Quotes About Closure

Take a deep breath, open your eyes, and close the book.

A vida é como um livro, filho. E todo livro tem um fim. Não importa o quanto você goste do livro você vai chegar na última página e ele vai terminar. Nenhum livro é completo sem o fim. E quando você chega lá somente quando você lê as últimas palavras é que você vê como o livro é bom. Ele parece mais real.

We walk back to town, and he looks at me seriously and he says, 'Sadie, when you tell this story, say I asked you at the glass flower exhibit. Don't say it was closed.' The myth, the narrative, whatever you want to call it, was always of supreme importance to Sam.

I didn't know how else to leave

Sam knew the foot was gone. He could see it was gone. He knew what he was experiencing was a basic error in programming, and he wished he could open up his brain and delete the bad code. Unfortunately, the human brain is every bit as closed a system as a Mac.

YOU CAN KIND of see them if you get on your tippy toes and look over the fence," A.J. says. "There, in the distance!" They had left Alice at seven that morning, taken the ferry to Hyannis, then driven two hours to Portsmouth only to discover that the Green Animals Topiary Garden is closed from November through May. A.J. finds that he cannot make eye contact with either his daughter or Lambiase. It is twenty-nine degrees, but shame is keeping him warm.

The real gift of the holiday season, A.J. thinks, is that it ends.

Endings can be happy or sad, I don't care anymore as long as it's earned.

Revenge never heals what's broken.

Sometimes you can't let go of the past without facing it again.

Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.

We had a good run, and now it's over; what's wrong with that?

Because let me tell you, it was a happy ending.

Thanks," I said. "Go home," he said.

But I opened up each pale eye within me and inquired until I found enough to tell me to rummage some more, and then I tried to close all the eyes again at once, to seal each back—for their own good, for their safety. Each was already crisscrossed with darkness and scars and damage, and awakening them seemed only to damage them worse, so better to keep them asleep.

If you can leave a relationship with love, empathy, and compassion, without any thoughts of revenge, hatred, or fear, that is how you let go. You can choose to no longer have a relationship with that person or persons.

the dead are now avenged. This case is closed.

Death is the only grammatically correct full stop…

I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly.

Some things can never be left behind.

Es un buen libro aquel que se abre con expectación y se cierra con provecho".

Life and hope must cease together.

seemed to him that every two seconds the fates arranged for him to say goodbye to someone. All of it, of course, leading up to the final send-off.

Not long thereafter, Danny appeared with us for the last time, at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on March 20, 2008. In the band we all knew this was it. We wouldn't see Danny onstage again.