He watched it scurry away, over his hand. "She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life. The Dark Knight, directed by Christopher Nolan, is perhaps the best Batman story ever committed to film. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston (1937), The fact that there is no demand for incisive and full-dress stories around Negroes above the servant class is indicative of something of vast importance to this nation, Hurston wrote in 1950. Toy Story 3 ends on a note that is both beautiful and sob-inducing. ", "He didn't think about it, he went straight to a seat facing forwards, so that he could see where he was going. Mitchell's famous last lines are at once heartbreaking and hopeful. ", "I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath, and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth. Hooper plays along with the joke, and the audience gets a laugh that breaks the tension before the credits roll. These famous lines appear in the fourth act of Henry V, one of Shakespeare's most commonly read history plays. ", "And then we continued blissfully into this small but perfect piece of our forever. The line also offers up a little hope for Rick, who just sent the love of his life away. . Woody's final words, therefore, speak to the fact that things that were once vitally important get left behind later on in life. Helen came and embraced me. can use to call home. The book ends with an epilogue that takes place at an academic conference in the year 2195. His final advice, not to tell anybody anything, could have run anywhere in the novel, but it sounds especially poignant at the end of his journey. I am haunted by humans. The Top 10 Best Plays of All Time Hamlet 1 1600-1601 William Shakespeare The Crucible 2 1953 Arthur Miller Waiting for Godot 3 1948-1949 Samuel Beckett Antigone 4 441 BC Sophocles Long Day's Journey into Night 5 1941-1942 Eugene O'Neill The Cherry Orchard 6 1904 Anton Chekhov Importance of Being Earnest 7 1895 Oscar Wilde A Street Car Named Desire We follow them across hundreds of thousands of words, but the final line can make or break a book. ", "His body stirs beneath the sheets. That line has several layers, but, most prominently, it acknowledges that their relationship has changed. Most last minute revelation for a previously utterly stubborn, unchanging character, finally accepting the facts of the universe in the face of his execution: As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the benign indifference of the world. Isnt it pretty to think so?, 2. A Good Man Is Hard To Find, Flannery OConnor (From The Complete Stories ). In response to that challenge, 18-year-old Mary Shelley conceived of the worlds most famous monster. It's dusty and desolate, and there's not much to do. We'll take any optimism we can get from curmudgeonly Franzen, regardless of whether or not it's meant in earnest (and in this case, it seems to be). But Jake isnt having it anymore. Kong takes one of the planes down, but he ultimately loses his balance after being shot, leading him to fall to his death. Sometimes, famous last lines can be more famous than the work they come from. ", "'Rest assured, our father, rest assured. Rick wants to help Ilsa and her husband escape to America. The Awakening,by Kate Chopin (1899). Hamlet ponders life, death, and the merits . ", "Up out of the lampshade, startled by the overhead light, flew a large nocturnal butterfly that began circling the room. An entire novel can be ruined by a disappointing ending, but by the same token, an entire novel can be made by a wonderful one. But which Shakespearean drama opens with the line, "I wonder how the king escaped our hands?" Take our quiz and see how well you know your Shakespeare. Amen. Now, fortunately, the tumultuous story of Janie, a black woman in Florida, is firmly rooted in the canon of American literature, and every year new readers come and see., Where the Wild Things Are, ", "The eyes and faces all turned themselves towards me, and guiding myself by them, as by a magical thread, I stepped into the room. A fitting conclusion to a book about globalization, and its power to rapidly change the world. Moments. For a time, Hill enjoys the flash, the cash, and the fear-driven respect that comes from being a mobster. They win, much to the judge's dismay. Hamlet contemplating suicide in his famous soliloquy. It's why Batman, Spider-Man, and so many others wear masks. What was the last line? In the end, though, he puts her on a plane to safety. The above is only a portion (we wouldn't be able to fit all of it in this article), but we couldn't NOT include one of the longest last sentences in literature. Dont ever tell anybody anything. Here are a few examples. In order to avoid being found, they dress up as women and invent new personas for themselves: Josephine and Daphne. His testimony, sealed with that line from King Lear, is enough to convert anyone to the power of great fiction. At the end of Henrik Ibsens play Hedda Gabler (1891), a trapped and passionate woman shoots herself in the head, and her old friend exclaims, Good God! ", The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945, Wladyslaw Szpilman, "This is not a full circle. The Concord Public Library in Massachusetts banned it soon after it was published. It touches on the passing of youth and of more innocent times in life, but it also offers hope by pointing out that sharing toys helps keep the magic of play alive. Ominous and syntactically exciting, this final line brings Conrad's dark novel full circle. You can feel the rawness as soon