Last Words Quotes - Page 13

• Life is like a book son. And every book has an end. No matter how much you like that book you will get to the last page and it will end. No book is complete without its end. And once you get there, only when you read the last words, will you see how good the book is.

  Fábio Moon

  Life, Book, Son

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• My mother's last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mother, Funny Relationship, Iron

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.16, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Let it not be death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky end in the folding of the wings over the nest. Let the last touch of your hands be gentle like the flower of the night. Stand still, O Beautiful End, for a moment, and say your last words in silence. I bow to you and hold up my lamp to light you on your way.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Beautiful, Song, Pain

  Rabindranath Tagore (2004). “Tagore”, p.39, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" In reality, "How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" were probably not Simon Bolivar's last words (although he did, historically, say them). His last words may have been "Jose! Bring the luggage. They do not want us here." The significant source for "How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" is also Alaska's source, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The General in his Labyrinth.

  John Green

  Reality, Alaska, Labyrinth

  John Green (2005). “Looking for Alaska: A Novel”, Dutton Childrens Books

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• I don't mind my wife having to last word. In fact I'm delighted when she reaches it.

  Walter Matthau

  Funny Relationship, Wife, Mind

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• Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go.

  Joan Didion

  Let It Go, Lasts, Just Let It Go

  Joan Didion (2007). “The Year of Magical Thinking”, p.141, Vintage

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• She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking and the looming shadow of the last word, the one we refused to say.

  Kami Garcia

  Heart, Shadow, Trying

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• Go away. I'm all right. [last words]

  H. G. Wells

  Going Away, Lasts

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• Hey," he said. "It's someday." He said the last word in Greek.

  Ann Brashares

  Greek, Hey, Lasts

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• This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They're not last words but passwords, and as soon as they're spoken you can go.

  Daniel Wallace

  Keys, Afterlife, Lasts

  Daniel Wallace (1999). “Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions”, Penguin Group USA

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• And I too wanted to be. That is all I wanted; and this is the last word. At the bottom of all these attempts which seemed without bounds, I find the same desire again: to drive existence out of me, to rid the passing moments of their fat, to twist them, dry them, purify myself, harden myself, to give back at last the sharp, precise sound of a saxophone note. That could even make an apologue: there was a poor man who got in the wrong world.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Giving, Desire

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• No further issues with Corinne Bishop or her kin in Detroit?” “Hunter didn’t seem to be concerned,” Gideon replied. “Said he had the situation under control.” Lucan grunted, wry despite the weight of the discussion previously under way. “Where’ve I heard that line before? Famous last words from more than one of us over the course of the past year and a half.

  Tina St. John

  Past, Years, Issues

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• I have spent a lot of time searching through the Bible for loopholes.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Cute, Witty

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• You might make that a double.

  Neville Heath

  Might

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• It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.

  John Green

  People, Chocolate, Dying

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.18, Penguin

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• Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.

  John Green

  Lasts, Remember, Harder

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.138, Penguin

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• Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

  Victor Hugo

  Science, Lasts, Firsts

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• I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.

  John Green

  Lasts, Knows

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.107, Penguin

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• Worship the spirit of criticism. If reduced to itself it is not an awakener of ideas or a stimulant to great things, but, without it, everything is fallible; it always has the last word.

  Louis Pasteur

  Greatness, Ideas, Criticism

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• Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betrayed, silence is but emptiness. But we, the faithful, when we have spoken our last word, will hear the voice of silence.

  Isak Dinesen

  Voice, Silence, Faithful

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Last Tales”, p.104, Vintage

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• It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Powerful, Winning, Too Late

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• We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Music, People, Tragedy

  "35 Who Made a Difference: Wynton Marsalis". www.smithsonianmag.com. November 01, 2005.

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• Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, Life, Lasts

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.433, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Funny, Witty, Powerful

  Attributed in "Men of Mathematics" by E. T. Bell, 1937.

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• In the Old Language, she hissed, “If any harm shall befall him, I will come after you, and find you where you sleep. I do not care where you lay your head or who with, my vengeance shall rain upon you until you drown.” That last word was drawn out, until its syllable was lost in more growling. Dead silence. Until Doc Jane said dryly, “Annnnd this is why they say the female of the species is more dangerous than the male.

  J.R. Ward

  Rain, Sleep, Silence

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