Here are 23 final lines that I have never forgotten. Eventually, all is revealed to be a dream, one from which she gladly awakens. For generations of us, this is the first final line that knocked our booties off. They succeed, and, in the end, they're forced to say an emotional goodbye before the little Reese's Pieces-eater hops on his starship. These dramatic works encompass a wide range of subjects and styles, from the playful "A Midsummer Night's Dream" to the gloomy "Macbeth." Shakespeare's plays can be roughly divided into three . John Huston's 1941 noir masterpiece The Maltese Falcon is the story of private detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart), who is investigating a case involving a quest by multiple individuals to procure a falcon statue that is encrusted with jewels. . The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (2006). 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. I was eager to embrace the world. The 2008 Marvel movie Iron Man tells Tony Stark's origin story, showing how the billionaire playboy industrialist develops his trademark suit of armor and starts fighting crime. Rick speaks it later in the movie to bid Ilsa farewell and the odd, unsentimental phrase has come to be one of the most romantic . He raised his baton. Filmmaker Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong) corrects the officer, saying "no, it wasn't the airplanes. "From How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid. Books, poetry, etc?I always likedquote: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back. Old feelings are rekindled, though, and there's a part of Rick that just wants to keep Ilsa around for himself. Here's to it!" Anthony Marston "I'm all right now. "For both of us a new life is beginning" Constellations An Ideal Husband Chimerica 3. The bottom line, though, is that it's about the way that the desire for anything valuable, monetary or otherwise, can lead people down dark roads in their efforts to obtain it. After all, tomorrow is another day. The Finish Line - 10 questions - 3 mins. ", The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "My personal rollercoaster. The Concord Public Library in Massachusetts banned it soon after it was published. And we never forgot it. It's the next breath we all take. "From Ulysses by James Joyce. While nowhere close to historically accurate, it's a fine example of cinematic wish fulfillment. The Extra-Terrestrial, 10 Best Comedy Movies Of 2021, According To IMDb. ", "There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it, you've got to stand it. Plays Sonnets Poems Concordance Advanced Search About OSS. 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. The DeLorean then launches into the air and zooms right toward the camera. ", "Of course, it's only superstition, just for fun. The Extra-Terrestrial tracks the relationship between an adorable alien visitor who has accidentally been stranded on Earth and the young boy he befriends. 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. Having a perfect capper ensures the movie will linger in the viewer's head long after it's over. Let me cry, my love. They spark interest by stating a hard truth that seemingly comes from deep within the narrator's (or writer's) soul. These famous lines appear in the fourth act of Henry V, one of Shakespeare's most commonly read history plays. We arrive at the final page in a state of utter desolation. quiz, Canyou identify the first lines of these plays? His story about a reformed miser was an immediate bestseller, and, a few years later, he began offering public readings that attracted enormous crowds in England and America. Where we're going, we don't need roads!" Salinger. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning. 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. But you, O my brothers, remember sometimes thy little Alex that was. Hamlet's dying 'The rest is silence,' is the perfect end of anything. "Oh, Jake, Brett said, we could have had such a damned good time together. Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. Her parting words are Sunset Boulevard's stinging, darkly funny punchline. The last line of DFW's first novel hints at what else he had in store. E.T. "Then starting home, he walked toward the trees, and under them, leaving behind him the big sky, the whisper of wind voices in the wind-bent wheat. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Gordon reluctantly agrees. The Catcher in the Rye, See what he did there?! Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince by J.K. Rowling "Severus. The entire Toy Story series deals with the connection between playthings and the children who own them. by Mary Shelley (1818). This is a moment of much-needed levity after the nail-biting intensity of the final battle which everything else in Jaws skillfully builds toward. ", "And here she is, herself, Clarissa, not Mrs. Dalloway anymore; there is no one now to call her that. thought Archie. Play: Mixed 'Famous Last Lines' Quiz. Its a deeply contemplative story about a man whose inept parents were imprisoned for bank robbery, leaving him and his twin sister to fend for themselves when they were 15. 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, And they can kiss my sharries. I play video games. Part of HuffPost News. During its initial release in 1999, Fight Club was widely misunderstood. Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. 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. There is no better portrayal of 20th-century white men than the Pulitzer Prize-winning Rabbit series, which went on to include Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest and the novella Rabbit Remembered. Each book ends with an echo of the first novels last word, a subtle coda that ties together the stages of Rabbits life. Then she feels a pressure on her hand and he speaks his first words for a week. Being burdened by heavy stones, the old man gave his last speech: "More weight". Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, ", "It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan. The Silence Of The Lambs "I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner." Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) 127 33 2. ", The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945, Wladyslaw Szpilman, "This is not a full circle. But how painfully ironic that Americas most macho author should be remembered for a novel about an impotent man. He uncovers a corruption scandal within the Los Angeles Department of Power and Water. The movie ends with police boss Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains) suggesting that he and Rick join the Free French army. Orwells classic dystopian novel about a totalitarian state has never gone out of print, but it got a huge boost two years ago from the election of Donald Trump. It's a last chance for a good first impression. And us so happy. 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. There is deep, delicious irony in this line. ", "And then, while the pretty brunette girl finished singing her verse, he buzzed me through like I was someone who mattered. All that was left was love and wonder. 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 Lament nor sorrow at; but please your thoughts. The scene takes place before the Battle of Agincourt in Northern France, specifically on October 25th, 1415 (a day known as Saint Crispin's Day). Roman Polanski's Chinatown provides Jack Nicholson with one of his most iconic roles, that of private investigator Jake Gittis. It's virtually impossible not to tear up in this touching, heartfelt moment. No name can be read there. and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes. Into this upper-crust club comes condo developer Al Czervik (Rodney Dangerfield). Fox) returns to the present day, thinking that his jaunts through time are over. 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. But it was another girl, young and new to the city, fiddling with her keys. The miserable change now at my end. "From A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan. ", "Again and again I called out for Midori from the dead centre of this place that was no place. . It's Chinatown.". 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. They win, much to the judge's dismay. ", "'From the Land of Oz,' said Dorothy gravely. He's asked what it is, to which he replies "the stuff that dreams are made of.". Together, they attempt to assemble a "phone" that E.T. A few quotes stand out, whether for their wit, the poetic elegance with which they ponder love, or their heartbreakingly accurate depiction of anguish. ", "At that, as if it had been the signal he waited for, Newland Archer got up slowly and walked back alone to his hotel. Although initially attacked for its fierce critique of unregulated capitalism, The Grapes of Wrath was a phenomenal bestseller and won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize. 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. Censors objections have shifted over the years (from truancy to the n-word), but its been banned in parts of the country ever since. (Caliban, Act 3 Scene 2) Our revels now are ended. But see how fast the smoke rises--oh, even faster when we laugh, lifting our hopes, higher and higher. "I've shat in better places than this" Saved Blasted Hamlet Reveal 3. 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. ", "But that is the beginning of a new story - the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. Its also worth noting that Mitchell didnt coin the phrase; it appeared as a well-known maxim in the first volume of Harpers Weekly in 1857. The Grapes of Wrath, A character in one of Jess Walters novels says, A book can only end one of two ways: truthfully or artfully. Alas, most dont end truthfully or artfully, but there are rare exceptions: novels that conclude with such gracefully calibrated language that we close the back cover and feel physically imprinted, as though the words were pressed into us by a weight we can hardly fathom. Her extraordinary novel Their Eyes Were Watching God fell out of print and was essentially forgotten, until Alice Walker rediscovered it in the 1970s. Till we felt our eyes could meet again, without the tears. ", Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, "Light falls through the window, falls onto me, into me. It eats Quint (Robert Shaw), escapes an effort by Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) to spear it with poison, then attacks Brody, who is on a sinking boat. She's considering the idea, too. Crime, however, does not payor at least not for very longand his house of cards comes crumbling down. These final words suggest that Kong had some kind of primitive feelings for Ann. 