Last Quotes

“When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.”
― Native American Saying

“There's never the right last moment. Even if you get to say good-bye, even if you get to say "I love you", even if you jump off a plane and get a tattoo and hug everyone you've ever met right before you drift off with a smile, it is never the right last moment. There is always more to say, somewhere to go, something to remember. Another discussion, another fight. There is always supposed to be another day.”
― Pamela Ribon, You Take It From Here

“...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things

“At the edge you will always remember me, at the edge you will last be remembered, where sanity and insanity come together, for the time, then separates. Like leaves on October trees, that color the world, but for a moment, then leave. At the edge, where life losses its edginess, and thoughts we will become one, someday. At the edge the sun drops, the ring falls, and senses of raindrops climb upwards to the gray sky.”
― Anthony Liccione

“There's a clock on the wall. Press your hand against the face and turn it very slightly to the. Left. There'll be a click to tell you it's done."
"Sounds easy enough."
"Yes it does," said Sanguine. "Kiss for good luck?"
"Maybe later," said Gracious.
"How about a handshake?" Asked Donegan.”
― Derek Landy, Last Stand of Dead Men

“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things

“Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things

“The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s dinner but the whole world is not big enough for it. Man spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing. From the lamb he tears its guts and makes his harp resound; from the wolf his most deadly tooth to polish his pretty works of art; from the elephant his tusks to make a toy for his child.(...)And who will exterminate him who exterminates all others?”
― paul hoffman, The Last Four Things

“Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’
‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (...)
‘And?’
‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason, how mean his facilities, how ugly in form and movement, in action how like a devil, in apprehension how like a cow. The beauty of the world? The paragon of animals? To me the quintessence of dust.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things

“Many are called, few are chosen.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things

“Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that’s been in front of you all your life.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things

“Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things

“I saw many people who begun their marathon races lately, but they eventually came up as top winners. I believe that your "lateness" does not account for your "lastness". It's not too late for you to make a start... Begin it now! No further delays!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Yesterday was the last day on the calender of the past. Tomorrow will be the first day on the calender of the future. Today is both the first and the last day of the present. Use it well.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“We all were courageous in the starting moments, few of us stayed courageous till the final moments and the world called them successful men.”
― Amit Kalantri

“It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things

“Dying is the last thing I will ever do.”
― John Barrymore

“I tap my pen against the Edith Piaf record, thinking of how to express my future sentiments when my journey comes to an end. Either in the arms of the girl I love, or buried in a box of memories, this note will be the last.

'Ma femme,
Je ne regrette rien, because I found everything.

I love you.”
― Ashley Pullo, Intermission

“Mr Spacey has decreed that we will be going last.

ooow! oh F**k.

What's so bad about going last?

Means you can't enjoy the show because you'll be Sh!tting yourself.”
― 24 hour musical gala cast

“Katika nyuma geuka ya gwaride, wa kwanza anakuwa wa mwisho, wa mwisho anakuwa wa kwanza. Geuka, ukifika mwisho wa njia. Huo ndiyo mwanzo wa njia nyingine.”
― Enock Maregesi