1,646 Quotes About Lasts

Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last

The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty.

Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime.

No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.

Love with complications. Scenery was the last thing on my mind.

I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.

The creative habit is like a drug.

If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.

Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths.