Quotes About Closure

There is an art to grieving. To grieve well the loss of anyone or anything--a parent, a love, a child, an era, a home, a job--is a creative act. It takes attention and patience and courage. But many of us do not know how to grieve. We were never taught, and we don't see examples of full-bodied grieving around us. Our culture favors the fast-food model of mourning--get over it quick and get back to work; affix the bandage of "closure" and move on.

Everybody's forgiven you but you. And you are so far behind us." "You might be surprised about that.

He didn't need a magic rabbit to tell him his future, he knew his future because it was already here. This was the happily ever after part. Close the book, put it down, walk away.

it was all behind him, and all that was left was one short street leading straight out of town.

You can't fix it. You can't make it go away.I don't know what you're going to do about it,But I know what I'm going to do about it. I'm justgoing to walk away from it.

Begin at the beginning… and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

How long can human beings ache before their hearts close off the wound?

Once I stopped playing I didn't have the urge or drive to play again.

'Homeland' is necessarily open-ended since the idea behind television is to spend as much time as possible resolving as little as possible, with a story's usual need for resolution replaced by an unrelenting urgency that always defers answers and constantly postpones closure.

I met my birth mother as an adult, but she was always quite vague about my birth father. I knew he had been married to someone else, that he'd had children, but that was about it.

There is no such thing as closure as far as I'm concerned." Julius tossed the contents of another egg into the bowl. "Things are what they are. You deal with reality and move on.

Nada llegó ni llegará ahora al término de su historia.

You shut the door and you pull the curtains and then it's as long as a thousand years and yet so soon ended.

When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in.

I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end.

Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.

There are only three possible endings —aren't there? — to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that.

There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness unblocks the future. (p.225)

He loves books,' said Perdita. 'Yeah. He does. When you've finished a book you can put it away and it doesn't ask to see you again.

If there are only four possible endings to any story – comedy, tragedy, revenge and forgiveness –

The times I thought I had dreamed it were one way of getting rid of it, part of wanting to lose it, part of what you might call a whole Manzanar mentality I had lived with for twenty-five years. Much more than a remembered place, it had become a state of mind. Now, having seen it, I no longer wanted to lose it or to have those years erased. Having found it, I could say what you can only say when you've truly come to know a place: Farewell

Once the fire was out and the sodden, burned tree lay smoldering on the floor, we all just stood there. No one tried to wring Dad's neck or yell at him or even point out that he'd ruined the Christmas his family had spent weeks planning—the Christmas that was supposed to be the best we'd ever had. When Dad went crazy, we all had our own ways of shutting down and closing off, and that was what we did that night.

I live in the past. I take everything that has happened to me and arrange it. From a distance like that, it doesn't do any harm, you'd almost let yourself be caught in it. Our whole story is fairly beautiful. I give it a few prods and it makes a whole string of perfect moments. Then I close my eyes and try to imagine that I'm still living inside it.

I regret that I stayed in my first relationship for too long. I didn't get that it wasn't working out.