Quotes About Closure

You should not propose marriage until you have resolved your feelings about your ex.

I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.

I click END. I think it's a little harsh how the END button is red.

And the cosmos ends. Not with a bang but with a whimper.

So how do you feel about it?" "I'm not upset, but my mom was crying and it's the first time I've ever seen her cry. Dad always wanted whiskey poured on his grave, so my brother said, 'I just hope he doesn't mind me filtering it through my bladder first.'" Mystery

Everything had come good at last, after so many years. I had reached the happy ending of the story, and I was quietly, serenely happy. In the soft, velvety darkness I lay utterly at peace for I had finished with all heartaches, with all pains and worries; nothing could touch me now. I had finished the book but I could take it up and read it over and over again, and I would do so, secure in the knowledge of the happiness in the last chapter.

Leave-takings are stupid things, and best forgotten about as quickly as possible.

This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.

It was her dog getting killed that put the lid on it," said Viola, seven years later. "Funny, that, wasn't it? She stood up quite well when your brother got killed and when her father got killed, but when the dog got killed it finished her. I suppose she felt responsible or something." "I suppose she did," I said. "What happened after

The closure of the stock market and the intervention of the authorities to supply liquidity almost certainly averted a catastrophic fire-sale of assets.

I've been burdened by questions I've asked myself a thousand times since the last time we were together. Why did I do it? And would I do it again? It was I, you see, who ended it.

It might seem as the hardest thing to do, but you have to forget the guy who forgot about you.

If it's over, then don't let the past screw up the rest of your life.

Now it was coming to an end, and it was like he was watching the last flicker of light wink out in the darkness of an endless tunnel.

Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.

I know you loved her, but it's okay to let it go now. You know that, don't you? You've got to be able to let it go.

And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever.

And here it will end, one way or the other, she whispered again

Not really. I suppose it depends on how you look at it. For me . . . well, it just adds a richness you wouldn't otherwise get. People come, people go—they'll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past.

She paused, as if trying to organize her chaotic thoughts. "I didn't want to fall in love with anyone," she said. "I wasn't ready for that. I've been through that once, and afterwards I was a mess. I know it's different, but you'll be leaving in just a few days and all this will be over… and I'll be a mess again.

I finished your song, she said. Our last song.

I know but no matter what I choose I have to live with it. For ever. I have to be able to go forward and not look back any more. Can you understand that?

When I completed writing 'Soul Mountain,' I more or less closed the accounts with China for myself. I was 50 years old when I left, so China is already within me.

There's a little mourning process when you leave a show.