Quotes About Closure

People think the end of a relationship is a bad thing, but it can be a natural thing.

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

A beginning is the end of something, always.

We come to beginnings only at the end.

There are times when you fall in love with a person, and feel like you belong with him or her. But if it doesn't work out, you need to step out of it.

I'm something of a black belt at break-ups. I have had two long-term relationships in my life, both of 10 years, both resulting in children, and both very much over. Things end. It is how you manage them being over that's key.

Mephistopheles: Over! A stupid word. How so over? Over and pure nothing: completely the same thing! "It's over now!" What's that supposed to mean? It's as good as if it never was.

Closure isn't closure until someone's ready to close the door.

Why didn't he say goodbye? I gave myself a bruise. Why didn't he say 'I love you'?

I said, 'I need to know how he died.' He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?' So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing.

En muchos casos de separación el problema no se encuentra en la relación de uno con el otro, sino en asuntos no resueltos de uno de ellos (o de los dos) con su propio pasado.

Aquí nos encontramos al fin y lo que antes ocurrió no tiene sentido.

There is a line by Verlaine that I will not remember again. There is a street nearby that is off limits to my feet. There is a mirror that has seen me for the last time. There is a door I have closed until the end of the world. Among the books in my library (I'm looking at them now) are some I will never open. This summer I will be fifty years old. Death is using me up, relentlessly.

To have another life, one ought to be able to wrap up the first one, and the job should be done neatly.

And that, said John, is that.

A story with a clear ending, happy or sad, is an acceptable story.

I knew what I'd say to him: You're much too late. We went ahead with our lives without you.

There it was, Hema must have thought; it was both the sorry and the thank-you that was so long overdue, and the funny thing was that at this moment, she didn't care. It no longer mattered. She didn't even look his way.

I have not forgotten about the REO Speedwagon incident. No more of that. Never.

I'll never see you again, but that's a note I tear up in my mind.

A man once told me that all books should end at chapter seventy-seven.

I'm not Abdul-Jabbar or Pat Ewing or Mark Eaton. I'm Shawn Bradley and I'm going to do my best each time I step on the court. When the game is over, it's over.

We broke up in '91, but we didn't fade out, we didn't burn ourselves out, we were on pause for 26 years. We stopped at the height, we were No. 1 and we just broke up.

I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That's what gives me peace.