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. The final moments find the Caped Crusader (Christian Bale) in a tough spot. The right parting words help to drive the story's theme home in a meaningful way, encapsulating its entire point. I am serious, and dont call me Shirley. Osgood announces his intention to marry Daphne, at which point Jerry rips off the wig and exposes himself as a man. Best description weve ever read of rationalizing one decision over and over as you make the other decision with your body: They were frantic, calling out to him, but they were dead, as dead as the ancient dead, and he was alive, he was needed at home, it was a no-brainer, no one could possibly blame him for this one, and making a low sound of despair in his throat he kicked off his loafers and threw his long ugly body out across the water. Portrait by Sophie Herxheimer. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald. O, let me cry. The Catcher in the Rye , J.D. Toy Story 3 (2010) "So Long, Partner." Toy Story 3 ends on a note that is both beautiful and sob-inducing. Hooper plays along with the joke, and the audience gets a laugh that breaks the tension before the credits roll. ", "She opened the door wide and let him into her life again. Aside from the obvious reference to Beauty and the Beast, the line is powerful because it, ironically enough, humanizes Kong a little. 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). Scholars of Elizabethan drama believe that William Shakespeare wrote at least 38 plays between 1590 and 1612. One of his associates leads him away from the scene of a standoff, offering the advice, "forget it, Jake. The Usual Suspects isn't just a movie; it's a magic trick. From classics such as George Orwells Animal Farm to L. Frank Baums The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Jung Changs Wild Swans, weve scoured the Stylist book shelf for the best closing lines (or, in some cases to give context, the best final few lines) ever written. ", Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak, "I wrote at the start that this was a record of hate, and walking there beside Henry towards the evening glass of beer, I found the one prayer that seemed to serve the winter mood: O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone forever. ", "I'm fine. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended. 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. ", "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. ", "It's funny. They show the delusions of Norma Desmond, who remains a legend in her own mind. Anyone who has ever seen Se7en cannot forget its harrowing ending. Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked, I cried to dream again. Previously, their dealings were driven by individual self-interest. ", "Might I trouble you then to be ready in half an hour, and we can stop at Marcinis for a little dinner on the way? "She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life. It's Life carrying on. Then after a 15 year hiatus came A Gate at the Stairs, about a witty young woman trying to figure out adult life in the face of two unspeakable tragedies. TV, Film & Music. "He loved Big Brother. He and Rick suddenly have things of substance in common. 5. Surely we have learned by now that such judgments are of necessity culture-specific. The lessons of the past, he notes chillingly, are obscured by the passage of time. While the line can certainly be taken literally, this could also be interpreted as the director inserting a comment about the film. The children were excited. He wants Mills (Brad Pitt) to kill him so that he can finish his series of murders based on the seven deadly sins. Roy Scheider's Brody spends the movie trying to get the citizens of Amity Islandespecially the town's mayorto take his shark warnings seriously. "This game is seven-card stud" A Streetcar Named Desire Journey's End Dealer's Choice Reveal 2. 8. "'Excellently observed,' answered Candide; 'but we must cultivate our garden. Repetition and cynicism may have reduced Tiny Tims final prayer to a saccharine cliche, but the tale of lives reformed and saved has lost none of its real sweetness. ", "I went on my way. ", "She had started to cry softly. Sign up for the latest news and must-read features from Stylist, so you don't miss out on the conversation. After so much trauma and the exhausting exorcism that concludes the novel, what other ending would do but a final invocation of that child who represents so many snuffed out by our nations foundational sin? 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. This is certainly one of the most famous lines of dialoguefinal or notin cinematic history. ", "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. South-south-west, south, south-east, east ", "I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. It is true that there is nothing like a blaze in the hearth to soothe the nerves and restore order to a house. "From In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Considering Salingers many decades as the nations most famous recluse, were tempted, of course, to consign that same pain to the author. "If music be the food of love, play on" Twelfth Night Romeo and Juliet A Midsummer Night's Dream Reveal 2. Although it inspired considerable condemnation at the time, its now recognized as one of the earliest modernist novels and a foundational feminist text. Its possible to measure the weight of a novel by the size of its impact crater. The ending would be a downer were it not for Gordon's admiring words. The movie's suggestion that power and corruption are inextricably connected certainly gave it resonance for audiences of that era. