<Li> Beverly Weston discusses the line "Life is very long" at the beginning of August: Osage County . </Li> <Li> In George Cukor's classic remake of A Star Is Born (1954), Jack Carson's film studio PR man Matt Libby refers to the death of James Mason's character Norman Maine dismissively, quoting: "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang - with a whimper ." </Li> <Ul> <Li> Stephen King's The Dark Tower series contains multiple references to "The Hollow Men" (as well as The Waste Land, most prominently The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands (1991)). </Li> <Li> King also makes reference to "The Hollow Men" in Pet Sematary (1983) with: "Or maybe someone who had escaped from Eliot's poem about the hollow men . I should have been a pair of ragged claws," the latter sentence of which is taken from Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915). </Li> <Li> Nevil Shute's novel, On the Beach (1957), takes its name from the second stanza of Part IV of the poem and extracts from the poem, including the passage in which the novel's title appears, have been printed in the front papers of some editions of the book including the 1957 first US edition . </Li> <Li> Kami Garcia's novel Beautiful Creatures contains this quote . </Li> <Li> Karen Marie Moning's Fever Series novel, Shadowfever, contains quotes from this poem . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Stephen King's The Dark Tower series contains multiple references to "The Hollow Men" (as well as The Waste Land, most prominently The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands (1991)). </Li>

So this is how it ends not with a bang