Quotes about last
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“You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Feeling, Silence

“Last night I walked clear down to Times Square & just as I arrived I suddenly realized I was a ghost - it was my ghost walking on the sidewalk.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

Time, Night

“I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes – toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings.”

John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

Success

“The last good time always comes, and when you see the darkness creeping toward you, you hold on to what was bright and good. You hold on for dear life.”

Stephen King book Joyland

Source: Joyland

Life, Time

“She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on old boards she held up her hands-as if, in the terror of the upcoming skirmish, she had at last understood that she was beautiful. In her own way.”

Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Beauty, Way

“Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years.”

Stephen King The Dark Tower

Source: The Dark Tower

“Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.”

Robert Jordan The Dragon Reborn

Source: The Dragon Reborn

Travel, Fish

“Last night you said you wanted to know what to expect so you could better select your attire. I told you we were going to visit a vampire in a Goth-den tonight. Why, then, Ms. Lane, do you look like a perky rainbow?”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

Night

“There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own heart asks.”

Tsunetomo Yamamoto book Hagakure

Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

Heart

“Obstreperous, ‘huh,” said Tad. “I see you’ve been using that Big Word of the Day calendar I got you last Christmas.”

“That is irrefragable,” I told him solemnly.”

Patricia Briggs book Frost Burned

Source: Frost Burned

Christmas

“Johnson! Have I committed any illegal actions?'
Johnson checked his watch. 'Not within the last three minutes, sir.”

Genevieve Cogman (1972) novelist and game designer

Source: The Invisible Library

“It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters.”

Sarah Dessen book The Moon and More

Source: The Moon and More

Truth

“How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

As quoted in Love, Sex, Death & The Meaning of Life : The Films of Woody Allen (2001) by Foster Hirsch, p. 50.

God

“Emotionlessly she kissed me in the vineyard and walked off down the row. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked up at each other for the last time.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Love, Kiss, Time

“When was the last time you did something for the first time?”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

Time

“If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Memory

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Source: Self-Reliance

“Before she became the Girl from Nowhere-the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years-she was just a little girl in Iowa, named Amy. Amy Harper Bellafonte.”

Justin Cronin The Passage

Source: The Passage Trilogy, The Passage (2010)

Girl

“The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?”

John Fowles book The Magus

Source: The Magus

Death, Night

“He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that sometimes he can convince you of it.”

Holly Black book White Cat

Source: White Cat

Lie, Time, Forgetting

“For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. The last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.”

John Steinbeck book Cannery Row

Source: Cannery Row

World

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”

Lance Armstrong book Every Second Counts

Source: Every Second Counts

Pain, Motivational, Success, Hurtful

“Our moments are music, and sometimes – just sometimes – we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If we didn’t have music, I don’t think we could ever be truly happy, and if we didn’t have special moments, we would never find music.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: How They Met, and Other Stories

Happiness, Music, Thinking

“Magnus, remember what happened the last time you tried to tango. Your shoe flew off and nearly killed someone."

"It was a metaphor. He's a Shadowhunter, he's a Lightwood, and he's into blonds. He's a dating hazard.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Course of True Love [and First Dates]

Shoe, Time

“O little one,
My little one,
Come with me,
Your life is done.

Forget the future,
Forget the past.
Life is over:
Breathe your last.”

Clive Barker book Abarat

Source: Abarat

Life, Past, Future, Forgetting

“It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.”

James Boswell book The Life of Samuel Johnson

October 26, 1769, p. 174
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson

Time

“Just last year i wanted to kill him, but now it is my duty to save him.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“The battle, if you could call it that, lasted no more than a few seconds.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Icebound Land

“But, like love, fire didn't last.”

Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles

Source: The Bane Chronicles

Love

“I’m really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Happiness, Feeling

“Death is just the last scene of the last act.”

Joyce Carol Oates Blonde

Source: Blonde

Death

“Here we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the moment, where we always intended to be.”

Julia Glass book Three Junes

Source: Three Junes

“Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

Life, Suffering

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence, so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste. And so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, brother to the other animals, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it. … We need wilderness preserved — as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds — because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed. The reminder and the reassurance that it is still there is good for our spiritual health even if we never once in ten years set foot in it.”

Wallace Stegner (1909–1993) American historian, writer, and environmentalist

Wilderness Letter http://wilderness.org/bios/former-council-members/wallace-stegner (1960) Source: The Sound of Mountain Water

People, Health, Books, World

“Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Life

“Do you know what happened to the last person who took that tone with me? (Xypher)
Let me guess…Disembowelment. Probably painful. Definitely slow. (Simone)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dream Chaser

Pain, Personality

“Remembering from last year how Haymitch's gifts are often timed to send a message, I make a note to myself. Be friends with Finnick. You'll get food.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Food, Time

“I need some kind of… like… last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!”