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. "In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment. This Civil War story cleverly blends biographical details about the real Bronson Alcott, Louisa Mays father, with elements of the fictional Mr. March, who has gone south to serve as a chaplain to Union soldiers. Rabbit eventually crawls home, determined to be better, but his flight instinct is not so easily quelled. He watched it stand very still for a second with a smug look as if it exepcted nothing less. Inside, the agent comes to the shocking realization that he just let the real Keyser Soze get away. The miracle vitamins, the cures for cancer, the remedies for obesity. Mills' partner, Somerset (Morgan Freeman) tries to convince him not to shoot the killer because that would allow Doe to "win." ", The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest, Stieg Larsson, "Curley and Carlson looked after them. 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. The land is not to be sold.' He convinces Lt. Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) to let him take responsibility for the murders to avoid the dispiriting consequences. When a film has the perfect final line, the audience goes home on a high, and these are some of the very best examples of that. Advertisement. 19. Dont judge a book by its cover - instead, try and wait for the last line. ", "Yukiko's diarrhoea persisted through the twenty-sixth, and was a problem on the train to Tokyo. LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT by Eugene O'Neill [1956]. In prose of striking clarity, Rev. Her simple, final wish looks banal out of context, but after watching her family and her murderer for years, its devastatingly pure. Dorothy, relieved to be away from all that drama, looks at her aunt and exclaims "Auntie Em, there's no place like home!". The there was a knock on the door, I opened the door, and the new gerbil walked in. She gets her wish when a tornado hits and whisks her off to the magical land of Oz, where she makes some hip new friends and has to contend with a wicked witch and her flying monkeys. Alcott gives little indication of what horrors may have shaken Father during his fight for abolition, and Little Women ends with Mrs. March saying, Oh, my girls, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this. But by the time March returns to his happy home at the end of Brookss novel, we know him as the haunted survivor of carnage and a crushing spiritual crisis. His opponent duly humiliated, Al turns to the throng of spectators and gleefully announces "Hey, everybody! Mitchell's famous last lines are at once heartbreaking and hopeful. All was well. We follow them across hundreds of thousands of words, but the final line can make or break a book. Not Nolan's tale; it finds Batman absorbing all of Gotham's rage and hostility in order to preserve an important ideal. At the end, an attempt to kill the shark takes place. The definitiveness of this brusque sentence has a blunting effect, highlighting the bleakness of Orwell's predictions. people dont do such things. A few years later, Chopin ran right up against those same stultifying expectations in her last novel, The Awakening, about a wife and mother who falls in love with another man and begins to imagine a different life. Overcome with grief and a thirst for vengeance, Mills shoots him anyway. Most Beckettian closing to a Beckett novel: Perhaps its done already, perhaps they have said me already, perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I dont know, Ill never know, in the silence you dont know, you must go on, I cant go on, Ill go on. Hemingways vaguely autobiographical story about a group of dissipated friends in Europe after World War I has aged well. 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. There is an attempt to dry up land to drive orange-growers out of business. 'Im a man of my'"From The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace. Only six of our top 10 plays won Pulitzers. II,1,368. "Everything we need that is not food or love is here in the tabloid racks. ". ", Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells, "And so farewell from your little droog. Ending an entire book in the middle of a sentence is a bold and playful choice. Here are a few examples. Good . That contrast is most evident in the final moments. Perhaps the greatest failure of American literature, which is so bravely explicit about all other aspects of life, is its nervous avoidance of anything explicitly religious. By the movie's end, he has a super-suit of his own, which he uses to battle Stark, but Iron Man wins. Interesting cinematography and engaging introductory scenes are vital to reel viewers into a film, but a final line is perhaps even more important. Sometimes, famous last lines can be more famous than the work they come from. Wherein I lived, the greatest prince o' the world, The noblest; and do now not basely die, Not cowa. The tales of the supernatural and the extraterrestrial. 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