Finality Quotations

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

I wanted to give a sense of closure without an absolute finality to it. So it isn't like everyone dies or we blow up the lodge, or it was all a dream.

The trial did lay bare evidence of crimes he was alleged to have committed. I don't feel the four years were a waste in this sense. Something of a record has been set out, though short of the finality of a verdict.

We just didn't score. They had 12 points at halftime and yet they were within a point. And the longer it remained a close game, the more pressure I think we felt was because of the finality of this single elimination.

that's not a decision that has been conveyed to us with any finality by the chairman ... I'm confident there will be additional very important witnesses.

But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those things which lie under the direct scrutiny of the senses, close to the nose. It is this difficulty that sets a value upon all works of art and makes them a necessity. The senses witnessing what is immediately before them in detail see a finality which they cling to in despair, not knowing which way to turn. Thus this so-called natural or scientific array becomes fixed, the walking devil of modern life.

Terrorism gravely threatens international peace and security, and as a solution, the power and apparent finality of force are seductive.

I see all these old people who don't have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep. I will never say 'retired' because that's such a finality that I don't want to be part of my life. I'll work until they throw me in a box.

Jon went at it like it was just another tournament and that's the key. It's tough to adjust to the finality of this tournament.

There is no tragedy more woeful than the victory of hate, nor any attainment so hopelessly barren as the sterility of that achievement; for hate is finality, and finality is the greatest evil which can happen in a world of movement.