Quotes About Closure

No one can resurrect love once it has breathed its last.

Im sorry, I thought it would be better that way. Less painful, to just let it all fade away.

I mean, I knew he'd died but I'd never believed it was permanent

Goodness and happiness were gone for ever and nothing could be retrieved. This was going to end; and end terribly. The last three years had been spent trying to dodge their fate, but it was rushing up to meet them.

As they say in New York, Get over it and, if you can't get over it, Get over talking about it.

Doll always said, Just be quiet. Whatever it is, just wait for it to be over. Everything ends sometime.

la cosa ya no tiene remedio y debemos olvidarla.

ilusión de sintetizar lo real, de resumir la vida. Ese apetito debió verse plenamente colmado con Madame Bovary, ejemplo de obra clausurada, de libro-círculo.

There's no human way to get to it, not even with all the dynamite in the world. So you leave it at that. And you move on.

Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.

Delusion is the mind's tendency to seek premature closure about something. It is the quality of mind that imposes a definition on things and then mistakes the definition for the actual experience.

But I don't feel sad about it. Because Mother is dead. And because Mr. Shears isn't around anymore. So I would be feeling sad about something that isn't real and doesn't exist. And that would be stupid.

What would your mother think about that?" which is stupid because Mother is dead and you can't say anything to people who are dead and dead people can't think.

That morning was the last time I saw Moreland. It was also the last time I had, with anyone, the sort of talk we used to have together. Things drawing to a close, even quite suddenly, was hardly a surprise.

These leave-takings in novels are as disagreeable as they are in real life; not so sad, indeed, for they want the reality of sadness; but quite as perplexing, and generally less satisfactory.

When last days are coming, they should be allowed to come and to glide away without special notice or mention. And as for last moments, there should be none such. Let them ever be ended, even before their presence has been acknowledged.

CHAPTER XXV THE LAST MORNING AT RUFFORD HALL

CHAPTER LXXX CONCLUSION

But all voyages come to an end, either at the shore or at the bottom of the sea

Perhaps it's time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are what's important in life.

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.

When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

Wenn man einem Menschen alles verziehen hat, ist man mit ihm fertig.

When do people ever like it when you write about them? But I had to do something. As I said, from the minute I heard what had happened I could not stop thinking about it. So I did what you do if you're a writer and you're obsessed about something: you turn it into a story that you hope will lay it to rest, or at least help you figure it out what it means. Even if we know from experience that this pretty much never works.