Quotes About Closure

You do not yet understand the God who works in mysterious ways. He decides when it is over.

There is, in the end, the letting go.

In every death, a busy world comes to an end.

No podemos volver jamás sobre nuestros actos pasados, ni siquiera con un reloj en el corazón.

Era la época en que todavía llevaba mi corazón hecho pedazos metidos en una caja de zapatos.

This is so often the way with life. You spend so much time waiting for something – a person, a feeling, a piece of information – that you can't quite absorb it when it is in front of you. The hole is so used to being a hole it doesn't know how to close itself.

And death is the opposite of possibility.

there comes a time when you have to put the dead to rest, Philip. When you have to trust the living instead.

My mind is racing to understand. This is so often the way with life. You spend so much time waiting for something – a person, a feeling, a piece of information – that you can't quite absorb it when it is in front of you. The hole is so used to being a hole it doesn't know how to close itself.

the basis of depression as well as the difference between fear and despair. Fear was when you wandered into a cellar and worried that the door would close shut. Despair was when the door closed and locked behind you.

I need 'closure' as people say these days. Though you can never close the past. The most you can do with it is accept it.

Creep into thy narrow bed,Creep, and let no more be said!

Right when you find yourself not thinking about her at all, there she'll be, right at the end of the story to fuck with your head one last time." She

And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live. She loved the little yellow cottage more than she loved any place on earth. but she was through with it except in her memories.

Things are never over even when they're over.

Il n'y pas de mort. Je peux fermer les yeux, j'aurai mon paradis dans les coeurs qui se souviendront.

I don't need more anger. I just want to move on...

closure, that impossible thing that no one had ever experienced in life, because there always seemed to be a little aperture, a slit of light.

Bad things happen and then they're over, but where do they go?

It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had.

I do not like that I allowed my past to close me off. I do not like that I let circumstances rob me of the ability to have a normal relationship with a man, to have friends, to be happy. I do not like it, but I had felt myself powerless against it.

I closed my eyes against the sudden sorrow that someone I knew so well should be someone who consistently brought me so much grief.

It was the end and he couldn't decide if the truth had been worth telling. All he knew was that it was time to go. Because sometimes doing what was best for someone you loved was more important than taking care of yourself. Because sometimes the things that were never meant to last were what ended up mattering the most. Because sometimes even a door that's always been open has to close.

And I did," Alex said. "I let her go. Because I did love her, and I did want her to be happy." Hart, Megan (2015-03-01). Vanilla (Kindle Location 4400). MIRA. Kindle Edition.