Last lines in books that you remember.

[rwsmith]

How could I forget this one?

Deeply, he bowed, touching the ground, before him who was sitting motionlessly, whose smile reminded him of everything he had ever loved in his life, what had ever been valuable and holy to him in his life.

Herman Hesse - Siddhartha

I'm SURE that there is more. I'll include them as they come to me.

 

[M1A]

So, my last lines were taken. "A Tale of Two Cities".
However, I have remembered for sixty years the prologue to "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer. Cadets from another class had to memorize it in the original Middle English and their constant recitation burned it in my memory.
"Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of March has perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour."
It continues for a bit. I did look it up for spelling

 

[Timothy2700]

He reached down to crank up his dad’s old runabout like a thousand times before after a long assignment. But this time his eyes caught a small spot of light headed up to meet him… then black.

Nice. So now I want to read the rest of that story….title, author?
Thanks

 

[TJm15.38]

"This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― Nevil Shute, On the Beach

 

[SMSgt]

"This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― Nevil Shute, On the Beach

Great movie!

 

[rwsmith]

Have a few more:


The Tao of the Wise person acts by not competing.

Lao Tzu – Tao Te Ching


“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."

J. D. Salinger – Catcher In The Rye



"The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off."

Joseph Heller – Catch 22



"He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning."

Harper Lee – To Kill A Mockingbird

 

[Retired W4]

I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.

How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, Lenny Bruce

Mike Durant. We will not leave without you.

In the Company of Heroes

 

[old bear]

The end!!!

 

[ladder13]

From the greatest of all time…………AMEN

 

[bigmtnman]

"He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided"

The Most Dangerous Game

 

[Marshwheeling]

Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha, ha.
-Charles Willeford, “ Kiss your *** goodbye.”

 

[Imissedagain]

$000.000

My bank book.

 

[fordson]

"This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― Nevil Shute, On the Beach

That quote is from T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Man”.

The last lines of Shute’s “On The Beach” reads:
She took the cork out of the bottle. It was ten past ten. She said earnestly “Dwight, if you’re on your way already, wait for me.”
Then she put the tablets in her mouth and swallowed them down with a mouthful of brandy, sitting behind the wheel of her big car.

It’s an interesting poem and a great book. The movie was pretty good as well.

 

[Tom S.]

That quote is from T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Man”.

The last lines of Shute’s “On The Beach” reads:
She took the cork out of the bottle. It was ten past ten. She said earnestly “Dwight, if you’re on your way already, wait for me.”
Then she put the tablets in her mouth and swallowed them down with a mouthful of brandy, sitting behind the wheel of her big car.

It’s an interesting poem and a great book. The movie was pretty good as well.

I thought the movie was very well done, and frightening as well. It's well worth viewing by anyone under 60 who wondered what life was like in the late 50's and into the 60's, living under the shadow of the threat of the mushroom clouds.