Quotes About Closure

The first time I retired, only Sir Alex Ferguson and I knew that the last league game of the 2010-11 season against Blackpool was to be my final game at Old Trafford. I was a little bit sad, but I am not one for tears. The end of a career comes to us all, and there is not a lot you can do about that.

I do realize that television shows end.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

There would be no more second chances.

I knew what we had was not over, we were not done and we did not know how to make our love end.

while an arrest of the Cowboy might bring the families of his victims justice, it would never bring them closure. Tracy

say she wasn't sincerely happy for me, but with every new beginning, there is an inevitable end we must first accept

The dead don't bury the dead. Only the living can do that.

Have faith in God's will." Then she closed her eyes. They would be the last words she ever spoke to me.

Hemos cerrado Al Watan por el reportaje sobre el presidente —me comunicó—. El redactor fue detenido por otra cosa… sí, está detenido.» Lo están interrogando. También hemos cerrado Al Istiqlal. Han estado implicados en un delito de desinformación.»

With a twist in his chest, and in spite of his satisfaction at having done what he'd set out to do, he wished he could have called Joan, and told her the end of Margot Bamborough's story, and heard her say she was proud of him, one last time.

The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them. Strike had felt the living woman behind the words she had written to friends; he had heard her voice on a telephone held to his ear; but now, looking down on the last thing she had ever seen in her life, he felt strangely close to her.

The only other funeral she'd attended had been four years previously, when she and Strike had attended the cremation of a murdered girl in the course of their first murder investigation,

She knew there were parts of the past you had to let go of, certain lands that were irredeemably lost, sorrowfully lost, but, finally, lost forever.

That's because time brings into play the Fiddle Theory, which states: The longer you fiddle around with a deal, the greater the odds that it will never close.

He stepped fully into the house. The air inside was cool on his skin. He turned, expecting the front door to close on its own. But it stayed open, as it was supposed to. He shook his head, chiding himself for letting an old house spook him. He walked into the kitchen. Behind him, the front door slammed shut.

It was important to keep moving. Certain struggles continued. Others had to be brought to a close. The wisdom was in deciding which.

the end of earthly existence. The coffin, sealed with four

an ending must be both "inevitable and unexpected.

Megan squeezed her eyelids closed, blocking out the darkness that was his hair and the pain of the past.

To say goodbye with all our heart is to turn a parting into a blessing.

We have to say goodbye to everything eventually, and life is punctuated with a thousand goodbyes, some greater, some smaller, all along the way.

Dear Dad: After twenty-two years in the amusement park, this roller coaster isn't fun any more, so I'm getting off the ride. Roger