Quotes about final
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“Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.”

Julian Barnes book Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

Star, Appearance

“When is the night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply when you realize that you have to?”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Sleep, Night

“As you see the opening get closer, you just can't get fast enough. And finally, just when you think you'll never get there, you see the opening right in front of you.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Thinking

“The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

Books, Universe, Time, Reading

“I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they’re cramming for their final exam.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

People, Thinking, Reading, Funny

“…I finally understood what true love really meant. …that love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

John Tyree, Epilogue, p. 275
Source: 2000s, Dear John (2006)

Love, Pain, Personality, Happiness

“Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.”

Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer

Communication, Effort

“Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain.”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

Mountain

“I keep thinking Naruto… That one of these days your going to finally grow up!”

Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto

Thinking

“Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.”

Edward Said (1935–2003) Professor of English and literature

History

“No," I said finally.
"Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?"
"1940" I said promptly, which is the problem with Quickness in Answering.”

Connie Willis book To Say Nothing of the Dog

Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog

Problem, Time

“What the hell is that look for? You finally grow a conscious? (Syn)
No, but we can’t go around assassinating respected officials. (Nykyrian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of the Night

Hell

“I forced myself to picture the last moments. The penultimate breath. A final sigh. And yet. It was always followed by another.”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“The thought of Christmas overwhelms him. He no longer looks forward to the holiday; he wants only to be on the other side of the season. His impatience makes him feel that he is incontrovertibly, finally, an adult.”

Jhumpa Lahiri (1967) Short story writer, novelist

Feeling, Holiday, Christmas, Season

“She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.”

Carson McCullers book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Beauty, Time

“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 book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Way, Girl, Painting

“But now we've finally taken full possession of what is rightfully ours, because everyone must feel their own pain--and as awful as that is, it's also wonderful.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

Source: Bruiser

Pain, Feeling

“I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

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“Spook: No, I'm not troubled. In fact, I actually think everything is going to be all right. Finally.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Hero of Ages

Thinking

“Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.”

David Henry Hwang M. Butterfly

Source: M. Butterfly

Reality, Learning

“In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Variant: Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Source: Tender Is the Night

Failure

“Anybody who has the courage to raise his eyes and look sanely at the awful human condition… must realize finally that tiny periods of temporary release from intolerable suffering is the most that any individual has the right to expect.”

Flann O'Brien (1911–1966) Irish writer

Courage, Suffering

“You’ll pardon me,” he finally said, “if the suggestion that the minuscule black turnip you call a heart is suddenly overflowing with generosity toward me leaves me wanting to arm myself and put my back against a wall.”

Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora

Heart

“For years we have been taught not to like things. Finally somebody said it was OK to like things. This was a great relief. It was getting hard to go around not liking everything.”

David Byrne (1952) Scottish alternative rock musician and promoter of world music

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

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

“I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.”

Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist

“They took a baseball bat
and whacked open his head.
Mummy Boy fell to the ground;
he finally was dead.
Inside of his head
were no candy or prizes,
just a few stray beetles
of various sizes.”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker

Source: The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

Boy, Dead

“I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.”

Amy Tan (1952) American novelist

Love, Star

“The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

“When you know you love someone, when you know it's finally the right time, you don't just wait around for the right words, you just say the sentences even if they're all mixed up and imperfect.”

Patti Callahan Henry American writer

Source: Coming Up for Air

Love, Time, Waiting

“No rest
without love,
No sleep
without dreams
of love -
be mad or chill
obsessed with angels
or machines
the final wish
is love.”

Allen Ginsberg book Howl and Other Poems

Source: Howl and Other Poems

Love, Dreams, Angels, Sleep

“Home was not the place where you were born but the place you created yourself, where you did not need to explain, where you finally became what you were.”

Dermot Bolger (1959) Irish writer

Source: The Journey Home

Home

“Logic presumes a separation of subject from object; therefore logic is not final wisdom. This is Zen. This is my motorcycle maintenance.”

Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Wisdom

“Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.”

Garth Nix book Abhorsen

Variant: For everyone and everything, there is a time to die.
Source: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Abhorsen (2003), p. 343.
Source: Sabriel
Context: For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the Ninth Gate.

Time