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Quotes About Closure

therapy, a quick assuagement. But there
~ Ruth Rendell
Järjestelmään liittyy sulkeutuvuus, mutta olemassaolo on jotakin täsmälleen päinvastaista.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
~ Salman Rushdie
Sometimes it's just over and you can't make it all right. Justification by works: an overrated idea.
~ Salman Rushdie
What shuts you up is, I think, the sight you've had of perfection: why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences? It feels like a betrayal of what you've been through. But it fades; you accept that certain compromises, closures, are required if you're to continue.
~ Salman Rushdie
The past is a broken cardboard suitcase full of photographs of things I no longer wish to see.
~ Salman Rushdie
While we may never achieve closure in our view of the world, it seems extraordinarily likely that our descendants will look upon many of our beliefs as both impossibly quaint and suicidally stupid.
~ Sam Harris
I'm quite detached from failure and success. Once a shooting is done, I kind of close that chapter in my life.
~ Ranbir Kapoor
No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out.
~ Merle Shain
There are words which close a conversation as with an iron door.
~ Alexandre Dumas
maintenant tu ne peux plus m'offrir ni joies, ni douleurs. Adieu, Paris ! adieu !
~ Alexandre Dumas
Hi ha paraules que tanquen una conversa com una porta de ferro.
~ Alexandre Dumas
You can't go back and you can't catch up. Happy endings are always bittersweet.
~ Alfred Bester
Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.
~ Alice Hoffman
Your grief won't go away; it's not a door you can close,or a book you can put back on the shelf,or a kiss you can give back once it's given. This is the way the world is now. Keep the worst things to yourself, like a bone in your throat.
~ Alice Hoffman
I didn't understand that when I closed myself to her, I took a part of her bitterness inside me. It was green and unforgiving, and as it grew it made me more like her. It gave me my strength, but it gave me my weakness as well.
~ Alice Hoffman
Don't cry while you are reading the book wait until you are done reading it.
~ Alice Hoffman
You cannot unwrite a death that has been written.
~ Alice Hoffman
Things without all remedy should be without regard
~ Alice Hoffman
Those of us lucky enough to make it through the multitude of possible diseases and accidents get old. We get tired. We close our eyes." "And then? Where are we then?" Silly to ask him as though he knew, but in fact the doctor didn't hesitate. He took Elinor's hand and placed it on his chest, in the place where he knew his heart to be. "There.
~ Alice Hoffman
sometimes the right thing felt all wrong until it was over and done with.
~ Alice Hoffman
IT WASN'T EASY TO walk away from the past, even when you locked it up in a box for which there was no key. Memories rattle around late at night, they claw at the latch, escaping when you least expect them to do so.
~ Alice Hoffman
It was not possible to hold on to ashes. In my dreams I had always walked out of the past, and it shut behind me, a door I couldn't unlock. Now I intended to do the same in my waking life.
~ Alice Hoffman
I no longer cared if my mother disliked me. I didn't understand that when I closed myself to her, I took a part of her bitterness inside me. It was green and unforgiving, and as it grew it made me more like her. It gave me my strength, but it gave me my weakness as well.
~ Alice Hoffman