Quotes About Closure

How do you unlove somebody?

Americans really believe that the past is past, he writes. They do not care to know that the past soaks the present like the light of a distant star. Things that are over do not end. They come inside us, and seek sanctuary in subjectivity. And there they live on, in the consciousness of individuals and communities. The forward thrust of exuberance, like closure, risks leaving behind an essential past.

we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.

It was that exchange, when we finally mentioned the closing of Hailsham, that suddenly brought us close again, and we hugged, quite spontaneously, not so much to comfort one another, but as a way of affirming Hailsham, the fact that it was still there in both our memories. Then I had to hurry off to my own car.

Then she continued to walk away.

I don't forgive him, I said. Hell, no, you don't. And why should you? So he can feel better? Get on with his life? And what's he done to help you get on with yours?

I understood that now. I wished I could have understood it then. I wished I could have said something in that last moment, before he let go. He'd told me it was okay. His last words to me. Why couldn't they have been my last words to him?

Tell me half a cup's worth of story and we'll call it a night.

hasta que el asunto se haya aclarado.

No puedo creer que lo nuestro vaya a terminar de esta manera.

There's one tiny little gap in the universe left, just about to close. And it takes a lot of power to send this projection. I'm in orbit around a supernova. I'm burning up a sun just to say good bye.

As the day comes to a close and we review what we have tried to do, again there should be that sense of committing everything to God.

Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.

But remember, continuing a wrong relationship only increases the pain when it finally does end.

The fact is that you can't have a good relationship with a girl who hasn't settled things with her father.

As you experience love and relationships, you start to realize that love tends to end in a very painful goodbye.

Sometimes when you say goodbye, that's the right thing to do in a relationship.

You gave me reason to believe that we were always meant to be, but now I see you were wrong, you can't keep running back to me with all them baby baby please, No More.

Once a relationship is done, it's done. You can't do that back and forth thing.

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

The end of anything is not fun because there's a nostalgia to it and everything else. Even the end of a bad relationship can feel so, so, so sad.

Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door.

Forgive me for needing you to be strong forever. Forgive me for fearing your unhappiness. As you suffer so I shall suffer. As you endure so I shall endure. Hold my hands and walk the old walk one last time, then let me go.

He that dies pays all his debts.