Finality Quotes

Finality Quote of the day

Finality is not the language of politics.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

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.

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.

The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living.

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.

My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this.

Truly there is no such thing as finality.

What I believe is a process rather than a finality.

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

I don't look at failure as death, I don't look at failure as finality. I just look at it and pick myself up and say 'we shouldn't have done that' and move on.

Many billions of years will elapse before the smallest, youngest stars complete their nuclear burning and shrink into white dwarfs. But with slow, agonizing finality perpetual night will surely fall.

For the Fall of the year is more than three months bounded by an equinox and a solstice. It is a summing up without the finality of year's end.

It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.

Death in my mind isn't a finality. There's a continuum: It's like at night, you go to sleep and in the daytime you wake up, or whenever you wake up, and it's a new day.

Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.

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

Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.

The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling, settling dust of death and opens the way to new life.

The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not so fast, nor with such manic, unanswerable finality.

I love the finality of film. When you make a movie, you know the beginning, middle, and end.

The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.

For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.

I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.

the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion; and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.

And so in my mind's eye these coastal forms merge and blend in a shifting, kaleidoscopic pattern in which there is no finality, no ultimate and fixed reality - earth becoming fluid as the sea itself.

Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up the furniture to keep warm.

One day I will have to forgive life for ending, I tell myself. I will have to learn how to let life be life with its unbearable finality ... just be what it is.

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

more. To have days cut off and at their end. To never again..........anything.

Easter is the final solution to the finality of death.

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

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

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

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.