Quotes About Closure

Then I closed my eyes. That was it. That was Before. Now here we go into After.

You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word.

If you're going to bury the past, bury it deep, girl. Shallow Graves always give up their dead.

This word closure...it is a stupid word, ja? Bach did not believe in closure. Handel did not. Beethoven did not. Only Americans believe in closure because Americans are like little children- easily swindled. Bach believed in making music, ja?

The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the song does actually end, because every song ends, obviously, and THAT. TIME. THE. END. IS. FOR. REAL.

The secret to a happy ending, Mom used to tell us, is knowing when to walk away.

He stood up and we hugged. This is what it was like: like all the parts of me that had been exposed, all my nerves and cells and synapses, were finally again connected. Click. Connor.

Dearest Avery, I'm sorry. —T. T. H.

Between the fire and a storm that night," Alisa said, once she'd recovered, "Toby's remains were never definitively found.

I moved on from Emily," he said. "Gray didn't. And I know in my soul that if he had, he could have loved you. He would have.

I wasn't a big believer in closure. In my experience, both in my life and working with my clients, solid resolutions to conflicts, problems, or grief were elusive. I believed it was more beneficial to recognize emotions and learn to deal with them appropriately; to find ways to live with the loss rather than tie everything up with a neat little bow and pronounce you've had closure.

What would I have said to him if I'd known I would never see him again?

How can something so final happen in an instant? No preparation. No warning. No chance to do all the things you planned to do. No chance to say goodbye.

Angry at him for leaving without a word, angry at myself for being so easy to leave and for not being enough to make him want to stick around.

If you walk away, don't come back. You don't get to do that and come back.

There's a built-in ending to everything in the world, right?

But does forever have a built-in ending...?

Sometimes things end, even if you don't want them to.

I didn't know that my life forever changing would be because you loved me and then left, and in such a final way.

Vous ne le voyez pas, lorsqu'il baisse lentement les paupières, comme pour éteindre ses yeux.

Todo se acaba y nada vuelve a empezar en la vida

I got the sexton, who was digging Linton's grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again—it is hers yet—he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it...

My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.

We never know we go,—when we are going We jest and shut the door; Fate following behind us bolts it, And we accost no more.