Quotes About Closure

What's gone and what's past help should be past grief.

I put her burnt bones into my mouth and swallowed them whole.

It was really over, I thought. There was no way to go back, to make it stay. There was never that.

I'm going to be mad at you for the rest of my life.

I didn't want to hurt for him anymore, to wonder whether in leaving him I'd made a mistake, to torment myself with all the ways I'd wronged him.

From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more, forever.

I will fight no more forever

"Happily ever after" depends on where we choose to end the story.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar always means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

The speedway ends at the cemetery.

Don't cry because it's over; Smile because that asshole is finally someone else's problem.

Sometimes, it means that you love them enough to let them go because you want them to be happy, and you realized that you're just not able to be happy together.

Closure happens right after you accept that letting go and moving on is more important than projecting a fantasy of how the relationship could have been.

Our goal isn't outrageous. We simply want to live in dignity on our own land, see a just solution for the refugees, and closure to 55 years of injustice and denial of our own existence.

There is no such thing as closure for soldiers who have survived a war. They have an obligation, a sacred duty, to remember those who fell in battle beside them all their days and to bear witness to the insanity that is war.

I referred to the innate human need for what psychologist Arie Kruglanski was the first to label "cognitive closure," which he defined as "the individual's need for a firm answer to a question and aversion to ambiguity."[ 3]

I've buried all the hatchets. But I know where I've buried them and I can dig them up again if necessary.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

Elle wondered if he had regrets. But she didn't let herself wonder for too long. She had locked her heart up against him, and it would take something extraordinarily strong to break it open.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

There is a red line of intimacy that's been crossed. Exes know things about each other that friends never could. You've altered each other's emotional DNA. You can be friendly with an ex, but exes cannot be friends.

Ein Tempel ist das Menschenherz; ist sein Tor den Mitmenschen verschlossen, so ist es auch Gott verschlossen.

The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal. The variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, always ends in the same place. It has an end. It comes to the end and has to start over. It is not a journey and return, but a closed cycle, a locked room, a cell.