1,646 Quotes About Lasts

Play the last measure very softly.

For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions when events begin suddenly to take on a significance previously unsuspected, so that, before we really know where we are, life seems to have begun in earnest at last, and we ourselves, scarcely aware that any change has taken place, are careering uncontrollably down the slippery avenues of eternity.

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.

My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it.

During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.