Quotes About Closure

You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesnt mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.

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Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but don't come back, ok?

So he had thrust her out of his heart as he always did with anyone who tried to stay there too long.

And then her voice could help this story to find a good ending at last.

Strange how a story sometimes seems to end just how it started, in a circle.

Really, we did not share a vocabulary that would allow for such a conversation; it was far too late to tell her anything.

He had locked her out of his mind and out of his life. She could no longer get through to him, to make him feel the way she used to. He just wanted to forget about her and the way she played on his feelings — the same way she used to play on the guitar, he thought, remembering for a minute. He knew now just how badly she had played the guitar.

From that day to this, I have made it a rule to throw into the wastebasket all the problems that I can no longer do anything about.

Of course, you can't saw sawdust!" Mr Shedd exclaimed. "It's already sawed! And it's the same with the past. When you start worrying about things that are over and done with, you're merely trying to saw sawdust.

I have to burn the bridges to eternity

Print encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalized, has reached a state of completion.

And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep;And good-bye to the bar and its moaning.

come on, you" (last words from flight 128)

When we allow ourselves to feel these painful feelings, give them an accurate name, and when we share the grief with safe and supportive others over time, we are able to complete our grief work and thus be free of it.

I had to let her go. She's not coming back. The distance is too great. The mountain between us is the one mountain I cannot climb.

I had to let her go. She's not coming back. The distance is too great. The mountain between us is the one mountain I cannot climb. I thought you should know.

Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes. This... is goodbye. But not out last hello.

You can't tell a dead man you're sorry.

Final words are hard to hear when you know for certain they are indeed final. And I knew for certain.

know, Will. I know. I wish it didn't have to be like this, but you know how it is. You're an Asian Man. Your story was great, while it lasted, but now it's done. I hope our paths cross again. Maybe somewhere else.

You wanted something to happen, right? " Rick says. "For all of this to be leading up to something? Closure," Rick says, pointing at the manila envelope. "That is definitely one way to have closure." "I didn't say I wanted closure. Drama. I said I wanted drama." "What do you think drama is, Murray?" "How about something more open-ended?" "Oh sure, that can be arranged, too," Rick says. "But even open-ended stories have to end at some point, right? Open endings, after all, are still endings.

Guess I'll hang it up for tonight. Goodnight planet earth. God bless.

I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.