Quotes About Closure

You have to prepare to quit, and this is what I did. I prepared to quit, so on the day that came when I had to walk away from the game, I walked away and didn't look back.

You know, I've done this show for six years, and this could be the first time that I had a person that actually got no points, and I think it's a damn fine way to go out. I thought I was a loser until you walked up here; you made me feel like a man.

Sometimes I feel people can move past what they've grown up around and their surroundings while in a place and some people need closure after they've left and then coming back. I've seen it happen with people I knew growing up that hated each other, and then years later you go home and you see them walking down the street and they have babies.

I am happy and satisfied at the end of my career, but not much. Yes, I would have loved to leave the stage in a better way.

Osama bin Laden is gone. The war in Iraq is over. Afghanistan is coming to a close.

The woman who gave birth to me, I don't have a relationship with. I'm not looking for one, either.

You will find my last words in the blue folder.

Things, for me in Boston, did not end badly.

Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them.

Being a female, I know what it's like to go through a bad break up and not get to say what you really want to.

I don't think breakups are ever easy for anybody. If they are, they aren't much of a breakup.

I can speak for everybody in saying we've all been through a breakup to where you didn't want it to be over.

I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career.

Looking back, it wasn't easy when the news broke that I was leaving Dortmund, but that's behind me now.

Dead things should be buried and not eaten.

I'm actually quite good at being friends with my exes. I'm friends with almost everyone. In fact, everyone! So I let them burn to a certain degree, and then I put out the fire for a while.

In every death, a busy world comes to an end.

A show is like having a climax. It's like having an incredible, natural climax. And then suddenly it's all finished, and you don't know what to do next.

I truly don't know why it was ended, though. It was suddenly decided that that would be it. They never said particularly why, because they were cut off in their prime.

After I wrote 'The Best Of Times' for my dad and after I completed the '12 Steps Suite' with Dream Theater, I very much felt like I had said everything I wanted to say lyrically.

Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.

I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.

We will meet as though we met not and part as though we parted not.

Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.