Quotes About Closure

I'd decided to write him and tell him to leave me alone. Please, in a nice way, go away, I really can't deal with you.

It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.

What do you do with your anger when the person you're mad at goes off and dies? Bury it? Bury it inside you?

Death is a sort of lens, thought I used to think of it as a wall or shut door. It changes things and makes them clear.

It is wrong, I think, to deal with the past as if it can be simply departed from or "solved," or brought to "closure." It is discouraging to see the conservatives treat history as one of the "humanities" that can be dispensed with or ignored by hardheaded realists. It is both discouraging and amusing to be assured by the liberals that the past can be risen above by superior persons who, if they had been Thomas Jefferson, would have owned no slaves.

The thing about leaving something behind for the last time is that you rarely realize you're doing it.

It didn't feel like the last night of anything anymore, just that the world went on and would follow us home

When the social groups involved in designing and using technology decide that a problem is solved, they stabilize the technology. The result is closure. Closure and stabilization, however, are not isolated events; they occur repeatedly during technological development. To

My shutting the door won't keep him from coming back. Your shutting the door will. Have you the courage to shut it? Are you fond enough of him not to stand in his light?

It will be better for both of us Let me go.

It was like the last act on a set stage. It was the beginning of the end of something, he didn't know what except that he would not grieve. He would be humble and proud that he had been found worthy to be a part of it too or even just to see it too.

He never saw Molly again.

We are come not only past the century's closing, he thought, the millennium's turning, but to the end of something else. Era? Paradigm? Everywhere, the signs of closure.

I cried out not with hope of an ear but as accepting a shut door, darkness and a shut sky.

I have been in the revenge business so long, now that it is over I do not know what to do with the rest of my life.

But I must never love again.

These windings up of unfinished years continue till the unfinished life winds up.

These felt very much like last moments.

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with the loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Create a need for closure.

Linda closed the door without answering. She searched the car again to ensure she hadn't missed anything before the State Police arrived. A tattered highway atlas. Three empty packs of cigarettes, a lighter, a packet of ketchup, four stale French fries, and a corpse.

When Death comes, I want to be ready.

Du siehst es ja an uns beiden, wie schwierig es ist, nein, wie unmöglich es ist, seine eigenen Eltern mit der Wahrheit zu konfrontieren. Und dann das Ganze einigermassen anständig hinter sich zu lassen.

Knowing he couldn't go back to