Quotes About Closure

He'd left for a reason, and I didn't want to be anyone's blast from the past. Still, not knowing was worse than any potential awkwardness.

I'd wrestle with it and then I'd get over it. I couldn't change it; it was done.

Too bad you didn't ask your aunt more questions before you killed her . . .

Even at the very end of life, healing a relationship can transform the history of a family. A relationship that is complete need not end; in this context, complete means there is nothing left unsaid or undone. When a dying person and a loved one come to feel complete between themselves, time together tends to be as full of joy and loving affection as sadness.

I am sorry that our friendship, or whatever name one may give to the obsessive relationship which has bound us together for so many years, should end in this way. This is not the place to utter its elegy.

He felt as if something had been completed and he would never see any of those people again.

I have battered destructively and in vain upon the mystery of someone else's life and must cease at last.

I must think of him as vanished utterly and gone forever.

You can go now. There's nothing more to learn. I am poured out and empty. Good night.

I must tell her, but later, later, later, when it's all long finished and no longer an agony.

Good-bye to the past, with its mysteries which would never be fully unfolded.

Only let the scene end soon and without any horrors.

It was too late to go back. There was a hand which could never, in grace and healing, be laid upon him now.

It ceased at last, as everything dreadful has to cease, even if it ceases only by death.

It was like a comedy by Shakespeare. All the ends of the story were being bound up in a good way.

Let him die peacefully in his sleep and not know. Only not tonight, not tonight.

The past buries the past and must end in silence, but it can be a conscious silence that rests open-eyed.

Óóó. É sempre bom abandonar alguém que diz que gostaria de ver você de novo, porque inevitavelmente chegaria o dia em que você ia ter que abandonar essa pessoa porque ela não quer ver você de novo.

Despite the grief, there was no disguising the sense of relief in the air.

It lasted for a long time, I believe. A very long time. It was a great success, but even great successes come to a natural end.

si uno vive lo suficiente, los círculos se cierran.

although they knew this was a mere formality. Victor felt relieved: if one lives long enough, circles close.

Não há nada tão insatisfatório como um fim com pontas soltas, essa tendência moderna de deixar os livros a meio.

L'unica cosa che voglio è chiudere gli occhi e smettere di esistere, dissolvermi nel vuoto, come la nebbia all'alba