Bryan Lee O'Malley (1979) Artist

Source: Scott Pilgrim, Volume 3: Scott Pilgrim & The Infinite Sadness

“No Last Meal for you guys, either. Guess we have that in common.” Someone bust out the pom-poms and cheer for the team. Yay.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Reborn

Guy

“Touch me again, and it will be your last act in life - Blue Eyes.”

Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer

Source: Jealousy

Life

“The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

Life, Childhood

“In the instant their lips first met, there was a flicker of something almost electrical that made him believe the feeling would last forever.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Guardian

Source: The Guardian

Feeling

“Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there’s nothing to make it last.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Happiness, Passion

“I wonder how she'll make up her mind."
"Oh, that I do know." I can just catch Gale's last words through the layer of fur. "Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Thinking

“Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“… to be injured on this tundra would lead to a quick and painful death—or at the very least abject humiliation before the popping flashes of the tourist season's tail end, which was slightly less painful than a painful death, but lasted longer.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Atlantis Complex

Death, Pain, Season

“This wife you have, Bird said at last, deeply contemplative, did you pay a great deal for her?

She cost me almost everything I had, he said, with a wry tone that made the others laugh. But worth it.”

Diana Gabaldon book A Breath of Snow and Ashes

Source: A Breath of Snow and Ashes

Bird

“The last time I'd seen the Minotaur, he'd been wearing nothing but his tighty whities. I don't know why. Maybe he'd been shaken out of bed to chase me.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

Time

“I teleported home last night with Ron and Sid and Meg
Ron stole Meggy's heart away and I got Sidney's leg.”

Douglas Adams book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Home, Heart, Night

“Do you think we’ll be waiting long?” Valkyrie asked,
keeping her voice low.
“The last time we were in this building, we accused the
Grand Mage of being a traitor,” Skulduggery said. “Yes, I think
we’ll be waiting long.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: The Faceless Ones

Thinking, Time, Waiting

“Life is so damned hard, so damned hard… It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

Life, People, Hurt

“She is more beautiful than I have words for. And last night, I was blessed beyond measure to serve her.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

Beauty, Night

“You think I'm gonna feel better eatin' a carrot? Get a grip. There's two idiots out there trying to kill me, and you think I'm gonna waste my last breath on a vegetable? (Lula)”

Janet Evanovich book Finger Lickin' Fifteen

Source: Finger Lickin' Fifteen

Feeling, Thinking

“‎"Does all the beauty of the world stop when you die?"

"No," said the Old Oak; "it will last much longer - longer than I can even think of."

"Well, then," said the little May-fly, "we have the same time to live; only we reckon differently.”

Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet

Source: The Complete Fairy Tales

World, Beauty, Thinking, Time

“Bright was the light of my last martini on my moral horizon”

Norman Mailer book Harlot's Ghost

Source: Harlot's Ghost

Light

“I don't have anything else to add. I just wanted to make sure I had the last word. I think I've earned that.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Thinking

“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

"The Precarious Vogue of Ingmar Bergman" in Esquire (April 1960); republished as "The Northern Protestant" in Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961) and in The Price of the Ticket (1985)

Art

“I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag -- it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell into hers. I said, 'Thanks for the card.' Her smile put the sunflower to shame. She walked off.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

Smile, Painting

“I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory”

Sam Savage book Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife

Source: Firmin

Thinking, Memory

“Through many waters borne, brother, I am come to thy sad grave, that I may give these last gifts to the dead. Forever and ever, brother, hail. Forever and ever, farewell.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Princess

Sadness, Water, Dead

“All the kids from daycare are in dreamland.
The froggie has made his last leap.
Hell no you can't go to the bathroom.
You know where you can go?
The f**k to sleep.”

Adam Mansbach book Go the Fuck to Sleep

Source: Go the Fuck to Sleep

Hell, Sleep

“Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long. Something would turn up to scare it away.”

Joseph Conrad book Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

World, Feeling, Time

“Are you sure, Gray?'
He lifted his eyes. 'No… I'm not. I'm not sure of a damn thing.' He slipped his hands free of the monsignor's and peeled the battery off the phone, cutting the last ring in half. 'But that doesn't mean I won't act.”

James Rollins book The Judas Strain

Source: The Judas Strain

“That the last two letters in her name were the first two in his, a silly thing he never mentioned to her but caused him to believe that they were bound together.”

