Quotes About Closure

One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters – whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished.

If you say it was the last time, it might well turn out to be the last. What you meant was the most recent time I was here.

When you close that door to nowhere throw away the key, we have a tendency to look back and regret

We have 2 big problems here: 1] knowing when to start 2] knowing when to stop

Je ne veux plus avoir affaire à mes propres ténèbres, me suis-je promis à moi même, fermant définitivement la porte au nez de l'Autre. Une chute de troisième étage fait tout autant de dégâts qu'une chute du centième étage.

Real, lasting closure is never secured through retribution or retaliation.

Why was everyone so interested in her now? When it was too late to change anything? What was the point?

Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.

Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.

We also need to learn the art of letting go: of the past, of unresolved grievances, of our younger selves. Nobody gets out of here alive.

It is because everything must come to an end that everything is so beautiful.

I'll be seeing you later, Millie," and Mildred had nodded and not needed to blink back tears because those tears were so deep inside of her that it would take years for the grief to make its way to her eyes.

That I don't feel upset by us really being over almost trivializes how special and intense our relationship once was.

Things sometimes did not work out. Even if you wanted them to more than anything else. You couldn't will someone to love you back. You had to move on.

man had heard all he needed to. It was time

one last look around and

Tush, man! praise the day when the sun has set.

What's done cannot be undone.

All's well that ends well.

The rest, is silence.

Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.

What's done, is done

Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the Dark.

I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book!