Quotes About Closure

Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.

Is it too late?" I asked Margot Cherry that afternoon. It's been more than thirty years and still I can remember how my voice shook. "How do we know when we've loved someone all that we can?

I think you have to know how you feel when you're sad and it's healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.

The end of THE END is the best place to begin THE END, because if you read THE END from the beginning of the beginning of THE END to the end of the end of THE END, you will arrive at the end.

If you like books with happy endings then put this book down immediately.

To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: 'That's the end of that

In any case, this is how all our stories begin, in darkness with our eyes closed, and all our stories end the same way, too, with all of us uttering some last words—or perhaps someone else's—before slipping back into darkness as our series of unfortunate events comes to an end.

When you apologize, it is a bit like reaching the last page of a book. The book is still there, with your wicked deed inside, but at least it is closed and put on a shelf. Every single thing I ought to have apologized for, and didn't, is like a book lying open and unfinished.

In any case, this is how all our stories begin, in darkness with out eyes closed, and all out stories end the same way, too.

Per esempio, una volta amavo una donna che per vari motivi non poteva sposarmi. Se me l'avesse detto di persona naturalmente sarei stato molto triste, ma alla fine mi sarebbe passata. Invece, lei scelse di scrivere un libro di duecento pagine, diffondendosi su ogni singolo dettaglio della cattiva notizia, prolungando così all'inverosimile la mia tristezza.

The denouement is the moment when all of the knots of a story are untied, and all the threads are unraveled, and everything is laid out clearly for the world to see. But the denouement should not be confused with the end of the story...It is often the second-to-last event, or the penultimate peril.

the stories that end in The End that began in The Bad Beginning are beginning to end now.

I don't want a happily ever after, Callum. I need an ending. No spin-offs or sequels. Just a standalone. And maybe someday, I'll get to hear your epilogue.

Death is finished, he said to himself. It is no more!

Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

When she said goodbye it was like a play ending. It was like the theater and coming out again to the streets.

That's it then. This is how it ends. I haven't even read Proust.

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

More than seven years were gone since this little history of sorrowful interest had reached its close; and time had softened down much, perhaps nearly all of peculiar attachment to him — but she had been too dependant on time alone.

The sooner every party breaks up, the better.

I am glad I have done being in love with him.

In lei rimaneva il ricordo di molte sensazioni di dolore, un tempo profondissimo, ma ora più mite; ricordi di rari barlumi di dolcezza, di momenti d'amicizia e di riconciliazione, che non poteva più aspettarsi di rivivere, ma che non avrebbero cessato d'esserle cari. Lasciava tutto questo alle sue spalle; tutto tranne il ricordo che quelle cose erano state

I wanted something seismic to happen at the end. I wanted him to wake up so we could somehow forgive each other, say we loved each another, move on with some sense of closure, for I knew this would be the last time I saw him, but he didn't wake up, and nothing was said.

Both trying to suppress the knowledge that hugs like this mean only one thing. GOODBYE.