Jhumpa Lahiri book Unaccustomed Earth

Source: Unaccustomed Earth

“Nothing lasts forever, not even the best machines. And everything can be reused.
- Hephaestus”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

“I’m not a warrior or a goddess,” I said at last.

Adrian leaned closer. “As far as I’m concerned, you’re both.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Cute

“I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.”

Walker Percy book The Moviegoer

Source: The Moviegoer (1961)

People, Business

“There are much better ways to handle the delicate male ego.
With a two-by-four?
Only as a last resort and never in public.”

Lora Leigh (1965) American writer

Source: Forbidden Pleasure

Way

“Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took, unwillingly, that one last step to oblivion. Some of us took very little sugar.”

Shirley Jackson book We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Death, Fate

“My ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don’t, and that’s what makes them more precious.”

Shannon Hale (1974) American fantasy novelist

Source: Palace of Stone

People

“Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken....”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Quoted, This Side of Paradise (1920)

Love, God, War, Fear

“I am that last, that
final thing, the body
in a white sheet listening”

Li-Young Lee (1957) American writer

“He’s a restless soul, always looking for another chance to drive,’ Nico said. ‘The last few years, he’s been my driver whenever I need one.’
‘You have a zombie chauffeur,’ Leila said.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Soul, Chance

“Beautiful thoughts, and beautiful women never last.”

Charles Bukowski book Notes of a Dirty Old Man

Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man

Women, Beauty

“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”

Nick Hornby book A Long Way Down

"The Relation of Dress to Art," The Pall Mall Gazette http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14062/14062-h/14062-h.htm (February 28, 1885) reprinted in Aristotle at Afternoon Tea:The Rare Oscar Wilde (1991) Source: A Long Way Down

“Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.”

Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer

Source: Before Midnight: A Retelling of Cinderella

“He swept Raisa up into his arms and kissed her like it was his first, last, and only”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Crimson Crown

Kiss

“Dave couldn't remember the last time a grownup had apologized to him.”

Andrew Clements book No Talking

Source: No Talking

Time

“Has a world composed of "us" and "not us" been invaded at last?”

Bisco Hatori (1975) Japanese manga artist

Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 2

World

“If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?”

Garrison Keillor book Lake Wobegon Days

Source: Lake Wobegon Days

Box

“You're not the last of the old Jedi, Luke, you're the first of the new”

Timothy Zahn Heir to the Empire

Source: Heir to the Empire

“I lie there and wait, and remind myself over and over that it doesn’t last forever. That there will be another day and after that, yet another day. One of those days, I’ll get up and eat breakfast and feel okay.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Lie, Feeling, Waiting

“Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.”

Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) English philosopher, born 1588

Last words

“Your hand fits mine like the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

“The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard work.”

Rachel Gibson (1961) American writer

Books

“in this short life
that only lasts ah hour
how much-how little-is
within our power.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Life

“History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.”

Robin Hobb (1952) American fiction writer (pseudonym)

History, Past, Future, Dead

“A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.”

James Joyce book Finnegans Wake

Source: Finnegans Wake

Love, Way, Past

“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

World, Dreams, Thinking

“Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?”

Jennifer Donnelly (1963) American writer

“I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the wind; watching patterns, the sweep of it all, and letting it take me.
The sea.”

Gary Paulsen (1939) American writer and musher

Source: Caught by the Sea

Study, Light, Water, Sea

“She whispered, 'C'etait la Verite?' Was that Verity? Or perhaps she just meant, Was that the truth? Was it true? Did any of it really happen? Were the last three hours real? 'Yes,' I whispered back. 'Oui. C'etait la verite.”

Elizabeth Wein book Code Name Verity

Source: Code Name Verity

Truth

“Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.”

Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) American author and polymath

Cosmic Trigger II : Down to Earth
Source: Cosmic Trigger 2: Down to Earth

History, Nature

“My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends?”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Love, Time, Heart, Hurt

“America is the greatest, freest, and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.”

Dinesh D'Souza (1961) Indian-American political commentator, filmmaker, author

Source: Books, What's So Great About America (2003), Ch. 6: America the Beautiful

World, Hope, Country

“They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

Parting

“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.”

Winston S. Churchill book The Second World War

Speech in the House of Commons, June 18, 1940 "War Situation" http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1940/jun/18/war-situation#column_60. The Second World War (1939–1945) Source: Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches Context: Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us now. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.

Men

“Annabeth pressed her lips to Percy’s ear. “I love you.”
She wasn’t sure he could hear her—but if they died, she wanted those to be her last words.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Love

“We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Love, Time

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