aidan asked, "Gavriel's still a vampire." "He warned me about you and about them. He didn't have to. I'm not going to repay that by-" she hesitated, then frowned. "What did you call him?" "That's his name," Aidan sighed, "Gavriel. The other vampires, while they were tying me to the bed, they said his name." "Oh." With a final tug she pulled the blanked free and tossed it over to 'Gavriel' -Tana and Aidan-page 23-chapter 3

  Holly Black

  Names, Vampire, Pages

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• Ah." He set down his backpack and pulled out their notebook. "You're working on your final project?" "Indirectly," Cath said. "What does that mean?" "Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don't actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn't the object?" "No." He sat down. "Well, I'm writing everything that isn't my final project, so that when I actually sit down to write it, that's all that will be left in my mind.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Notebook, Mean, Writing

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.142, Pan Macmillan

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