as it starts, as a. said, watching her hand. The father of the four March sisters is just a minor character in Louisa May Alcotts beloved Little Women (1868), but Geraldine Brooks put him at the center of her historical novel March, which won a Pulitzer Prize. Go on my son! Click through for 20 of our favorite endings from our bookshelf of classic and contemporary greats, and let us know your own picks for best last lines in the comments. Hemingways vaguely autobiographical story about a group of dissipated friends in Europe after World War I has aged well. Here are 21 of our favorite last lines in literature: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." From The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ", "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved. In 1816, Lord Byron suggested to friends vacationing with him in Switzerland that they each write a ghost story. LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT by Eugene O'Neill [1956]. How brilliant to end the novel with the grieving creature drifting away into the vast darkness and whiteness at the end of the world. "From The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. ", "How wonderful the flavor, the aroma of her kitchen, her stories as she prepared the meal, her Christmas Rolls! Everything about The Matrix is designed to make the viewer's head spin. The movie used broad humor to touch on these subjects, making for an incredibly daring comedy for the time. I justgave me a turn." Ellisons masterpiece, which won the 1953 National Book Award, remade the terrain of African American fiction and American fiction. Egan's theme of using music and sounds to convey nostalgia is wrapped up neatly here, and she paints the characters' lives as cyclical, like the playing of a favorite record. Sure, Kansas feels dull to Dorothy, but it's where the people who love her are. "I've shat in better places than this" Saved Blasted Hamlet Reveal 3. For the first time they had done something out of Love. Everything revolves around the identity of a mysterious criminal named Keyser Soze. II,1,385. The last bit of spoken dialogue is what's most likely to stick with audiences, and, if it's particularly poignant, it can seriously boost a film's reputation. Goodfellas ends with him stuck in the kind of lifestyle he always hoped to avoid. Aside from the obvious reference to Beauty and the Beast, the line is powerful because it, ironically enough, humanizes Kong a little. Its no real pleasure in life., 3. O, let me cry. Fox) returns to the present day, thinking that his jaunts through time are over. No wonder she dreams of going "somewhere over the rainbow." And they can kiss my sharries. In that haunting last line, we see the ultimate success of Big Brothers deception, and we feel the full atrocity of whats been done to Winston. All was well. During its initial release in 1999, Fight Club was widely misunderstood. Here are 21 of our favorite last lines in literature: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. by Charles Dickens (1843). The mourning narrator, Nick Carraway, places Gatsbys romantic quest in the context of those first Dutch settlers who projected their hopes on the lush shores of this now corrupted country. The narrative comes to us as a sprawling letter written by John Ames, a 77-year-old Congregationalist minister who fears he might die soon. 10. It is based on the true story of Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), a guy who grew up idolizing gangsters as a kid. Brilliant. We can stop at Mancini's and have a little dinner on the way. The really interesting thing, though, is that his parting words also offer a glimpse of hopeand the only one in Seven, for that matter. The Broom of the System, David Foster Wallace. The Handmaids Tale, by Margaret Atwood (1985), If you havent read Atwoods dystopian novel since it was first published, you may have forgotten what follows the story of Offreds resistance to the Republic of Gilead. ' Et tu Brute ' is the definitive accusation of someone who has deceived you or let you down. The strains of the piano and violin rose up weakly from below. Everyone is now free to have a good time at the club no matter who they are, where they come from, or how much money they have. 4 min. ", "For Siddalee Walker, the need to understand has passed, at least for the moment. ", Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells, "And so farewell from your little droog. ", "There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air. Isnt it pretty to think so?From The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt. Not love, necessarily, but a protective form of kinship. ", "It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan. Not Nolan's tale; it finds Batman absorbing all of Gotham's rage and hostility in order to preserve an important ideal. Sophocles. