#finality

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it. ↗

— James Stephens

#finality #lumps #nothing #perfect #perfection

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#definition #existence #finality #life #death

After a great blow, or crisis, after the first shock and then after the nerves have stopped screaming and twitching, you settle down to the new condition of things and feel that all possibility of change has been used up. You adjust yourself, and are sure that the new equilibrium is for eternity. . . But if anything is certain it is that no story is ever over, for the story which we think is over is only a chapter in a story which will not be over, and it isn't the game that is over, it is just an inning, and that game has a lot more than nine innings. When the game stops it will be called on account of darkness. But it is a long day. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#crisis #finality #fluidity #life-events #resolution

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment. ↗

— William J. Brennan

#effectively #enormity #finality #less #more

We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. ↗

— Tombstone epitaph of two amateur astronomers

#death #finality #hope #love #stars

My coffee gets increasingly better the more I drink and the closer I come to the bottom of the cup, where all the sugar is. I wonder if life is the same way as we approach the end. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#death #drink #end #finality #life

As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain. ↗

— Cleveland Abbe

#also #centuries #definite #domain #end

I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#finality #love #soul #dreams

Life's final lesson,the only truthful one buried beneath a layered skein of delusions. Sooner or later,she now understood,we are all naught but food.Wolves or worms,the end abrupt or lingering,it matter not in the least. ↗

— Steven Erikson

#food

I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful. ↗

— George Hickenlooper

#because #comedies #failure #fascinated #finality