Quotes About Closure

Is it an easier farewell for Dad if we don't part friends?

There are some mistakes you can never make up for. There are things you can do wrong you can never do right. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try. You should, but if it becomes clear that you won't succeed, drop it. To force the issue just tortures the people you wronged in the first place. Once you've made your feelings clear, it's better to leave and get on with your life.

Dying is one of those things that can't be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.

Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of calm incuriousness, with nothing left of the barely bearable raw immediacy of childhood, all the things solved that had puzzled me when I was small, all mysteries settled, all questions answered, and the moments dripping away, unnoticed almost, drip by golden drip, toward the final, almost unnoticed, quietus.

We were silent awhile and simply eyeballed one another. "Then there's nothing more to say," I said quietly. "Nothing." I should have cried then, had life not made me a stronger man. It crossed my mind to shake his hand to say goodbye, for it all seemed so final, but I did not. Too much had been said to forgive or see a way to forgiveness.

I am sorry," I whispered. "I am sorry for all of the ways that I failed you. I am sorry that I was not there to save you, or to die alongside you. I am sorry that I have kept you with me for so long, trapped in my heart, bound in sorrow and remorse. I forgive you too. I forgive you for leaving me, and I forgive you for returning. I forgive you your anger, and your grief. Let this be an end to it.

In the end, you have to let things go. The things you regret are the things you hold on to.

The biggest life change any man would ever experience was the ending of it.

Some revelations came only with the sound of dirt falling on a coffin; the ones that mattered, the ones that made for regrets.

And, in the darkness, David closed his eyes as all that was lost was found again.

Amen"—so be it, there is nothing more to be said.

It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.

What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell.

The last day of your life is still going to be a day.

...When I look back on my life's greatest traumas...I see that each one has something in common. No matter how life-shattering they felt at the time, there was an end to them.

Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes.

Forgive the person who has caused the most pain in your life and it will make you feel better.

One of life's minor satisfactions is forgetting.

I get on with all my exes, so there's nothing I need to forget about. I don't know - life is shorter than it seems.

Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.

Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.

The end of a life is always vivifying.

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

Only when we are over, does our real life begin.