Quotes About Closure

It's why we close the eyes, too. The dead shouldn't have to look on the lewd aliveness of the living.

The statute of limitations has expired on most of our childhood traumas.

An apology is a good way to have the last word.

Death is not poison but merely life's final remedy.

Death is just a final breath.

Fires all go out eventually.

He had learned to get along without her. Her meaning was forgotten. There was no place for her in his scheme of things, as there was no place for him in hers.

Ma tutte le cose cattive, come quelle buone, hanno una fine...

Todos, el bueno y el malvado, el fuerte y el débil, el que amaba la vida y el que la maldecía, todos, todos acababan muriendo.

But for Maisie the case notes would not be filed away until those whole lives were touched by her investigation had reached a certain peace with her findings, with themselves, and with one another - as far as that might be possible.

Sometimes I feel as if, when you throw that big clod of earth onto the coffin, you're not just startin' to fill the 'ole in the ground but the big gapin' one that's been blown in your life.

five traits: decision, desire, will, closure, and security.

But the new priest in town, this Father Ybarra, who had come north to see if the missions should be closed down, absolutely forbade her to step foot inside Santa Teresa: "This place is not for women. If God had intended you to enter these precincts, he would have made women friars.

For I understood, at the bottom of my heart, that we had never talked, that now we never would.

That's what makes death so hard—unsatisfied curiosity. —BERYL MARKHAM

There are places from which you cannot return. There is damage that can be irreparable.

For the worst things of our lives, it is sometimes the best way, to never speak of them again.

I don't think I'm going to be back on 'This Is Us.' I think that Uncle Ricky had his moment; he did what he had to do.

I don't like when you necessarily know that this is the end of the movie. I like when a movie ends abruptly. You go through this, and some of the scenes are uncomfortable, and some are funny - and then suddenly it's over.

I'm not friends with any of my exes, and I've never understood the appeal.

My biggest misfortune, my greatest regret, is that I wish I'd cut my time with Clint in half. I wouldn't say I wish I never had the relationship, but I wish I'd found a way - I'd understood who he was, where it would end - five or six years earlier so I could have gotten on with things.

Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.

I don't like to leave anything unfinished. I have an absolute need to see that every phone call is returned, every letter answered.

My final fight was called 'Unfinished Business' - and I finished it.