Last Act Quotes

18 quotes by 18 authors

But seek till ye find, and, whatever ye find for the present, let your last act be to lay and leave yourselves on the righteousness… — Donald Cargill
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt) — Sylvia Plath
My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes; every day Speaks a… — Francis Quarles
. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last act!) he wished… — George Santayana
You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last… — Ayn Rand
The last act crowns the play. — John Ruskin
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell
Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent… — David Knopfler
With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned… — Ralph Adams Cram
What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and… — Agnes Denes
It [will-making] is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition ... This last act of our lives seldom belies… — William Hazlitt
The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and… — Blaise Pascal
Death is just the last scene of the last act. — Joyce Carol Oates
Touch me again, and it will be your last act in life - Blue Eyes. — Lilith Saintcrow
The brilliant escape, the funny line to cap it, despite the lack of timing. And the girl was still dead. The last act had not… — Paul Cornell
Jane Fonda, who divided her life into three acts, decided after her sixtieth birthday that she was now facing the final act, and came to… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Reading is the last act of secular prayer. — Richard Powers

Who Wrote These Last Act Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 18 Last Act Quotes as follows: