Quotes About Closure

Undeveloped, the whole thing,tossed into a box before we really had a chance to know what we had, and that's why we broke up.

A colleague and friend, Jack Kornfield, has a great way of thinking about this important process: Forgiveness is giving up all hope for a better past. In this way, we forgive not to condone, not to say it was fine, but to let go of false illusions that we can change the past.

Okay" (final words from flight 383)

Series finales have that responsibility to leave you feeling good about entire series. You want to feel like the viewer closes the book satisfied. And if you strike out on the finale it skews how you feel about the entire series.

I can never shut the door on Aston Villa but I think it's blatantly obvious for everyone looking at it that it's done.

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.

I was not so committed to financial success that I was willing to abandon my principles and priorities. One of the most visible examples of this is our decision to close on Sunday.

In the best goodbyes, there's always the feeling that there's something more to say.

I think about how it's the not knowing that torments all of us. Not knowing why your boyfriend left, not knowing what's wrong with your body. Not knowing if you could have saved your son. At a certain point, we all have to come to terms with the unknown and the unknowable. Sometimes we'll never know why.

some point in our lives, we have to let go of the fantasy of creating a better past.

If we don't accept the notion that there's no redo, much as we try to get our parents or siblings or partners to fix what happened years ago, our pasts will keep us stuck.

The final picture in the album was of Aunt Lovey and Uncle Stash, their black-and-white wedding photo. I hated that their picture came last, because it felt like they were saying goodbye.

You think about these words final last never a lot, and there are not many things, when you come right down to it, that you'll be happy to see the end of.

It was time to let go. Some things in life were beyond fixing, and this was one of them.

For the last time they walked side by side to the gate, speaking not a word, as though too much remained to be said and so little time remained to say it.

At some point you have to park your past and put yellow caution tape around it so you don't keep going back to it. Because there's nothing like lounging around in your past and all that self-pity.

L'amour n'a-t-il pas en soi-même sa fin ?

Darwin's ideas are devices for generating data. Darwin's theory opens possibilities for inquiry; Agassiz's closes them.

Don't judge yourself for not being with the person or doing enough for the person while he or she was alive.

You're lying on your deathbed. You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive?

Goodbyes were impossible, unless you didn't realize you were saying them.

En la profunda noche oscura del alma las licorerías y los bares están cerrados. (Del cuento Inmanejable)

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.) [ Said on his deathbed ]