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1936) Set around the American Civil War, the Pulitzer-winning epic about collapsing worlds, rape and murder, slavery, starvation, war and doomed love not only gave literature the most brutal break up line in literature ("My dear, I don't give a damn"), but also one of the most hopeful final flourishes. Alices Adventures in Wonderland , Lewis Carroll. The strains of the piano and violin rose up weakly from below. That contrast is most evident in the final moments. Its possible to measure the weight of a novel by the size of its impact crater. When the applause dies down, he asks, Are there any questions? Those of us staring at a Supreme Court now tipping away from womens reproductive rights probably have several questions. ", "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known. You may deny me, but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no. Hint. Advertisement Famous Last Lines in Movies Quiz. It was, in so many ways, a film ahead of its time. And Carlson said, 'Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin' them two guys? Its final scene, the culmination of a relentless series of hardships, losses and deaths, offers a moment of startling compassion and intimacy the very milk of human kindness made flesh. I been there before. A few quotes stand out, whether for their wit, the poetic elegance with which they ponder love, or their heartbreakingly accurate depiction of anguish. She responds by shooting him. '", "I lost track after a while, happy to be home, weeping for my father, and thinking about what was next. 2023 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Marty asks if there are roads in the future, to which Doc (Christopher Lloyd) replies, "Roads? ", "But the naming game involves only male names, because if it's a girl, Laila has already named her. Stane has a personal agenda that involves manipulating the company for his own personal gain. Although shes still a teenager with a teenagers silly attitudes and interests, death has given her preternatural insight into the suffering of those shes left behind. Old feelings are rekindled, though, and there's a part of Rick that just wants to keep Ilsa around for himself. Rabbit eventually crawls home, determined to be better, but his flight instinct is not so easily quelled. I think its the tension between the countrysides utter destruction and the fathers adamant love, all rendered in a style as spare as a sun-bleached bone. Here are 23 final lines that I have never forgotten. Nancy Dell'Olio v Jeremy Paxman, Quiz: match the stage directions to the play, Which Shakespeare characters speak these lines? It's Life carrying on. Now, they are on the same side of a political cause. Although two centuries have passed since Dr. Victor Frankenstein turned loose into the world a depraved wretch, his creatures plaintive cry still moves anyone who has a beating heart. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (2006). Before moving to Washington, he edited the books section of the Christian Science Monitor in Boston. Till we felt our eyes could meet again, without the tears. But, eventually, he's caught in a pinch by the Feds. In this closing scene, the lovely Lady Brett tempts Jake once again to imagine what a damned good time they could have had. The tale of Max, the mischievous boy sent to bed without his supper, was Sendaks greatest achievement, the perfect pairing of text and image. by Mary Shelley (1818). Snow fell from the darkening, leaden sky. ", Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, "Light falls through the window, falls onto me, into me. All was well. A beautiful, or at least effective, final sentence anchors a story in a reader's mind long after the book is finished. ", "I'm fine. The there was a knock on the door, I opened the door, and the new gerbil walked in. The Road won a Pulitzer Prize and even spurred the normally shy author to agree to speak with Oprah for his first-ever television interview. quiz. 'You can trust me,' R.V. By Benjamin Voigt. ", "The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off. But, for movies, the opposite is often true. ", The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger, "The old man was dreaming about the lions. It's a last chance for a good first impression. E.T. ", "Later on he will understand how some men so loved her, that they did dare much for her sake. Osgood announces his intention to marry Daphne, at which point Jerry rips off the wig and exposes himself as a man. There are few lines in all of cinema as cynical as that one. I carry a lot of scars. The now-college-aged Andy gives all his old toysincluding Buzz Lightyear and beloved cowboy doll Woodyto a little girl. ", Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery, "And so we stayed out in the garden of the old house until we couldnt see to kick a ball, laughing in the gathering twilight, my mother and son, my wife and our daughter, making the most of the good weather and all the days that were left, our little game watched only by next doors cat, and every star in the heavens. First Line: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.". In prose of striking clarity, Rev. 1. ", "For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration. ", "Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea as Mr. Patel, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger. It's the next breath we all take. '", "Archie, for one, watched the mouse. ", "He turned away to give them time to pull themselves together; and waited, allowing his eyes to rest on the trim cruiser in the distance. The miserable change now at my end. If On a Winters Night a Traveler , Italo Calvino. One of his associates leads him away from the scene of a standoff, offering the advice, "forget it, Jake. The children cheered wildly. They were uncommonly proud. The right parting words help to drive the story's theme home in a meaningful way, encapsulating its entire point. The story he tells sometimes horrific, sometimes absurd, often both takes him across the country, from a Southern state college for Negroes to Harlem, where he falls in and out with a black activist group. The king doth keep his revels . Of course, former slaves and historians had described the horrors of slavery before, but nearly 125 years after Emancipation, Morrison made the psychological legacy of the Souths peculiar institution palpable as no other book ever had. ", A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce, "'God's in his heaven, alls right with the world,' whispered Anne softly. The mystery ends with a revelation of incest, the death of a major character, and a lot of bad people still left to do their thing. As the movie wraps up, Somerset, in voiceover, says, "Ernest Hemingway once wrote, 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' Considering Salingers many decades as the nations most famous recluse, were tempted, of course, to consign that same pain to the author. Image: Warner Brothers/Getty Images . Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision.From To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. He may have been a beast, but he was a beast with heart. He's asked what it is, to which he replies "the stuff that dreams are made of.". the heroines decision to walk into the sea and drown herself. Tony Stark, never one to do things in a conventional manner, defies tradition by letting the world know who the iron-clad hero they've been following really is. While nowhere close to historically accurate, it's a fine example of cinematic wish fulfillment. To honour it, we have curated eight thought-provoking lines from some of the world's most famous plays- from Macbeth to Harry Potter And The Cursed Child. I have bad dreams but I never saw Mister Duck again. Orwells protagonist, Winston Smith, works as a reviser of historical records in the Ministry of Truth before becoming a member of a doomed resistance movement. Indeed, the Western image of the poetyouthful, idealistic, inspired . ", "I went on my way. The final scene finds him with the statue in his hands. "But that is another tale, and as I said in the beginning, this is just a story meant to be read in bed in an old house on a rainy night. Only months after it was published, Fitzgerald referred to Gatsby as a flop, and copies of the second printing were gathering dust in the publishers warehouse 15 years later when he died. The plays . Even today, millions of people think of the ravages of the Great Depression through the lens of Steinbecks story. ". Some are incredibly famous examples, others perhaps a little less obvious. From classics such as George Orwells Animal Farm to L. Frank Baums The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Stylistrounds up the most memorable 100 last lines from literature ever written. "From The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. '"From Candide by Voltaire. Salinger. quiz, Canyou identify the first lines of these plays? All that was left was love and wonder. Upon being arrested, Norma, who is convinced that the newsreel cameras filming her capture are part of her movie production, exclaims, "Alright, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.". Then, Doc arrives in the DeLorean, informing him that there's a personal crisis in his future. In the final pages, the narrator knows some readers will continue to ignore the relevance of his life: Youll fail to see how any principle that applies to you could apply to me. But he knows thats not true. The framing device entails the only guy who can pinpoint Soze, Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey) telling customs agent Dave Kujan (Chazz Palminteri) a long, complex story about how he entered the villain's world and took part in a heist. please." Jay Gatsby, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald "Well, good-by." God, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams "Oh dear, I hadn't thought of that." Hamlet, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare I got my thousand-yard stare. Though were of the opinion that you could take any of Nabokovs sentences at random and put them on any best-of list with no problems, this may be the best ending to an impressionistic memoir about perception, memory and the haziness of reality: There, in front of us, where a broken row of houses stood between us and the harbor, and where the eye encountered all sorts of stratagems, such as pale-blue and pink underwear cakewalking on a clothesline, or a ladys bicycle and a striped cat oddly sharing a rudimentary balcony of cast iron, it was most satisfying to make out among the jumbled angles of roofs and walls, a splendid ships finnel, showing from behind the clothesline as something in a scrambled picture Find What the Sailor Has Hidden that the finder cannot unsee once it has been seen. But no one can forget Vivien Leigh I mean Scarlett OHara uttering that blithely optimistic line, which has since slid away from its source and entered our vernacular as an expression of gallows humor. Rate this book. "For both of us a new life is beginning" Constellations An Ideal Husband Chimerica 3. Following a very complicated plot filled with unexpected twists and turns, Spade turns Brigid O'Shaughnessy (Mary Astor), the woman who hired him in the first place, over to the police for murder despite the fact that he has developed feelings for her. The Usual Suspects ends with a callback in which Verbal provides a very telling quote: "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist. Good . Our annual survey of the best books includes 10 we think are exceptionally rewarding and 100 more notable titles you shouldnt miss. A beautiful, or at least effective, final sentence anchors a story in a reader's mind long after the book is finished. 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