Quotes About Closure

Certain stories that you want to see resolve in certain ways are, and some aren't, but that's life.

I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.

To be honest, I'm not that good at staying friends. I like to move on after a relationship ends. If I break up with somebody, I don't want to see her or hear from her.

No one wants life to end. It was bad enough when my last tour came to an end.

It's so much easier to walk away than it is to have to explain to someone that you never want to see them again.

In writing for movies, you obviously want to resolve things and have a sense of completion at the end - in an ideal way.

I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.

He could deal with his guilt all by himself. Guilt didn't add up to love, an emotion she was done with forever.

Finishing a book always left her with a heart and mind full of conflicting emotions.

And how they could have forgotten him, as though he was just a character in a book, dismissed once the covers closed?

Yet the fact that most listeners do not know how to account for the overwhelming push for closure they experience in this music means that it often seems like a force of nature rather than a human ideological construct.

Death doesn't ever look at shoulda, though, does it? Death looks at nothing. It just does what it's meant to do.

Now I was also trying to understand how someone could end such intense desire without leaving a trace. If you had really loved something, wouldn't a little bit of it always linger? A couple of houseplants? A dinky Home Depot Phalaenopsis in a coffee can? I personally have always found giving up on something a thousand times harder than getting it started, but evidently Laroche's finishes were downright and absolute, and what's more, he also shut off any chance of amends.

Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return.

By the way, I know about the kiss." Then the door clicks shut behind him.

To me, there's no point in talking about things that might have been.

So in the fading light I shut my eyes and kiss Gale to make up for all the kisses I've withheld, and because it doesn't matter anymore, and because I'm so desperately lonely I can't stand it.

The marriage is over; counseling is the eulogy. The relationship autopsy is the wake.

Well, I think you should leave the past in the past. Things happened during the war that might not have happened any other time. You won't be doing anyone any favours digging up a load of trouble after all this time

Love isn't always about keeping someone. Sometimes it's about letting them go

I am truly, finally done. I love the DeVitos, and I hope I stay in contact with them, but going back has made me realize I made the right decision. The past couple of years have given me a lot of valuable experience. But sometimes I think if I had to do it all over again, I am not sure I would have. The pain of leaving the kids was so much greater than I ever imagined. I just didn't put enough thought into the good-byes.

Dallas closes the leather case, set to store it away in her closet. She looks at the message one last time, memorizes it, and leaves the postcard on the table before she walks away. You matter.

We were never good with good-byes.

Any beginning is also an ending, you know. You can't have just the one.