Quotes About Closure

Don't call me, I'll call you... I'm out.

Not many people whose series gets cancelled get to come and put the period at the end of the sentence.

Lots of shows get cancelled, and then they never get to end their stories. It's just over.

I am happy with the way I shot and ended my career.

I know the feeling after a catastrophic loss, to be so close and have it all just end.

All the Arsenal fans boo me, and when I look back, I understand where everything went wrong, but there are certain things in life you cannot come back to anymore.

When you go through a camp, you do a fight, you basically finish a chapter in your book.

It's really nice to see something come full circle.

When I finish a job, I surrender it completely. I have to, because after that, it really is out of my hands.

But he understood it was over, and he felt able to let her go. He was sure their life together had happened in the way he said it had. But it was something that had passed. And that passing--though it seemed impossible and he'd fought against it--would become part of him now, too, as surely as anything else he'd left behind.

To say goodbye is to die a little" - The Long Goodbye

Now go. An actor should know when to leave the stage, a poet when the lay is finished, and a bard when it is time to put aside the lute.

That's the end. I have to turn off the light now. Good night.

The Madingley paper56 represented a kind of closure for me, a climax to the first part of my scientific career, beginning in my early twenties and ending in my early thirties. At this point, I took off in an entirely new direction, never to return to those youthful mathematical pastures. That new direction, which was to define the rest of my career, and approximately the second half of my life, opened up with the publication of my first book, The Selfish Gene.

And so he poured himself with renewed determination into her arms, into her conversations, into her fears and jokes and stories, hoping that this intimacy would finally smother all memory of Amy Mulvaney.

If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here and they're over, and that has to be enough. The other view is a lie of literature and the liberal arts, which is why I did not succeed as a teacher, and another reason I put my novel away in the drawer and have not taken it out.

You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.

Did you leave me because of me? No, she said. I left you because of us.

The final tormenting, unanswerable question: what is 'success' in mourning?

La principal característica del remordimiento es que no tiene remedio: que ha pasado el tiempo de las disculpas o enmiendas

Be to, tas skausmas truko neilgai. Kaip min?jau, turiu stipr? savisaugos instinkt?. Man pavyko išstumti Veronik? iš širdies ir iš gyvenimo

From love's absolutism to love's absolution? No: I don't believe in the cosy narratives of life some find necessary, just as I choke on comforting words like redemption and closure. Death is the only closure I believe in; and the wound will stay open until that final shutting of the doors. As for redemption, it's far too neat, a movie-maker's bromide; and beyond that, it feels like something grand, which human beings are too imperfect to deserve, much less bestow upon themselves.

The thing I keep learning about endings is that they aren't a long time coming, and that they don't sneak up on you either, because endings just don't happen.

To her mind, things had been settled between them. I will keep my own counsel from now on. She