Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.

I shall be as willing as the next man to fall down in worship before the System, if only I can manage to set eyes on it. Hitherto I have had no success; and though...

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...

We are past the end of things now, but I don’t want to leave.

I didn’t mean I’d seen everything, John Grady said.I know you didn’t.I just meant I’d seen some things I’d as soon not of.I know it. There’s hard lessons in this world. What’s the hardest? I...

Unless death is made a lesson for the living, the life lived is wasted.Why should life come into existence only to be destroyed? One dies and another is born—for what? A few miserable hours of...

Leaving the familiar for unknown terrain is like a death – and feeling this level of finality should snap one back to life for life has greater meaning in the face of death.

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.

The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can’t see, whose beginning you’ve forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and...

Death. What a brief word for the extinguishing of life. To be no more. To have days cut off and at their end. To never again……….anything.

So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark.

It’s different when the person you love dies. There’s an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there’s the funeral, family gatherings, grieving, all of those necessary rituals. And they help,...

Knowledge is too final. Not knowing lets you dream a little.

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

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...