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Quotes About Closure

He was reluctant to open it, for once such a thing is opened, it cannot be shut again.
~ Alan Paton
The past 6 and a half years have been the most amazing years of my life. It's sad it has come to an end but Avril and I are still family and moving forward in the most positive way possible.
~ Deryck Whibley
Having looked the beast of the past in the eye, having asked and received forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.
~ Desmond Tutu
To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
The only real parting is when there is no love left to part from
~ Dinah Mulock (Mrs. Craik)
But at a certain point we turn round, almost instinctively, and see that a gate has been bolted behind us, barring our way back (...) Then we understand that time is passing and that one day or another the road must come to an end.
~ Dino Buzzati
She understood instinctively that when one was married, love affairs had a natural termination.
~ Dominick Dunne
But there are no happy endings, because if things are happy they have not ended.
~ Donald Hall
Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.
~ Donald Justice
God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don't run after them.
~ Rick Warren
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
~ John Ruskin
One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.
~ Jude Morgan, Indiscretion
We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.
~ Leonard Cohen
In life and love, you learn that there comes a time to let go and move on.
~ Taylor Swift
It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.
~ Thomas Hobbes
And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.
~ Stephen King
Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?
~ John Mayer
The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
~ Sam Peckinpah
Everything has a built in ending
~ Jennifer Niven
What would I have said to him if I'd know I would never see him again?
~ Jennifer Niven
No experimental cures. No life-prolonging – and misery-prolonging – chemotherapy. As far as Colton was concerned, he had made his plans and said his goodbyes and was now letting the tide go out, ever so slightly; the waves came less far up the beach; the sea got further and further from view, bit by bit.
~ Jenny Colgan
The end of a day on which a life has ended is still far from being the end of days.
~ Jenny Erpenbeck
I delete the picture of him from my phone; I delete his number. I think that if I just delete him enough, it will be like none of it ever happened and my heart won't hurt so badly
~ Jenny Han
But I had loved him. I loved him longer and truer than I had anyone in my whole life and I would probably never love anyone that way again. Which to be honest was almost a relief.
~ Jenny Han